Development often comes at the cost of nature. We need rural development to take place, but not in the template that has driven industrialisation. Thanks to the research and practice undertaken over the past few decades, there is a body of knowledge on sustainable practices. 

These practices are often known only to the CSOs or practitioners who engage with them daily. They should be made available to all who need them. This can be enabled only by packaging them as services that those who require them can avail themselves of. 

The Green Rural Economy (GRE) endevours to work on both sides of the problem. On the one hand, helping farmers, CSOs, CRPs, and other stakeholders define their problems and disaggregate them so that they can be solved one issue at a time. On the other hand, we help practitioners and solution providers package their solutions in the form of playbooks and training courses. In addition to this, if the service has to be provided end-to-end, we enable that as well.

The goal of the initiative is to enable the discovery of solutions needed for sustainable rural growth.

This is an initiative that has been co-created with Rainmatter Foundation and Partners