Why do we not do investment pitches in the beginning, say in the first half of our tenures?
Can we offer patient capital to micro-meso-macro start-ups, enterprises – partnership finance, equity, and risk capital? Can we give them wings?
Surla Venkata Naidu, Sadgati.
Natural Farming in Telangana: Farmers are coming in, in a trickle. NGOs are joining hands in a small way. Some Community Resource Persons are going to other states to help. Consumers want NF produce. Philanthropies are getting ready to respond. Government of India is ready to respond. Are there signs of the Government warming up?
Rythu Sadhikara Samstha – AP Community-managed Natural farming is one of the most disruptive innovations (social) as part of Innovation for India 2023 by Marico Innovation Foundation. Others include CoWin (Global Game Changer), Dhruva Space (aerospace), Ishitva Robotic Systems (waste separation), Dozee (contactless health monitor in ICU), Qure AI (early detection of abnormality in lungs and brain using x-ray and CT scan), India Development Review (information and knowledge platform for development community), and Khushi Baby (digital integrated community healthcare platform). The winners are selected from 500+ entries, based on four pillars – uniqueness, impact, scalability and sustainability. These are considered the world’s first solutions, in some sense. Rajiv Kumar, former VC, NITI Aayog presented the award to APCNF Leadership.
Chemical-free regenerative nature mimicking natural farming offers a way forward to face the existential crises in farming in terms of production/productivity, livelihoods, soil nutrient integrity, biodiversity and global warming, and climate emergency. We need to transit to NF 365-day green cover with multi-layered multiple crops of diversity quickly, substantially, and worldwide. We need a cultural shift in farmer and consumer mindsets. This is about scaling behaviour change, through some kind of de-addiction methods. Can we stop looking at chemicals as a necessary evil? Can we ensure continued exposure to NF practices and principles to the transformed? Can we ensure a fair share in the value chains, fair payment for the carbon/eco-credits, and a fair share in the subsidies saved for the transformed? Can we transfer transformation ownership to communities? Do not we see a tipping point, maybe 30-40%, in a location/geography, after which NF makes strides towards becoming a default farming?
Can we afford NOT to do it?
Why do we see deviant behavior in individuals, families, teams and organizations? Maybe motive (greed, pressure, fear, need, etc.); maybe opportunity – lack of oversight, lack of controls, checks and balances, lack of reviews and internal, concurrent, statutory audits, automation, daily reconciliation, data access controls, finance policy, etc.; or maybe rationalization – not aware, benefit of the organization/team, following instructions, no alternative, etc.; or hubris – normal rules do not apply to ‘some privileged’. Is it not an exaggeration, inflated figures, a problem we should not tolerate? Don’t we need a forensic audit? Can we have a black commando team screen these? To screen them out.
Can we be intimate, physically, socially, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually? With our partners? Intimacy gives longer life. It heals skin blemishes. It is a workout. It is the stimulation of a significant portion of the nervous system. It increases immunity. It increases bonding. It connects at a deeper level. It syncs with each other spiritually. Can we co-exist?
Anything valuable, and worthwhile takes time, energy, effort and patience. This would mean we need to like the journey. Can we co-travel? Only then, we go the long haul. Can we make sense of this?
Yes, we can. Being together is our default. We can transit to our default. To co-travel. The flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of default coexistence co-living co-action in nature – nityasatyayoga for 7L.
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