Anish Kumar

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Anish is Co-lead at Transform Rural India. Previously, he was part of the senior management team at PRADAN, a rural development nonprofit. His areas of expertise include creating business organisations run by poor communities and facilitating participation of smallholder farmers in modern value chains. Anish was involved in developing a smallholder poultry model, which has emerged as the largest family poultry network in India with a turnover of USD 56 million. He chairs the National Smallholder Poultry Development Trust.


Articles by Anish Kumar


group of people standing in front of a wall which has a slogan about social distancing painted on it-NGOs

May 24, 2021
What can nonprofits do to tackle COVID-19 in central India?
The window of opportunity to stop preventable deaths is narrow, but doable. Here are some steps that nonprofits can take to tackle rising COVID-19 cases in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh.
farmer couple tending to their field_BRLF

November 26, 2020
Rural livelihood nonprofits must reinvent themselves
We will need to embrace technology and markets, and improve farmer incomes exponentially to stay relevant in a rapidly changing agriculture sector.
farmer working on a field in orissa-rural india

May 14, 2020
The future of rural India post-COVID-19
Post the crisis, we will need to repurpose our rural strategy, focusing on place-based economic opportunities, better services and rural infrastructure, and ensuring security and dignity of labour.
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November 12, 2019
Public school runaways
Jobs crisis in rural India

October 17, 2019
Are livelihoods nonprofits losing their relevance?
With young India's needs being better served by the market today, nonprofits run the risk of being crowded out by social businesses.
Two girls holding a football in the air

November 22, 2017
Making convergence work
Practitioners and donors in development have increasingly realised the importance of adopting a multi-intervention or convergence approach. This article looks at why it hasn't worked in the past, and explores what can be done differently now.
young boy walking on a bridge

September 21, 2017
Creating the resilience to dream
What will it take for the next generation of Indians to have the same set of opportunities as the privileged urban-born in our country?
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