Abstract:
Lives and livelihoods in the central belt of India has traversed a difficult terrain as
the indigenous tribes had a constant tryst with the changing environment on
political, ecological as well as socio-economic fronts. For years together the tribal
groups in villages of Dantewada district have gone through turbulent times due to
socio economic impact of mining and changes in forest rights and today they have
started moving towards “local ownership” and “self-sustainability” through the
new age of social entrepreneurship i.e. Bhoomgaadi Organic Farmers Producer
Company (BOFPC). It was born in 2016 as a ray of hope, amidst the gloom of
agricultural crisis that had engulfed most parts of the Indian agricultural economy.
The case tries to highlight the inherent challenges existing for the tribal farmers in
the current ecosystem and the solutions put forth by BOFPC in terms of approach
of promoting FPC, participatory governance, management and business planning
as per the resource endowments and use of conventional knowledge. The case
further highlights the importance of 3 C’s – Collaboration, Convergence and
Collection Action leads to the development of the sense of belongingness and
ownership among the members of the BOFPC.
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
