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Summary of
proceedings Themewise
1. The Farmer’s View
Small Scale
Producers
Producers as Market
The Leaky Bucket
2. State, Development & Social Sector
Role of State and other
state
actors
Resources
Indispensable role
Support Roles
3. Our Work vis-à-vis the State
Role of International
Agencies
4. Institutions at the Local Level
Govt. Facilitation
Organisation
Cooperatives
SHGs
Producer Groups
5. Different Approaches & Experiments
to Market
Rice Credit Line,
Employment Guarantee Linked to Rice
credit line
Local Market for Local Produce
Just Change: Producer-Consumer Links
Creating
Brands/Modern Marketing
Product Design
Services
6. Building the Local Economy
Government Policies which
go
against
Localism
7. Follow up Ideas for the Network
Decisions made in General
Session
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Full-text of
proceedings speeches
Introduction
the
role of the state, distinguishing its role as regulator, and its role
as provider; and the differing role of the other agencies -
facilitating field agencies, technical and financial support
agencies, and aid agencies; – which are the critical areas their
support is needed. Is this being met?
Moderator: Arun
Raste
Panel: Ajit
Ranade, K Parvati, G
Muralidhar, T
Shastry, Stan
Thekaekara
Facilitating Market Access
and Capacitating Producer Groups:
key critical reflections on enhancing
capacities of the producer group and the marketing set-up: on the
institutional framework, governance, ownership, control, and sharing
of costs, benefits; business development strategies, clarity
on differing roles, and the long term distinction between production
and marketing roles, …
Moderator: Arun
Raste
Panel: K S Gopal,
G Sohani, M Pradhan, G V K Gopal, Varsha M, Vikas
Mehta
Reaffirming Bioregionalism:
Focus on the understanding that one has
about the local economy, the local market, and the place of the
producer group / marketing set-up in this; the role of the niche
one’s products may have in the domestic urban / export market, and
how this fits or is expected to fit in the overall perspective of
market access for local producer groups.
Moderator: R
Murali
Panel: DDS, CSA, CRISP,
Timbaktu, Just Change, Rajni,
John
Groups: Moderators
KS
Gopal; Praveen Mahajan; Rama Raju; Ramanjaneyulu
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