“It was a turning point for me,” said Ruchi Jain, Founder and CEO of Taru Naturals, about her trip to the villages of small-scale farmers in India struggling with the effects of climate change. “I realized that if you want to make a big impact on the world, you have to be grassroots based—it has to be a movement.” Since then, Jain has grown Taru Naturals into a fair-trade network connecting over 10,000 tribal and small-scale organic farmers across India to the resources and training they need to grow climate-resilient crops and markets to sell their products.
Read ANDE's break-down of recent IPCC reports to find out why SGB's should be at the center of the global fight against climate change.
Invite-only event
9:30 - Registration
10:00 - Program begins
11:15 - Networking
Read ANDE's break-down of recent IPCC reports to find out why SGB's should be at the center of the global fight against climate change.
The two winning projects will focus on finding solutions to the lack of capital for climate entrepreneurs in India.