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Leaders within India’s plastics industry are looking into ways of improving the country’s recycling system and infrastructure. Though the government passed solid...

Rising Tide Fair Trade is a new company working with artisans in West Bengal India to produce weekend bags and other purses...

A recent World Bank study indicates that the best way forward in powering rural India is through decentralized distribution channels. The study...

Recent research by market research firm TechSci Research has indicated that India’s rural markets will be the next “frontier” for consumer goods...

In collaboration with the national government, the Uttar Pradesh state government held a workshop in UP in early January to promote bamboo...

In efforts to increase digital penetration across India, it seems that organizations across the non-profit, private, and public sector are starting new...

India-based Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO) recently won an award from the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation for its work in developing solar...

Embrace is a new cost-effective infant warmer, which targets bottom-of-the-pyramid families that have premature babies or those with low birth weights. The...

High growth in the export of Indian handicrafts could benefit artisans across the country. Though products have traditionally been exported to the...

International microfinance organization, Accion, and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, have invested in Vindhya e-Infomedia, a business process outsourcing firm. Based...

A model that has brought safe, filtered drinking water to over 70,000 people in Nepal, is expanding to India. Village Forward, a...

A few years ago, Mumbai-based Piramal Foundation established Source for Change, the first all-women BPO in India. In doing so, the organization...

Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network has provided The Foundation for Ecological Security with a grant of $2.1 million to be disbursed over...

An Indian doctor trained in the UK is planning to open a 300-bed low-cost, high-quality heart hospital in South Indian state Karnataka...

Ecopreneurist highlights Re-wrap, a UK-based social enterprise that works with low-income communities in India to create high-quality recycled and reusable textile products....

Vishnu Swaminathan, Director of the Ashoka Foundation, discusses some of the problems with low-cost housing solutions in big metros such as Delhi...

Organic farming is relatively new to India, having only gained some traction seven years ago. Organic produce demands a 10-20% premium for...

A research paper by Doctoral researcher Priyanka Jayashankar and an Associate Professor Robert Goedegeburrre focuses on the potential for inclusive value chains...

Washington D.C. based Ashoka Innovators for the Public is set to work with a large network of social entrepreneurs, NGOs, international and...

India’s Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) has designed training modules specifically on microfinance given the recent developments in Andhra Pradesh and...

Less than two years old, Eco-Save India, is a renewable energy service provider that fits residential, industrial, commercial, and public buildings with...

Mansukh Jagani, from Gujarat was named one of India’s seven most powerful rural Indians by Boston-based Forbes magazine. Jagani first developed the...

Indian social venture capital firm Aavishkaar Venture Management has recently invested in Insight and Intellect Farms, an Indian horticulture company that promotes...

The Hindu discusses challenges for farmers in actually reaping the benefits of sales of perishable commodities such as fruits and vegetables. In...

The Centre for Social Development in Jaipur, Rajasthan, provides vocational training and non-formal education to low-income women in order to teach them...

Aavishkaar India, an early-stage venture capital firm, is looking to complete the fundraising process for its fourth and largest fund, likely to...

In a move to promote financial inclusion in rural India, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) is collaborating with public sector bank, the State...