I work at the intersection of agriculture & food systems, women’s economic empowerment, rural development, and private sector participation across South, Southeast Asia and Africa.
For more than a decade I have worked with small-scale farmers, women-led enterprises, and government programs trying to answer one question: Why does development so rarely and slowly reach the people it is designed for?
This platform is where I think out loud about that question. And others.
Recent Posts
- Nani ka gharLast weekend, we took our daughter to Ameen for the first time. Ameen is my mother’s ancestral village in Kurukshetra district, Haryana. The government renamed it Abhimanyupur. Abhimanyu, the young… Read more: Nani ka ghar
- Saanp Ka chattaLast weekend my partner and I went to Cafe Athyeka 2.0 in Noida. It was our first dinner date after the birth of our daughter. It was fun. Anyone reading… Read more: Saanp Ka chatta
- Shared struggles, different contexts: The case for rethinking South-South collaborationIn recent years, I have noticed that donor interest in South-South collaboration has grown significantly. Foundations, bilateral agencies, and multilateral institutions are funding programs that aim to transfer solutions, and… Read more: Shared struggles, different contexts: The case for rethinking South-South collaboration
- A story of people’s movement: ThimmapurNote: I have written this case study in 2015 during my time as a Young Professional at the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Telangana. It was developed with… Read more: A story of people’s movement: Thimmapur
- Donor-funded captive engagement: The agtech problem?I have sat in many programme review meetings to know how this story mostly ends. A development programme partners with an agtech. Farmers are onboarded. Advisory messages are sent. App… Read more: Donor-funded captive engagement: The agtech problem?
Shivanshu Sharma 