About Us
Ecociate is a knowledge-based organization that ideates, conceptualizes, and catalyses solutions through community co-creation and business modelling for social as well as corporate organizations. We aim to integrate innovation and sustainability into business models for enhancing quality of life, fostering inclusive development, and securing economic gains for underserved communities.
We bring unique skill sets to understand, map, and analyse needs of community, social and corporate organizations and offer customized sustainable solutions. Our insights and rich experience on low-income, marginalized and vulnerable communities drive our sustainable solutions around food systems transformation, regenerative agriculture, agroecology, agro-biodiversity, organic farming, sustainable aquaculture, climate change, inclusive market systems, FPO management, enterprise development, gender and resilience.
We believe that collaboration between public and private sectors unlocks the latent potential of each sector, while ensuring shared value and sustainable progress for all. Committed to inclusive growth, Ecociate has developed instruments to design inclusive solutions, equitable opportunities and resources for marginalized communities as well as businesses by leveraging India’s mammoth social capital, organized into SHGs, FPOs, and Cooperatives etc.
Purpose
To innovate sustainable solutions that harmonize ecology, economy, and ecosystems resulting in enhancing quality of life at the Bottom of the Pyramid and benefiting relevant stakeholders with a win-win proposition.
Guiding Principles
The world is relentlessly working towards:
* Finding sustainable solutions to reduce impacts of Climate Change on agri and allied sectors and related livelihoods
* Including poor and vulnerable communities, and empowering them to participate in the change
* Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food.
Ecociate has chosen to be part of this forward momentum by
* Crafting solutions by adhering to Triple Bottom Lines
* Co-creating landscape-oriented pathways with communities/community institutions, policy makers, private sector and consumers etc. for safe and nutritious food
Strengthening farmers’ collectives by instilling good governance, leveraging social infrastructure, upgrading technology, market linkages through bottom-up participatory business planning and periodic hand holding.