This policy brief highlights the value of agroforestry as an important source of bioenergy for households and small-scale industries; identifies market, production and labour constraints; and showcases the significance of improved cookstoves, briquettes and biogas infrastructure in enabling concurrent food and fuel production. Photo: Michael Mallya / Pixabay Biomass is often viewed as a primitive ...

Image credit: iStock Breaking ‘the vicious cycle’ for smallholder farmers Founders Madhur Jain (CEO), Ankita Garg (COO) and Vishal Kuchanur (CTO) all have backgrounds in agriculture (in addition to biotech and software), which propelled them to start the company in 2022. Varaha named itself after the avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu, best known for lifting ...