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We believe system-level change can be achieved when learnings are shared without hesitation, judgement, fear or pride.
The Power of Agri-Data By All, For All
When our work on crowdsourcing price data halted trade in an agricultural market! On February 2, I woke up to frantic calls at 4 am from...
Nabilah Noorani
4 min read
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Matar
Perceiving several limitations of our WhatsApp chatbot, an android application called ‘Matar’ is combining the power of peer-to-peer...
Achint Sanghi
4 min read
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Rethinking Compensation and Support at Gramhal
Last week, one of my colleagues and I were having a standup on a product that he had been working tirelessly on for over the past six...
Vikas Birhma
7 min read
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8 Principles to Radically Approach Digital Agri-Information Services
At Gramhal, we believe that existing systems of digital agriculture information services are lacking in transformative impact that...
Vikas Birhma
4 min read
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Yes, Transformative Impact Through Digital Agri Information Services is Possible.
Digital agricultural information service has rarely delivered a transformational impact for farmers. But Gramhal advocates that it is...
Vikas Birhma
5 min read
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At scale, who will pay? Market failure, government failure, and a need for new business models
Over time, hundreds of digital agri-information services have been implemented, but rarely have any achieved a respectable scale. One can...
Vikas Birhma
4 min read
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Five Learnings That Shaped Bolbhav
Over the past three years, Gramhal experimented with multiple solutions, each informing the next. We believe in rapid iterations that...
Vikas Birhma
4 min read
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Understanding Three Years of Gramhal Through Nine Experiments
Gramhal is a tech non-profit developing a suite of digital solutions for smallholder farmers. We aim to end the data divide for farmers...
Vikas Birhma
3 min read
213 views
A Simple Framework for Complex Decision-Making
Tasked with making a critical decision for the umpteenth time, Gramhal recently utilised an important principle of MECE, which stands for...
Achint Sanghi
3 min read
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UX design reflections: Reimagining the imagined
Numeric Code Poster Design for Agricultural Markets of Central India. At Gramhal, we understand that design thinking is a non-linear...
Ayanima
4 min read
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For Farmers, agency means choice
Expanding the range of choices available to the farmer on when, where, and at what price to sell, should be part of the ongoing...
Vikas Birhma
5 min read
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Emotional Intelligence muscle – An essential ingredient in becoming an effective social change-maker
“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,...
Simeen Kaleem
8 min read
659 views
Fixing what's broken inside, before we fix what's broken outside
Prioritizing wellbeing of change-makers As an organization that aims to bring about social change, our work is difficult and demands deep...
Simeen Kaleem
6 min read
621 views
The tiring work of getting the hiring right!
How we failed and innovated hiring. We recently hired three great team members for our core team at Gramhal. By the end of the hiring...
Simeen Kaleem
4 min read
444 views
Responding to the pandemic as an early-stage startup
When we founded Gramhal, the most important question that loomed at us was – from which location should we start? Our founding team came...
Simeen Kaleem
4 min read
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