Swati Renunchintala

Swati Renunchintala is a development professional working in sustainable food systems, climate change and scale thinking. She is an Associate Scientist with World Agroforestry Centre, and Thematic Lead for Andhra Pradesh community-managed natural farming (APCNF). Working closely with Vijay Kumar, Co-Vice Chairman of Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, she oversees APCNF’s national and international partnerships to make available their effective climate resilient methods to other regions and cultures. She describes passionately the secular movement of women’s self-help groups which are collectively transforming the food they grow, their families’ health, and increasing their income. They are the largest transition to agroecology in the world, simultaneously addressing rural livelihoods, nutritious food, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, climate change, water scarcity and pollution. Their True Cost Accounting measures social capital: collective action, trust and support, community cohesion (including confronting domestic violence).

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