VINAY GUPTA

Our goal is simple - to remake the "lifestyle niche" of the smallholder organic farmers who comprise half of the human population into something which is healthy, prosperous, stable, environmentally benign, and includes health care and health maintenance, access to energy and education, and many other improvements. The bedrock of this transformation is appropriate technology deployed as whole systems, not as the stand-alone stepwise improvements of the past which have had such mixed success... History is on our side. The development of new technologies like ever-more-affordable solar panels and ICT (information and communication technologies) extends our reach every single day. Our goal, then, is to work with these underlying trends to maximize progress in the regions where it is needed most: to go to where the poverty is deepest, and stabilize and improve life there... I believe that we have located a genuinely balanced and stable solution which is socially responsible,..