No Poverty

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Technology · Agriculture

Ecozen Ecofrost: the battery-free solar cold room built for India's smallholders

Three IIT Kharagpur graduates asked why a farmer should sell tomatoes cheap just because there is nowhere cool to keep them. Their answer, Ecofrost, is a farm-gate cold room that runs on sunlight and stores cold rather than electricity, so it needs neither a grid connection nor a battery. Twelve years on, the Pune company behind it has grown into a profitable climate-tech business with revenue above Rs 1,000 crore.

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Technology · Food

S4S Technologies Solar Conduction Dryer: turning India's unsold harvest into income for women

When tomato prices crash, Indian farmers often leave crops to rot because harvesting costs more than the market pays.

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Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software

Fathom Global Flood Map: the Bristol flood model that maps river, rain and coastal flooding for every place on Earth

Floods cause more damage than almost any other natural hazard, yet for much of the world nobody can say which streets, farms or factories will go under in a 1 in 100 year storm, let alone in a warmer climate.

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Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry

ITC clonal saplings: high-yield tree clones that turned Indian farmland into a pulpwood supply

Disease-resistant tree clones grown by the million at a nursery in Telangana and sold to farmers, who grow them on their own land and sell the wood back for paper and board.

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Planetary engineering · Geological interventions

Mati Carbon: the XPRIZE winner spreading Deccan basalt on India's rice paddies

Mati gives smallholder farmers crushed basalt from nearby quarries for free, sells the carbon removal it measures, and leaves the extra rice to the farmers. In 2025 it won the USD 50 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal grand prize.

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