Mihir Shah

Distinguished Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities
, Shiv Nadar University
Profile / Bio: 

Mihir is a co-founder of Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), one of India's largest grassroots initiatives for water and livelihood security, which works with 122 partners on a million acres of land across 72 districts in 12 states.

He was adviser to the commissioner appointed by the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food case from 2002 to 2009. Mihir has combined 20 years of living and working at the grassroots level with academic research and policy advocacy. He has received national and international recognition for his work, including the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the American India Foundation and the Doreen Mashler Award of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.

Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topic
Rural Distress 09 March 2021 Document Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
Tackling Rural Distress in the 21st Century: A New Trans-Disciplinary Multi-stakeholder Paradigm of Development 29 October 2019 Slides Agriculture and Natural Resources
Tackling Rural Distress in the 21st Century: A New Trans-Disciplinary Multi-stakeholder Paradigm of Development 29 October 2019 Document Agriculture and Natural Resources