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Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: The case of Punjab, India

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Title Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: The case of Punjab, India
 
Creator Groot, AE
Bolt, JS
Jat, Hanuman S.
Jat, Mangi Lal
Kumar, M.
Agarwal, T
Blok, V.
 
Subject food security
agriculture
climate change
 
Description Many Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) technologies fail to achieve their full potential impact due to low levels of adoption by smallholder farmers and difficulties in scaling CSA. This paper presents how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can act as change agents for the uptake of CSA technologies where their business models may be seen as adoption and scaling mechanisms. Drawing upon our fieldwork in Punjab (India) during which over 100 respondents have been interviewed, critical issues and enabling factors for the business model of two types of SMEs, i.e. farmer cooperatives and individual service providers of climate smart technologies have been identified. Enabling factors supporting adoption are driven by scientific and practical evidence of CSA technologies, good partnership between SMEs and research institutes, good customer relationships and effective channels through farmers' field trials. Critical issues consist of distortive government subsidies on energy and the lack of market intelligence affecting the profitability of the business model. Scaling is enhanced through market intelligence and a favouring regulatory landscape. However, difficult socio-economic circumstances and distortive government subsidies limit the role of SMEs business model as mechanism for scaling.
 
Date 2019-02-10
2019-03-13T16:15:42Z
2019-03-13T16:15:42Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Groot AE, Bolt JS, Jat HS, Jat ML, Kumar M, Agarwal T, Blok V. 2019. Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: The case of Punjab, India. Journal of Cleaner Production 210:1109-1119.
0959-6526
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100278
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618334541?via%3Dihub
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.054
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1109-1119
 
Source Journal of Cleaner Production