He is the chairperson of the North East Slow Food and Agro bio di ver sity Society in Shillong. This article is excerpted from his speech at the Inter na - tional Conference on Poverty and Vul nerability in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, at ICMOD in Nepal on December 1, 2013
Beyond techno fixes
Vulnerable people can be agents of change, not mere recipients of assistance