Rajendra Shende

Providing strategic direction and overall guidance to TERRE Policy Centre, dedicated to developing and promoting sustainable solutions to two major developmental imperatives i.e. food and energy security. • Encouraging evidence-based policy recommendations. • Promoting pilot projects in the ‘societal laboratories’ to give realistic and practical dimension to the concept of Sustainable Development of the local communities. • Fostering the action-oriented education among youths in the area of social business. • Raise awareness on the linkages between bio-diversity and food security; energy and environment; innovation and sustainable development. • Persuading the youth to respect the ecosystem, the private sector to value it, and those at the bottom-of -the pyramid to leverage it for their sustainable development. • Demonstrate through the examples that "To think is good but to act is better”. • Developing out-of-box environmental projects through partnership with the private sector, media, universities , schools and local NGOs.