{"id":2011,"date":"2017-03-06T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2017-03-06T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:19:42","slug":"this-social-entrepreneur-is-transforming-rural-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/06\/this-social-entrepreneur-is-transforming-rural-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"This Social Entrepreneur is Transforming Rural Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/288757\">https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/288757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arun Nagpal, Co-founder of\u00a0Mrida,\u00a0provides business models to provide energy solutions to remote rural villages to\u00a0supports cultivation and collection of high-value crops, plants\u00a0and herbs, promotes healthy products and traditional Indian medicine to the consumer. In this manner, people are able to become aware of the realities of rural India and see the benefits of traditional medicine that can truly affect these communities. Using the principles of social entrepreneurship, Nagpal is able to approach these problems from a grassroots level. What I found was the most interesting part of the article was when Arun Nagpal states, \u201cMore than 200 million people in India lack access to energy today, and depend primarily on kerosene for their lighting requirement. Energy access is known to be a tool for development \u2013 key development initiatives such as education, livelihoods, women\u2019s empowerment, and so on can be facilitated using energy access. Being a predominantly agrarian economy, it is unlikely that holistic development of rural India can become a reality without involvement in agriculture.&#8221; Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/288757 Arun Nagpal, Co-founder of\u00a0Mrida,\u00a0provides business models to provide energy solutions to remote rural villages to\u00a0supports cultivation and collection of high-value crops, plants\u00a0and herbs, promotes healthy products and traditional Indian medicine to the consumer. In this manner, people are able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/06\/this-social-entrepreneur-is-transforming-rural-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}