From understanding a place to building an economy.
How we work
- 01
Understand
We start by understanding a place as a whole: its land and water, its infrastructure, its local economy and the people who know it best. Nothing is designed until the whole system is understood.
In BalaghattaInterviews, group discussions and workshops with farmers, women and children across a Panchayat of thirteen clusters.
- 02
Design
With the community and our partners, we look for interventions that strengthen one another. The question is not only what to build, but which combination of systems will create lasting change.
In BalaghattaThe land, the houses and the household economy are designed as one programme rather than three.
- 03
Organise
We set up the structures that let people take part in the work, own it and coordinate it, shaped to each place rather than copied from the last one.
In BalaghattaA farmer-owned cooperative that puts subsidies, loans, markets, training and inputs behind one counter, with equal numbers of women and men from its first assembly.
- 04
The Power of Synchronised Action
Instead of a single project, we develop a portfolio of small ventures that feed each other, from agriculture, housing and construction to energy, water, circular materials, local production and market access.
In BalaghattaTwo legally defined enterprises in the first year, growing into self-sustaining enterprises under one cooperative umbrella.
- 05
Match capital
Each venture gets the finance that suits its timeline: patient capital, blended finance, commercial capital, public funding or carbon-market instruments, in the combination it needs.
In BalaghattaGovernment agreements unlock existing schemes in the first year; concessional capital funds the expansion in the second.
- 06
Keep value local
Ventures stay owned by the communities that create them, so income and decisions stay in the place, while the model remains free to travel.
In BalaghattaFarmers hold the majority of the shares, and household income is planned to rise from ₹40,000 to ₹400,000 by year six.
The System
Nine layers, one coordinated model.
Each layer shapes the next. Agami designs and finances them together rather than in isolation.
Place
- 01
Land
Where every system begins: soil, slope, boundary and use.
- 02
Water
What the land can hold, and what it gives back.
- 03
Energy
The input that decides what can be made locally.
People
- 04
Housing
Shelter as infrastructure, not an afterthought.
- 05
Livelihoods
Work that keeps people in the places they are from.
- 06
Community
Governance held by the people inside the system.
Economy
- 07
Enterprise
Local ventures that own what they build.
- 08
Capital
Finance matched to the pace of regeneration.
- 09
Regeneration
The point where the whole system compounds.
In practice
Panchayat of the Future
Balaghatta, India
A dryland Panchayat of thirteen clusters, where the approach is being proven one cluster at a time: the land, the homes and the household economy, built as one cooperative.
13
clusters in one Panchayat
260+
households by year six
50/50
women and men from the first assembly