Nidhi is Co-Founder of Science for Society – S4S Technologies. Nidhi works at the intersection of agriculture, gender, energy access and financial inclusion. At S4S she leads – Finance and Partnerships.
S4S Technologies provides smallholder farmers with solar-powered food preservation & processing capabilities at the farm gate.
S4S converts the cosmetically damaged produce(which would go wasted) into food ingredients using solar powered food processing system, aggregates processed produce from the farmers and sells this to the food & beverage industry as food ingredients. S4S can process a wide variety of materials – vegetables, fruits, spices, marine products, milk – without using coal/wood or electricity thus preventing food wastage and CO2 emissions.
Through processing at the farm gate, S4S enables women farmers to increase their profits by 2X and come out of poverty.S4S is democratizing food processing for smallholder women farmers by transforming farmers into food processors and helping them earn dignified livelihood and building climate resilience.
S4S helps 2000 women farmers increase their household income by 2X.S4S works with 100k farmers in 400 villages in India and reduces 60k Tons of food from getting wasted annually and also reduces 300k Tons of CO2 from entering the environment.
– She is the winner of Women Transforming India Awards by NITI Aayog & United Nations (UN).
– She has also been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and India
– She is the winner of the Earthshot Prize instituted by HRH Prince Williams and supported by Bills Gates and Mike Bloomberg
– Winner of Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award 2019 by Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
– She was also named ‘Emerging Innovator of the Year’ at the inaugural edition of the Economic Times Women Leadership Awards (ETPWLA)
– She is the winner of the Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2022 by Global Citizen & CISCO
– She is the winner of Earthcare award by JSW Foundation and Times of India Group
Nidhi holds a bachelor’s in Chemical Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology.
