ManiK

Bibliophile & Lectiophile 📚📖 | Productivuty Enthusiast | Thought provoker 🤔 | Striving to make a positive impact 💪

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

The heat has been brutal this past week. Temperatures hit 45° in Nagpur, 44° in Ahmedabad, 43° in Prayagraj, 42° in Delhi. Even Bengaluru hit 37°. And we're still in April 😬

A big contributing factor behind rising temperatures is the loss of forest cover, and India has lost a lot of it. Back in 2020, we met the team behind Farmers for Forests (F4F). Their idea was to do agroforestry at scale. The challenge is that farmers can't afford to wait years for trees to pay off, and most tree-planting projects don't survive the first monsoon. The idea was ambitious, and we at @RainmatterOrg backed them early.

Most tree-planting in India is monoculture, just rows of one species. But a plantation isn't a forest. F4F plants multi-layer agroforests with fruit, timber, shrubs, intercrops, and native species, trying to mimic what an actual forest does.

Six years later, they've gone from 50 acres to 5,000 acres and have just secured funding to reach 40,000 over the next three years. Compared to traditional crop farming, per acre, they're seeing ~4x carbon sequestration, ~3x farmer income, and meaningful improvement in biodiversity and soil health. Still early days, but promising.

Those numbers needed to be verifiable. So F4F built TreeLens, an open-source tree-tracking system that uses drone imagery to measure carbon sequestration, tree height, and biodiversity across thousands of small farms. 15 other organisations now use it.

The hardest problem in agroforestry is time. Fruit trees take 5 to 7 years to pay off, and most small farmers simply can't wait that long. So F4F is now working with the government and the larger ecosystem to design financial instruments like carbon bonds and first-loss guarantees that protect farmers while the trees grow.

Really glad we backed Arti, Aditya, and Krutika early.

[ManiK @35manikanta]

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@Kannanpsk29 @AmazingCreditC It is up and running in India. I have changed mine today!

[AAM @AccessibleMeds]

Today our AAM team applauded passage of Q1/Q2 legislation as a part of the FY2026 funding bill and called on Congress to take additional steps to reform PBMs. Q1/Q2 will cut red tape, save the U.S. healthcare system over one billion dollars, and bring lower-cost medicines to patients sooner. AAM also commended Congress for enacting initial PBM reforms, but calls for stronger, more robust measures to reign in PBM practices.

Read our full press release: https://t.co/Z4DFtqC1Ri

[ManiK @35manikanta]

Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 22 books I read in 2025! https://t.co/TbcmCGH1Du

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Celebrating my 800th Strava activity in Tarahumara style. Hill repeats with Canyonsandals.

Check out my run on Strava: https://t.co/Aq0MsMbYzA

[Brahmaiah Tallam @BtallamTallam]

Dear Revanth reddy,
So many kids,ladies and citizens of Pragathi Nagar comeout for a rally for Amber lake cleaning and removal of non-veg stalls on lake road, wastages are dumping in lake,we are really not able stay just because of very bad smell and mosquitos.
@revanth_anumula

[Brahmaiah Tallam @BtallamTallam]

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[For a Better Society For AmbirLake @SaveAmbirLake]

Is this the Lake or a Dumping Yard 😢

[For a Better Society For AmbirLake @SaveAmbirLake]

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[ManiK @35manikanta]

Check out this post on Fable. https://t.co/IuNQQKuQhW

[ManiK @35manikanta]

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[Sujit 🇮🇳 @skh27]

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[ManiK @35manikanta]

@contliving Congratulations! and please keep it going. I cannot wait for the detailed blog post.

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@rewardingspends However, when I tried to book some fresh items today, it showed vouchers as a payment option. However, I double-checked before continuing.

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[Vishal Khandelwal @safalniveshak]

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[ManiK @35manikanta]

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