Reema Sathe | |
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| Born | 5 September India |
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| Known for | Founder of Happy Roots |
| Awards | Nari Shakti Puraskar (2016) |
Reema Sathe (born 5 September) is an Indian social activist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Happy Roots, a food company that shares its profits more fairly with small farmers. She was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for her work in 2017. [1] [2]
She completed a master’s degree in business management. In 2023, she joined the Master of Public Policy programme at the University of Oxford, where she studied at Somerville College as a Cyril Shroff Scholar. [3]
Sathe began her career in the food and beverage industry.In 2014, she resigned from her corporate position to pursue independent work. She later joined Krishi Star as General Manager. [3]
In 2016, Sathe founded Happy Roots, a social enterprise focused on developing supply chains for indigenous crops and livestock-based products. [3] [4]
Sathe has built farm-to-market supply chains both Nationally and Internationally focusing on indigenous cereals and grains, indigenous variety of livestock benefiting more than 30,000 small & marginal farmers across four states in India. Her company incentivised farmers for producing high quality, indigenous grains by paying them 50% more than usual market price and creating healthy, nutritious snack food from these grains which would appeal to urban customers. In the case of women farmers in Ahmednagar their income has tripled as they grew buckwheat for Sathe's business. [5] Her product range includes crackers and cookies made from wheat, buckwheat, Amarnath seeds, Flax seed and barley. [6]
Sathe gave a TEDx talk at "Serene Meadows" in July 2020 on the power of small changes. [7]
Sathe was awarded "Business Today"’s "Most Powerful Women" Award in 2017. [6]
She received the Digital Women Awards in 2017, supported by SheThePeople, Facebook, and Google. [8]
Sathe was invited to the Presidential Palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi on International Women’s Day in 2017 to be awarded the 2016 Nari Shakti Puraskar. [9] She was one of 27 women who were recognised and five organisations were also honoured. [1]