Why projects on poverty reduction falter and whether inductive reasoning could have helped those projects, Jeffrey Sachs’ project, for example, could have taken a cue from the work done by Verghese Kurien in India, which formed cooperatives among farmers that bound them together in a journey that made mobility from destitution possible for millions. Some of the key takeaways are that poor farmers when pulled into a cooperative become a formidable force to reckon with. Dolling out subsidies and free aid actually enfeebles them into inaction that go against them as they do not understand the true economic value. True value can only be understood when they come on terms with losses and only when the cooperative spirit is combined to offset losses by dealing with the inherent challenges (inductive reasoning makes tremendous sense), the farmers’ initiatives to combat poverty becomes a sustainable proposition; no other backstop works but the combined trust of 'cooperative farming' for marginal farmers, but it needs the passion, grit and the guts of a relentless leader like Kurien.