CPF OLI on forest finance in support of UNFF. Rome 19-21 September, 2012. Presentation addresses by Uma Lele
The fourth industrial revolution and rural transformation in India
Editor’s Note: This article is based on “The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Agricultural and Rural Innovation, and Implications for Public Policy and Investments: A Case of India” by Uma Lele and Sambuddha Goswami, forthcoming in Agricultural Economics, November 2017 Issue. The extraordinary pace of technological change in the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”—well-articulated by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of […]
How technology is transforming the lives of India’s farmers
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) heralds an exponential pace of technological change, building on the digital revolution to combine technologies, spawn new ones, and transform systems, industries, countries – even society itself. For developing countries, advances in computing power, connectivity, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and GIS, and newer, more capable technologies hold tremendous promise. Inclusive agriculture, […]
India’s ranking in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI’s) 2017 Global Hunger Index has invited much comment and criticism among India’s intellectual elite. India has slipped to 100 among 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index, down from 97 among the 118 countries in 2016. Fortunately, the Government of India’s National Nutrition Strategy […]