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Sources of Growth in East African Agriculture
A dynamic agricultural sector is critical for alleviating Sub-Saharan Africa’s current economic crisis, and for laying the foundations of sustained future growth. In recent years, however, agriculture has performed poorly in many African countries. Efforts to assist its recovery, often through structural adjustment lending, have suffered from inadequate information about country- and region-specific factors, and […]
By drawing on the diaries of scientists in the Rockefeller Foundation who assisted India in developing its research system in the 1950s and 60s, this paper outlines the process by which research reorganization was achieved and the external factors which induced the reorganization. The paper also discusses this reorganization in relation to the growth in […]
Do We Have the Right Data? Towards Better Measurement of High Priority Indicators to Eradicate Hunger and Assure Healthy Food for all.
Transforming Agricultural Education for Reshaping India’s Future
Agriculture is the pivotal component of India’s prosperity and livelihood security of its 1.25 billion people. Through the Green Revolution and subsequent development processes, the country had registered unprecedented growth in food and agricultural production, food security and poverty alleviation. Yet, the country is home to almost one-fourth of the world’s hungry, undernourished and poor […]
For millennia, the Ganges River, holy to Hindus, has provided livelihoods, food, and water for Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. Last month, one of India’s leading environmental activists died after a 111-day hunger strike, failing to evoke changes to save India’s most revered river (known as Ganga). Image: By Babasteve – https://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=3267702&context=set-781175&size=o, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1859422
Climate Change and Doubling Farmers’ Income under Climate Change
-Recent GOI Policy of Doubling Farmer Incomes— “DFI” -Debate on definition and focus on income from (Cropping and Livestock) but household income depends on agriculture and non-agricultural income -Overview of findings on India’s recent agricultural performance and Implications for DFI -Climate Change a new complex multidimensional challenge
Challenges and Developments in Financing Irrigation and Drainage Sector
Uma Lele, Tushaar Shah, Mohamed Ait Kadi, Herve Plusquellec, Richard Reidinger When in the early 1970s prices took a sharp upturn, international donors and national governments greatly increased investment in irrigation, mainly in Asia as part of the expansion of overall investments in food and agriculture.
