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Uma Lele, PhD, Honored for Expertise in the Agricultural Industry in the Nonprofit Sector
“Dr. Uma Lele, a distinguished agricultural economist, has been honored by Marquis Who’s Who for her extensive contributions to the agricultural industry, particularly within the nonprofit sector. Her career spans more than five decades and has been marked by remarkable achievements in research, policy analysis, and advocacy for women’s participation in agriculture.” Read More
Brookings “The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline in poverty and hunger until 2015 had slowed even before COVID-19. Often overlooked is the fact that much of that reduction in poverty and hunger occurred in China and Southeast […]
Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture
Prolonged neglect of agriculture and the 2007–2008 food and financial crises put food and agriculture back on the agenda. In 2015 the international community adopted Sustainable Development Goals—setting goals and undertaking to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. However, the global COVID-19 pandemic has substantially set back the development agenda, with a […]
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
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 […]
