The findings of this study were first presented at the conference on “Policy Options and Investment priorities for Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth”, organized jointly by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and Institute for Human Development in collaboration with the Planning Commission of India, Food & Agriculture Organization and World Bank, in New Delhi […]
A comparative overview will be presented of domestic policies (macroeconomic and agricultural) in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania and their influence on the extent and character of agricultural growth. The contribution of the World Bank to agricultural growth in the three countries will then be reviewed, from the perspectives of both policy advice and lending provided […]
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 […]
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