APAARI has recently published the Proceedings of the Regional Consultation on Collective Actions for Opening Access to Agricultural Information and Knowledge in the Asia-Pacific Region, a meeting co-sponsored and co-organized by GFAR. The proceedings are available here.
The…
Sugarcane is an important crop of India and it is a livelihood for 35 million farmers. Tamil Nadu ranks first in sugarcane productivity. Water is one of the major constraints affecting the productivity and profitability of sugarcane. Approximately 2,500 kg of water is needed to produce 1 kg of…
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Initiative came out of a common understanding at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 of the importance of conserving and enhancing agroecosystems with exceptional agrobiodiversity, local knowledge and socio-cultural…
Background – what was the drive behind the new development
Rice was the main crop grown in the Madurai District of Tamil Nadu, India. Due to the problem of inadequate irrigation water due to ground water depletion, farmers started giving up rice. Millet is highly suitable for promotion as an…
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The Africa Union (AU) has re-defined and strengthened its cooperation with traditional continental partners (Africa-Europe Partnership, China-Africa Forum, TICAD with Japan), and has engaged, after 2004, in a number of new continent to continent partnerships, aiming at enhancing development…
Brief meeting was held 09-02-2013 at the Directorate for Research on Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, India, alongside the XI National Agricultural Science Congress.
Those present were:
Mark Holderness (GFAR)
Uma Lele (for APAARI)
Krishna Srinath (Director, DRWA…
India is a rapidly growing geo-political, economic and knowledge power at regional and global levels. With the second largest national agricultural innovation system, it has made universally acknowledged progress in agricultural development using science and technology in the last 50 years. Being…