By Harry Palmier
I recently attended the meeting of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Drylands Systems held in Hyderabad, India, at the invitation of ICRISAT, and was honoured to be selected as the Chair of the Program’s new Independent Steering Committee (ISC).
I…
The co-patron of the Gender in Agriculture Partnership, Prof. M.S. Swaminathan shares some lessons he has learned over his long and successful career on scientists’ role in feeding the world.
The research of MS Swaminathan led to India reaching agricultural self-sufficiency in the 1970s. He…
Please contact us (see below) if you would like to share views on the A4NH program or any of its projects. We are visiting Bangladesh, India and Kenya soon and might be able to meet you. Otherwise, we can offer a phone/skype interview. We will also be circulating a short survey. We look…
For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security, the conservation…
Since 2005-06, the date of the last nationwide government survey of nutrition, the story has been one of a curse, a national shame and a disconnect. This is because despite rapid economic growth in the past 15 years, nutrition indicators for children under five have barely moved.
Can we now…
The Government of India, Department of Agricultural Research and Education approved the proposal of ICAR- Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA), renamed now as Central Institute for Women in Agriculture (CIWA) for setting up of GAP India-Hub at a total budget of INR 424.15…
With the support of the Asian Farmers Association and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Don and Gaspar from API, an Indonesia farmer organization, Nikka, Esther and Jonathan from PAKISAMA, a Philippines farmer organization and Sonali, Sudhir and Manoj from INHERE, a local…
Blog by Robin Bourgeois, Senior Foresight Advisor, GFAR Secretariat
What do the people from the Boru community of Flores in Indonesia, from South Palawan in the Philippines and from the Kumaun and Garhwal region, Uttarakhand in the Central Himalaya in India have in common? They all have a…
Prolinnova India completed three years of its existence as member of the global network. We learnt much from fellow members and tried to contribute to strengthening our network and bringing its message to more people. Innovation processes and Participatory Innovation Development are much…
North Gujarat is arid. It has seven districts which include the Kutch (Rann) Desert. About 15 years ago, Banaskantha, a district in the region used to make news for its poverty and regular famines. Today, Unjha, a farming city in North Gujarat is the spice capital of the World and the region…
