- Dr. Mark Holderness is a food scientist who uses science to address agricultural and rural development challenges. He began his career as a cocoa pathologist in Papua New Guinea and has since gone on to work on agricultural projects around the world. He worked with CAB International, an…
- The EAT Forum brought together a wide range of experts from the worlds of food, climate and health, and discussed challenges and opportunities linking food, health and sustainability exploring crossovers of these themes and of the science, business and politics concerned. About the…
- Agriculture has an image problem. Simply put, for the majority of the world’s youth, agriculture simply isn’t seen as being “cool” or attractive. Most think of it only as back-breaking labor, without an economic pay-off—and little room for career advancement. With an ageing population of…
- My earliest memories on issues involving small holder farmers’ access to Information and Communication Technologies are with the introduction of the radio. I had recently migrated from Kenya to India in the early days of 1970 to study and everything was new and strange to me, including…
- Source: Food Tank According to a 2011 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), women comprise around 43 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries. However, FAO also notes, “women face overt and implicit discrimination in access to…
- by K.M.L. Pathak Almost every smallholder farming family in a developing country owns livestock, whether chickens, rabbits, sheep, goats, pigs, cows, buffaloes, donkeys, horses, yaks, llamas, or camels. In India and many other countries, there is greater equity in livestock ownership…
- Inclusion of rural women in scientific and technological endeavours and realizing women’s intellectual potential is a big challenge in developing countries. Women play a decisive role in many facets of agricultural sector. Creating multiple opportunities for women in agribusiness enterprises…
- The Medium Term Plan of Action of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research entails now a specific outcome (Outcome 1) aiming at “Farmers and national stakeholders empowered and informed to better negotiate their own agricultural futures”. In order to achieve this outcome the MTP targets the…
- Due to malnutrition and severe poverty 22% of Indian population remains undernourished while 29.8% of rural population were below poverty line. Though women play a pivotal role in building the backbone of a nation’s economy but the literacy gap in India which is 65.46% for females while for males…
- Let us present here the success story of a group of women belonging to families with poor economic status. They have defied dogmas of the community and came out of shell with drive and determination to turn around things. In 1999, 13 motivated rural poor women formed a Women Self-help Group (…