Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
While these measures will begin to help, the impact witnessed by farm sector and other vulnerable groups requires more intervention The disruptions Read more...
Stakeholder engagement in South India to bridge the science-policy gap
Why are Indian youth averse to taking up agriculture despite knowing of ways to succeed? Has the role of women in agriculture, Read more...
Open Data is the gateway to machine learning
Data-driven decisions are one of the key drivers for high-impact research. Usually, the most expensive and time-consuming part of any research study Read more...
Repurposing Public Policies for Sustainable Water Management in Indian Agriculture
The importance of sustainable management of water in a changing climate cannot be over-emphasized. Depleting water resources, besides land degradation and desertification; Read more...
As students map the weather, an Indian village bests its water woes
The village school in Kothapally, in southern India, has only a handful of amenities – blackboards, desks and chairs, a playground with Read more...
Goats Against Climate Change
Earlier this year, Cyclone Idai swept across Mozambique. Its powerful winds and heavy rains led to massive floods, hundreds of deaths, and the large-scale destruction of crops and property. An estimated 140,000 people were displaced, and six months later, nearly one million people, including 160,000 children under five, are still facing food shortages and a nutrition crisis...
Agriculture in Budget 2020: Implementation key to make a real difference
Like many other agriculture policy enthusiasts, I too had made my wish list expecting specific announcements in the Union Budget 2020-21. I even shared my thoughts in the social media, much to a broad acceptance of friends following me...
Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
There are two compelling reasons for this shift. First, urban dwellers in Africa often have higher rates of malnutrition than their rural counterparts and, second, urban centres are large consumers of food produced in rural areas and in the process are altering the producing areas, sometimes beyond recognition...
Actionable policies to make Indian agriculture climate-resilient
Climate change is one of the most extreme challenges Indian agriculture is facing today and will have to deal with in future. There have been overwhelming and growing scientific evidences to establish that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variabilities and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely...
With technology and trust, we can move mountains
If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building rat houses on their land. But that’s just what some residents living on Ethiopia’s Yewol mountain worried scientists were doing. They saw the slow construction of stone-pile terraces along their mountainside. And they were suspicious...