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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Insightful Reports

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India: Odisha’s organic farming to be worth INR 230 billion in five years

Indian industry body ASSOCHAM is sure of the fact that promotion and wider implementation of organic farming could lead to wealth accumulation of upto INR230 billion, while also creating about 8 million jobs in the Indian state of Odisha. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Indian meterologists try to develop more precise monsoon data predictions

Given that half of India is reliant on agrilcutlre for their livelihoods, this year has been particularly rough given the erratic rains which brought about a drought like situation for all farmers across India. Now, Indian metereologists are trying to develop a more precise and streamlined prediction mechanism which would […]

September 15, 2012

Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa

This report by the CGIAR examines several households across East Africa to understand whether the adoption of climate friendly farming practices and technologies has been implemented by smallholders across East Africa. The results are positive. Read the report here.

September 15, 2012

Smallholder flowers from Kenya: the role of ethical agents

This report by International Institute for Environment and Development charts out the potential role for the flower-gardening agriculture sector in Kenya. Read more here and read the report here.

September 15, 2012

Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century

This report analyses the relationship between anomalous temperatures and resultant changes in economies of about 125 countries between the years 1950 and 2003. It was noticed that developed countries weren’t very severely impacted, but those that were underdeveloped, and were also typically hot and agriculture based, took a harder hit. […]

September 15, 2012

Current and Planned Research on Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: A Mapping and Gap Analysis

According to a new report, there is a lack of research in how agrculture is impacting nutrition requirements of the people. The report details eight such gap areas, and has been published by UK’s DFID. Read more here, and read the report here.

September 10, 2012

India: New tablet for school children launched in India

A cost effective table designed by a company called AppTab ITech, for the cost of INR 5000 has recently been released Chief Minister of the state of Karnataka in India. This tablet is a competitive substitute for the more expensive tablets available in the market, priced in the range of […]

September 10, 2012

ICT to help rural farmers in Uganda with climate change

Thanks to a new project called CHAI (Climate Change Adaptation and ICT) launched in Kampala earlier in August is going to help Ugandan cattle farmers cope with the vagaries of climate better so as to manage their resources better. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

The untapped potential of the mobile phone

The usage of non-voice services of mobile phones in the developing markets is unlimited, as this post goes on to show. Giving statistics of growth of non-voice usage in six countries, this post talks about how innovation in streamlining the efficacy and impact of SMSs and video/picture publishing via the […]