This compendium consists of ten sector papers commissioned by FAO in 2008, as a precursor to the white paper and nally leading to the development of the FAO-India National Medium Term Priority Framework (NMTPF). These papers are intended to be comprehensive accounts of challenges and opportunities of the sectors thought to be critical for the development of food and agriculture in India. In particular, the paper The paper identifies opportunities for meaningful intervention by international developmental agencies based on identication of weaknesses, gaps and hurdles faced by the sector as reported in several recent studies and reports.
This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws up. The first part looks at the...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) partnered with the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) in 2011 to conduct a series of policy dialogues on the prioritization of demand-driven agricultural research for development in South Asia. Dialogues were conducted with...
Agriculture and food supply face a repositioning in the context of challenges associated with the Millennium Development Goals. From a development perspective it is of central importance to identify the role that the sector should perform in the fight against...
Institutional innovations are critical for effective performance of agricultural research centres in natural resource management projects that often include multiple and diverse stakeholders with contrasting objectives and activities. This report shows how institutional histories of projects can be used as...
This working paper represents work‐in‐progress of the CBFC project (Community‐based Fish Culture in Seasonal Floodplains and Irrigation Systems), a research project supported by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), with the aim of increasing productivity of seasonally occurring water bodies through aquaculture.The...