Should each country in the region rediscover the wheel? Why should not the policy makers learn from each other and also from the experience of Honey Bee Network over the last three decades in India and other countries. UN ESCAP in cooperation with GIAN, IIMA, SRISTI and other members of Honey Bee Network organized a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Festival of inclusive innovations for social transformation (FIIST)
As the summer of 2019 approaches near, we need to ask a few questions. How and what will technology and management sciences youth and school children celebrate this summer? Will they engage with the unmet social, ecological, industrial needs and try to make first such inventory to propel our scientific and technological pursuits? We propose … Continue reading
Reducing cost and promoting innovations to improve farmer incomes sustainably
A great deal is being talked about so-called zero budget farming these days. In a way, it is good that what our open source database on farmers’ cost-reducing innovations could not achieve during the last thirty years, at a large scale, it is beginning to happen. But less chemical inputs mean, more time and labour … Continue reading
Why cannot there be a consensus on major farm sector reforms-1? A vain hope
There are bound to be political turns and twists in a democracy and that is an essential part of the freedoms we enjoy. A time for consensual politics is ahead of us. No one ideology or political belief system can discover all the solutions for the future. To identify all thinkers and researchers with any … Continue reading
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