Suchiradipta Bhattacharjee

International Water Management Institute | IWMI · Anand Office - India

For better efforts in development of the farming community, agricultural extension services have always focused on farmers’ resources, activities and capabilities. And this has proved to be an important standing point in the rice growing state Tripura of North East India for attaining self-sufficiency in food grain and developing the economic condi...

Purpose: This paper identifies the stakeholders of System of Rice Intensification (SRI), their roles and actions and the supporting and enabling environment of innovation in the state as the elements of the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in SRI in Tripura state of India and studies the relationship matrix among the stakeholders. Methodology:...

A community-level nutritional intervention was implemented among tribal children (3 to 6 years of age) in Telangana, India. The one-year intervention involved six nutrient-rich formulations of millet–pulse–groundnut-based products suited to local taste preferences. Anthropometric measurements of height, weight, and mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC...

A community-level nutrition intervention was implemented among tribal children (3 to 6 years) in Telangana, India. The one-year intervention involved six nutrient-rich formulations of millet-pulse-groundnut based products, suited to local taste preferences. Anthropometric measurements of height, weight and Mid-Upper-Arm -Circumference (MUAC) along...

A community-level nutrition intervention was implemented among tribal children (3 to 6 years) in Telangana, India. The one-year intervention involved six nutrient-rich formulations of millet-pulse-groundnut based products, suited to local taste preferences. Anthropometric measurements of height, weight and Mid-Upper-Arm -Circumference (MUAC) along...

High-value agriculture in India is witnessing a transformation, specifically in fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV). Supply chain stakeholders, mainly small and marginal farmers, receive a very minimal share in consumer rupee due to market uncertainty, high post-harvest losses, information asymmetry, lack of processing facilities and the erratic dema...

Urban farming is now seen as a way to nutritional security of the burgeoning city masses and a means to daily sustenance. Most of the population in the cities have started practising agriculture on the spaces available to them. Urban agriculture is catching up in most of the Indian cities such as Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune etc....

Sustainable agricultural development can be ensured by empowering smallholder farmers with inclusive business models that enhance their livelihoods. This paper outlines the interventions by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in collaboration with Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Telangana, to enha...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have put forward ambitious targets for the world to reduce inequality and usher equal opportunities and development across re - gions. Agricultural development is a common thread that goes across the 17 SDGs and development (or lack of it) in the sector has the potential to affect all others. Global devel...

Human beings evolved around half a million year back and since then communication has been one of the cornerstone for development. Human civilization and communication moved hand in hand till today, but, human beings never communicated they way they do now. At any point of time, hundreds of millions of global population are connected with each othe...

Climate change is perhaps the most serious environmental threat to fight against hunger, malnutrition, disease and poverty in world. Agriculture is the most vulnerable and sensitive sector affected by climate change because of its dependency on local climate parameters like rainfall, temperature, soil health etc. To alleviate the challenges posed b...

Urban population has outnumbered the rural with 54.29 per cent (3.9 billion) share globally in 2016. Urbanisation is one of the crucial drivers of the transformation in the world, be it educational development, economic growth, employment creation, development of service sectors and so forth. However, the unprecedented paradigm shift in population...

Perceptions of gender are deeply rooted in our society, differ extensively within and between cultures, and change over time. But in all cultures, gender determines power and resources. And in the case of rural areas, inequalities between men and women in their access to productive resources, services and opportunities such as land, livestock, fina...

The central purpose of knowledge management is to transform information and intellectual assets into enduring value. The basic idea is to strengthen, improve and propel the organisation by using the wealth of information and knowledge that the organisation and its members collectively possess. Thus the value of knowledge management relates directly...

The study “Climate Smart Agriculture Towards a Triple Win: Adaptation, Mitigation and Food Security” was undertaken with the objectives to get a comprehensive assay of all the stakeholders involved in climate smart agriculture programmes and the assessment of barriers and incentives while adopting climate smart agricultural practices by all the sta...

Development has many faces and complete wellbeing of human population is the most important one of them which in more than one ways involves agriculture and the farming population. Providing needed information at the right time to the rural population is the first step in their empowerment and ICTs can play an immensely important role in providing...

Livelihood diversification may take place in the forms of concurrent diversification, temporal diversification, and spatial diversification. It is being widely believed that the temporally changing land use is having a bearing on the changing livelihood patterns of rural people due to multiplicity of factors. In this light, a case study was conduct...

Since the introduction of social media, communication is becoming more and more dynamic every day. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have 1.18 billion and 316 million active monthly users as of 2015. Communication has become more virtual than physical. More and more people – young and old alike – are fascinated by the social media and it is a t...

There is plenty of information available in the public domain that covers various aspects of extension and know-how about new methodologies for implementation. However this information is often scattered and presented in complex academic language. Hence practitioners, who often have very limited time and/or may only have basic formal education, fin...

There is plenty of information available in the public domain that covers various aspects of extension and know-how about new methodologies for implementation. However this information is often scattered and presented in complex academic language. Hence practitioners, who often have very limited time and/or may only have basic formal education, fin...

With the developing world still depending on agriculture to a great extent and rural people depending on it for their livelihood, it comes as no surprise that family farms have been the focus of development in recent times. Family farms have been legacy for most of the farmers and along with it being principal livelihood option for many, the increa...

Led by IFPRI gfras good practice note for extension and advisory services There is plenty of information available in the public domain that covers various aspects of extension and know-how about new methodologies for implementation. However this information is often scattered and presented in complex academic language. Hence practitioners, who oft...

The Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) is a network of organizations, enterprises and individuals that focuses on bringing new products, processes and forms of organization into economic use, together with the institutions and policies that affect their behaviour and performance. In the small North East Indian state of Tripura, System of Rice Int...

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Swami Vivekananda, the Holy Man of India once said "India has bushel full of doctrines and to spare. What we want is less doctrine and more bread". Since then, India has risen through ranks but the dark side of the moon couldn't hide. She is the home of 17.31% (1.21billion; March 2011) of the world's population but ranks the third poorest. Global H...