As we aware, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are aimed at reducing hunger and poverty, as well as promoting health and nutrition. My mini-poster presentation at ANH Academy Week while being in line with Research Question under Pillar 2.1 of LANSA programme - How do policies and strategies influence poverty and the nutrition impact of agriculture? –will be a snapshot on the production and consumption of pulses in India and the connection to achieving the SDGs.My...
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Author : Priya RampalPublished Date : Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Connecting research interests to ongoing debates at ANH
Author : Saba AslamPublished Date : Friday, June 30, 2017
Photo Credit: CSSRAgricultural work in Pakistan is becoming feminised and accounts for more than 70 per cent in the work force. How well is women’s agricultural work recognised by policymakers in the country might still be unclear, but is a key research interest to better understand the linkages between women’s agricultural work and their health outcomes.About our study:The Collective for Social Science Research(CSSR) has been involved in a LANSAstudy on women’s work and...
Urine-biochar as fertilizer! Would Bangladeshi farmers accept it?
Author : Ipsita Sutradhar, Sayema Akter, Hans-Peter Schmidt and Sabine GabryschPublished Date : Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Biochar is created through burning biomass in an oxygen-limited environment. It is a light and porous material with high adsorptive and water-holding capacity. The Ithaka Institute in Switzerland invented a low-tech method to produce biochar that can be used at village level from crop and wood waste in soil-pit kilns. Urine is known to be an excellent and highly efficient fertilizer and available for free unlike mineral fertilizer. However, it is underused because of the...
Motivated by Gandhi’s diet story
Author : Deepak SharmaPublished Date : Friday, June 9, 2017
Discovering the micronutrient richness of Luni leavesSometime in the year 2000, I read an article in Rajasthan Patrika newspaper about ‘Luni’ and about the different micronutrients and vitamins that are necessary for the human body. I was working as a Water Resources Specialists and naturally focused more on water availability and utilisation efficiencies, thus paying little attention to the news article. A decade later, I chanced upon the same news article and this...
