Designing institutions that coordinate expectations of different classes of rural producers in a manner in which income disparities are reduced; common property is better managed and in fact rejuvenated (if possible); and redundancy for coping with uncertain contingencies are continually created; is...

National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the absence of death as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not very dignified or creditable. This precisely was the claim of a national...

Training of rural development managers has attracted considerable attention in the recent past in light of the drive in the Central Government for upgrading the professional skills of development managers. However, the thrust is either training people at the lower levels or sending senior...

Higher the uncertainty in the environment for which technologies have to be developed, greater is the compulsion for inter-disciplinary research. Every discipline necessary for addressing the research problem may not exist in the same institute. Even if it does, the number of scientists may be...

The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the most interior parts of the developing and developed world. With the increase in oil prices, this model of globalisation is...

Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, I was asked to identify the key steps that national governments can take to deal with the challenge of developing an inclusive innovation based...

Gender imbalance among various streams of professionals is a constant cause of concern to policy planners and institution builders. The situation becomes more serious when we notice that girls often perform much better academically at secondary school level and then there is a sharp decline in...

conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out own social order. Animals and plants, then, are supposed to operate by...

Conventional agricultural extension approaches have ceased to be of much effect in transforming agricultural productivity and meeting the goals of sustainable natural resource management. Multi agency approach using multimedia, multi language and multi channel is imperative. Ministry of...

Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This requires understanding of the local knowledge systems and their institutional...