Asia Rethinking the food system to address hunger, health and social equality: Notes from the northeast of India November 26, 2019 0 Image Credit: Dozens of tea pickers among tea bushes, Roger Burks/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sujata Dutta Hazarika I…
Asia Targeted financial solutions to address India’s agricultural crisis November 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: India-Onion Irrigation, IWMI Flickr Photos/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sourajit Aiyer. India is in a quandary. Two years of…
Climate Change The climate-food-conflict connection in Indonesia May 22, 2019 0 Written by Roberto Ricciuti Image Credit: cak-cak/Flickr, License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The effect of climate change on the emergence of violent conflict has become one of…
Inequality Growth with Equity: The Case of Vietnam September 10, 2018 0 Written by Brian McCaig, Dwayne Benjamin and Loren Brandt Many initially poor countries have grown quickly, frequently accompanied by rising inequality, over the past 30-40 years;…
Sustainable Development Modern country, persistent smallholder: Explaining the puzzle of Thailand’s truncated agrarian transition September 3, 2018 0 Written by Jonathan Rigg Why are there so many smallholder farming households in Thailand? That might seem obvious: because Thailand is a kingdom of farmers…
East Timor Agricultural reform and indigenous agency in highland Timor January 18, 2018 0 Written by Michael Rose In 2017 the Global Hunger Index ranked Timor-Leste as 110 out of the 119 on its list of adequately fed countries…
Philippines The Two Faces of Intervention in the Visayan Coconut Industry November 2, 2017 0 Written by Gerwyn Enerlan. Eastern Visayas is one of the top producers of coconut fruit in the Philippines, ranking first or second in national production.…
Women For She Who Tills: The Gendering of Agriculture in India March 8, 2017 0 Written by Lakshmee Sharma. In the Indian Himalayas, a pair of bulls works 1,064 hours, a man 1,212 hours, and a woman 3,485 hours in a…
Development The Price of Basmati Rice March 1, 2017 0 Written by Klaas van Dijken. The basmati rice in your supermarket comes in packaging that tells a pretty story: of produce cultivated in the lush hills…