Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Sidra Khalid and Najeeb Ullah won this year’s Transformative Research Challenge hosted by the World Food Forum.

In the past decade, the Indian state of West Bengal implemented three significant policy reforms related to groundwater and electricity.

Lessons emerging from our research shows that collectives allow bonding and connections through identities other than gender, enabling significant change in entrenched gender-power relations.

As we mark World Water Day, experts and communities alike will be sharing messages on water scarcity under climate change, emphasizing the need to use this precious resource judiciously. ‘Don’t take more than you need,’ they’ll advise.

IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative research.

As Laos seeks to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods, while adapting agriculture to climate change impacts, the potential of groundwater irrigation can only grow. Lessons learned from IWMI’s pilot study should prove valuable for helping realize this potential.

Our rivers are barometers of environmental neglect – it’s time to clean them up

“Control over the means of production by a small landowning aristocracy with political, ideological and economic power over a peasant majority,” is how Karl Marx defined feudalism.

The activities and discussions within the manual arose from science-based learning theories, with the intent of radically flattening the prevailing top-down communication structures.

A new model for bottom up irrigation and land management for marginal women farmers.

Dr Fraser Sugden, IWMI Nepal