Integrating Technology in Agriculture: Drone-Based Crop Advisory (CropAssure)
Bharat Rohan India loses $500 billion worth of crops to pest attacks and disease outbreaks every year, and farmers now use 3.5 times more fertilisers and pesticides than in 1970. The lack of data for monitoring and traceability of crop production has resulted in a lack of support systems that incentivise farmers on sustainable crop […]
Investing in Myanmar
3 mins read Myanmar was excluded from ASEAN and the US re-launch of Indo-Pacific relations last month. But while the country’s coup-leaders can be isolated by the international community, its problems cannot. The collapse of Myanmar’s economy creates a dragging effect on its trading partners. Its refugee crisis puts pressure on its neighbours’ resources. Issues […]
Participatory Water Management in Arid Kachchh
Arid Communities & Technologies and WIN Foundation Groundwater is a common pool resource, and besides the ‘tragedy of the commons’ it faces the threat of being highly exploited. Collective localised action is one of the ways to overcome the situation, and here we discuss an approach to participatory resource management work in the Kachchh district […]
Progress Towards the SDGs is Going Backwards, but Digital Transformation can Help us Accelerate Impact
5 minutes read The Asia-Pacific region is decades behind the goal posts of the SDGs. Investing in digital transformation can accelerate impact. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we witnessed a major shift in the adoption of digital technologies. The global community embraced technology, and digital transformation was critically essential for organisations to survive. […]
Q&A: Educating Girls is Key to Ending Poverty
3 mins read Education empowers and transforms women. It allows them to break the cycle of exclusion that keeps them at home and disengaged from decision-making. As founder of BRAC, the 2019 Yidan Prize laureate Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was widely recognized as a champion of girls’ education and women’s empowerment. BRAC’s work shows that […]
Reshaping Society Through Blended Finance
The potential impact a blended finance structure could have on mobilising funds to address the most pressing issues, including eradicating extreme poverty, combating climate change, enhancing the healthcare system, and many others, are the ones we often hear about. Unfortunately, despite its ability to improve standards at many levels, only a little progress has been […]
Resilient Food System Through Climate-Smart Agriculture
Oorja Development Solutions Limited 70% of rural households in India depend on the agriculture value chain for their sustenance. Of these, 86% of the farmers are small and marginal. These farmers practise agriculture on landholding of fewer than 2 acres which is often fragmented. Smallholder farmers usually engage in growing staple crops such as rice […]
SDG Progress Continues to Stall in Asia-Pacific following COVID-19
5 min read The newly published Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2022 provides a detailed analysis of how the Asia-Pacific, and the world more generally, is progressing towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All United Nations member states adopted these transformational goals for economic, social, and environmental sustainability to be met by 2030. The SDR 2022 […]
The “Cool” Farms – Urban Portable Farming Systems
Living Greens Organics Agriculture is a leading cause of climate change and the water crisis. Over 40% of fruit and vegetables are spoiled due to the long supply chains and lack of cold storage in India – thus, the energy and water used for fertilisers, growing these crops, harvesting and transporting them are wasted, leading […]
