Incorporating gender analysis
into agricultural planning helps policy makers and planners understand how policies and
programmes need to be modified if women are to be equally involved with men.
This issue focuses on success
stories of women’s participation in agricultural activities, attempts of different
organisations in incorporating gender into their plans and programmes and case studies of
projects that have tested methods and tools to make agricultural policy and planning more
gender sensitive.
Abstract
The National Agricultural
Technology Project (NATP) has been initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of
India, to expand ongoing reforms and innovations, consolidate earlier investments and
address constraints and gaps not addressed earlier. The basic premise of NATP is that
research and extension programmes should be farmer centered and demand driven. The focus
of this issue of the Digest is on the Innovations in Technology Dissemination (ITD)
component of the project, goals and objectives, strategy and institutional and
organizational changes proposed under the project.
Farmers all over the world have a
wealth of information of their own environment and have evolved suitable indigenous
farming systems and practices. The value of these indigenous knowledge systems in
facilitating sustainable development is now being recognized.
This issue of the Digest focuses
on some of the indigenous innovations, and documents practices evolved by farmers around
the globe. The attempt here is to illustrate how farmers, with their creative urge to
experiment and innovate, have learned to derive advantage from local resources and natural
processes to get more form their land.
Abstract
A crucial requirement for success of
development efforts is access to accurate and timely information.This crucial nature of
information makes the information technology(IT) revolution important to rural
development.IT offers facilities for vast information storage,fast and inexpensive
communication channels,links between media and ease of use at declining costs.
The current issue of the Digest
focuses on information technology and some applications in agriculture in different
countries and documents attempts made in different countries to improve transfer of
agriculture information in rural areas.
