Monthly Archives: September 2012

Aditi Mukherji, a social scientist with the International Water Management Institute, New Delhi, has just won the first Norman Borlaug Award for field research...

The Water Research Commission (WRC), in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and research institution Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies International, has...

This week saw another alumnus of the Presidency College, fondly called the Oxford of the East, do India proud by bagging Rockefeller Foundation's first...

A research unearthed, for the first time, the scale at which enterprising farmers are themselves using their own resources innovatively rather than waiting for...

By Nina Chestney - FARMERS in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking up small-scale irrigation schemes as drought threatens the security of...

The growing demand for water is closely linked to the continuous increase in food production, and water pollution that renders enormous amounts of water...

A new study shows small-scale irrigation systems could boost farmers' incomes by billions of dollars in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The research was...

World Water Week-an annual conference in Stockholm dedicated to discussing the management of global water resources-opened Monday with a message about cleaning your plate. ...

There's no better time than now for the American public to appreciate the “water-energy-food nexus,” or as I like to call it, the “liquid...

As food prices escalate globally due to the failed monsoon season in Asia and the “super drought” in the US, a new study finds...