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Ravula Padmaja and Ma Cynthia Serquina Bantilan draw lessons from gender-based social analysis at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics with a particular focus on agriculture. They look at agricultural technology development through a social lens, reflecting on the growing need for a holistic, impact-oriented approach to integrated aquaculture and agricultural research for development based on innovation and cooperation.
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ICRISAT's VLS ran in rural India from 1975 to 1985 and restarted in 2002 and have been an unparalleled source of information to inform development strategies for the region and to truly transform development economics and development studies more broadly. In 1975, six Indian villages, namely Aurepalle and Dokur in Andhra Pradesh, and Shirapur, Kalman, Kanzara and Kinkheda in Maharashtra, were selected by ICRISAT as the starting point for this initiative. The VLS was subsequently extended to Burkina Faso in Africa. The main purpose of VLS was to understand the socioeconomic conditions of people living in the SAT. This socioeconomic and agrobiological exercise culminated in a landmark database on rural households in the SAT of India and West Africa. For more detailed information on VLS log on to http://www.icrisat.org/gt-mpi/knowledgeBase/Databases/vls.asp.
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Padmaja, R., Bantilan, M. Gender Issues in Aquaculture: Learning lessons from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Development 51, 271–277 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.21
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