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Sustainable agriculture and food production - Stockholm Resilience Centre Advances the understanding of complex social-ecological systems with new insights into ecosystem management practices and long-term sustainability

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Now, cellphones aid rural health service - The Times of India 'Mobility Sanjivini', an innovative software of Manipal University, is all set to make rural health services more accessible, eco-friendly and paperless.

Change makers Village volunteers or Gramdoots have changed the government machinery - to work for the people - in around 1,000 villages of Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, says Aparna Pallavi , Heroism

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What's the Endgame of Knowledge? | Ashoka Rural Innovation and Farming Once, long ago, social change meant “give a man a fish.” Then we figured out that “teach a man to fish” could be more lasting.

With drought having a drastic effect on India's crops, entrepreneurial thinking that can outsmart a dry season is more necessary than ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/business/global/drought-in-india-devastates-crops-and-farmers.html?_r=1