Apoorve Khandelwal

#NewStudy Read our study 'Sustainable Agriculture in India 2021: What We Know & How to Scale Up' with @FOLUCoalition that examines #sustainableagriculture through @FAO's #agroecology framework. 👏@guptaniti29, @shanal_pradhan, @ajainme, Nayha Patel 🔗ceew.in/publications/s…

What else can fillip #sustainableagriculture? ➡️ Support long-term & landscape-level comparative impact assessments w/t conventional agri for informed scale-up ➡️Re-align govt support to farmers to reward outcomes like farm’s annual nutrition output or enhanced ecosystem services

🪙 🪙 Currently, only ~0.8% of India's agri budget is allocated for #sustainableagriculture promotion. To scale up, we must radically increase budgetary support to promote SAPSs in rainfed areas as a 1st step. Besides, invest in farmers’ knowledge exchange & capacity building.

🌾No single SAPS, except crop rotation, has over 4% of farmers practising it 👩‍🌾Mechanisation solutions are not widely available yet for most SAPs We need a fundamental rethink of how we grow food & what we eat. India needs to mainstream #sustainableagriculture: @GhoshArunabha

Within #sustainableagriculture, #organicfarming is the most googled term. But, it currently covers only 2% of India’s total net sown area. In our new study, we identified 16 most promising sustainable agri practices & systems (SAPSs) in India. Read: ceew.in/publications/s…

#Thread In the last few yrs, 'eating #organic' has become a popular catchphrase. But have you wondered how your #organicfood is grown, where they are sourced from & why they are often more expensive? Follow this thread on #sustainableagriculture to know more 👇

@MEAIndia @FinMinIndia @CustomsDelhi @IndinNederlands Should limitations and disconnect in our systems penalize the citizens? I really hope that you can help me out...

The need for a sector-wide concerted effort is not news! But there is a lot of confusion about how to go about this. With well researched and proven models NewForesight can help sector leaders develop an actionable sector transformation strategy, anchored…lnkd.in/d5eTRwY

One of the biggest culprit of #swachhaBharat is #IndianRail and travellers. Millions travel w/o dustbins. FYI @narendramodi @sureshpprabhu

It's a great pain to buy platform tickets in huge queues. Why aren't they sold online @sureshpprabhu ji?

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