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The Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) was established in 1994 in one of the premier universities of the world - The Australian National University (ANU). Apart from its research and doctoral training activities, ASARC also needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in response to these twin needs. The first oration was held in 1994 and the latest (the 20th) was held in 2018. The first 10 orations were published by ANU Press in 2006. This new edition updates the volume to include all 20 orations delivered so far and provides an updated introduction. All these orations have been delivered by leading academics, scientists and policymakers deeply involved in the transformation of the Indian economy. This collection of the Narayanan Orations is thus at once both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the future. As such, the publication of this volume marks a watershed in the intellectual debate on India's economic reforms program and should be welcomed by all those interested in the economic development of the country.

Currently, European farmers do not have access to a sufficient number and diversity of crop species/varieties. This prevents them from designing more resilient cropping systems to abiotic and biotic stresses. Crop diversification is a key lever to reduce pest (pathogens, animal pests and weeds) pressures at all spatial levels from fields to landscapes. In this context, plant breeding should consist of: i) increased efforts in the development of new or minor crop varieties to foster diversity of cropping systems, and ii) focus on more resilient varieties showing local adaptation. This new breeding paradigm, called here "breeding for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)", may boost IPM – through the development of cultivars with tolerance or resistance to key pests – with an ultimate goal of reducing reliance on conventional pesticides. At the same time, this paradigm has legal and practical implications for future breeding programs, including those targeting sustainable agricultural systems. By putting these issues into the context, this paper presents the key outcomes of a questionnaire survey as well as experts' views expressed during an EU workshop entitled "Breeding for IPM in sustainable agricultural systems".

This book is part of an ongoing series published by CRC Press under the title "Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues." Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy provides an important story of recent efforts in Brazil to move the country away from crisis management to proactive management of droughts in order to demonstrate how development practitioners and government officials might achieve similar paradigm shifts in other countries. The recent advancements in drought management and policy in Brazil, while are in part very technical and scientific in nature, are first told in more of a story-telling format (Chapters 1 through 9) that will appeal to policy makers and development practitioners alike. The more technical details are elaborated upon in the second part of the book (Chapters 10 through 12).

Durante el evento se realizó la conferencia "El cambio climático, escenarios y sus efectos en la Región Trifinio", a cargo del Dr. Raúl Maas, de la Universidad Rafael Landívar de Guatemala, quien enfatizó la necesidad de fortalecer las acciones de adaptación al cambio climático en la región. Asimismo, se llevaron a cabo diversas mesas de diálogo en las que se destacaron los siguientes puntos: La formulación de políticas de adaptación al cambio climático en la región; El fortalecimiento de los espacios de articulación interinstitucional en ámbitos y/o espacios globales y temáticos; y, El desarrollo de estrategias para la gestión sostenible de los recursos hídricos y para el impulso de la agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima. Sobre esta base, las conclusiones y los acuerdos que surgieron se orientan al diseño y desarrollo de acciones claves para la adaptación al cambio climático en la región El foro se realizó en el marco de la Iniciativa "Tierra y Territorios en la Estrategia Centroamericana de desarrollo Rural Territorial (ECADERT)" y la Iniciativa "Plataforma Semiáridos América Latina" que impulsa la ILC ALC. La Fundación Nacional para el Desarrollo (FUNDE), miembro de la ILC en El Salvador, es el punto focal de la iniciativa que aborda la ECADERT y forma parte del grupo impulsor de la Plataforma Semiáridos América Latina.

This report provides an overview of the Agency's performance and financial information for the 2016 fiscal year.

Whilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to recognise or adequately challenge these contexts where they constrain capacity to adapt. To address this failing, we consider how a rights-based approach broadens understanding of adaptive capacity while directing attention towards causes of exclusion and marginalisation. Drawing on human rights principles and lessons from rights-based practice, we develop a novel analytical tool for use with communities that considers adaptive capacity through examination of equality, transparency, accountability and empowerment. We apply this to the illustrative case of aquatic agricultural systems in Timor-Leste. This approach yields a qualitative analysis that unpacks the formal and informal institutions and actors that structure opportunities and barriers to adaptive actions. The rights framing exposes the processes of marginalisation and exclusion that lead to differentiation in adaptive capacity, but at the same time helps identify concrete actions that can be taken as part of a rights-based approach to development support for adaptive capacity. The tool and empirical illustration support an emerging body of thought that adaptive capacity requires development actors to engage not only with the technical challenges of responding to climate change, but also with the social and political context that determines the distribution of costs and benefits.