Baseline Survey results from the Agriculture and Open Data project can be viewed below:
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Baseline Survey results from the Agriculture and Open Data project can be viewed below:
Download PDF EmailToday I participated in a Zoom meeting organized by the Nightwatchman Society attended by around 200 participants where the above question was discussed by a panel of four, including myself. The recording of the discussion is here.
Now is the right time to rethink food-supply chains. As the expected shocks from climate change (longer droughts, more floods, etc.
In previous research going back to 2006, LIRNEasia has studied food supply chains, including, but not limited to, fruit and vegetable supply chains in Sri Lanka centered on Sri Lanka’s largest wholesale market in Dambulla which was recently shut down by the government along with several other wholesale markets. The closures were preceded by scenes of massive over supply, frustrated farmers throwing away unsold produce in large quantities, claims that the traditional traders were exploitative “middlemen,” and counterclaims that politicians were seeking to replace them, etc.
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