This project (IFAD TAG 634) is implemented in 12 sites covering Gangetic plains in part of Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The objectives of the project are: To identify policy and institutional changes that enable community-level participatory research and enhanced uptake of sustainable agricultural technologies for improving farmers’ livelihoods. To demonstrate and verify at the community level promising sustainable agricultural technologies and promote their accelerated adoption. To formulate and recommend new policies and strategies for accelerating the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in similar rainfed environments of the eastern Gangetic Plains The expected outputs from the program are: (a) Enabling environment for validation of technologies through community based decentralized farmer-participatory research facilitated; (b) Farmers'' demand for technologies at the systems level assessed for each site and a package of available technologies recommended for validation; (c) Uptake of improved technologies fast tracked; and (d) Capacity of selected stakeholders in ICT-based information management on improved agricultural technologies enhanced.