IFAD Annual Review Meeting, Raipur, India Wednesday, January 18, 2006; Ends Friday, January 20, 2006
The second Annual Review Meeting of the IFAD project was held in Raipur, Chhatisgarh, India.
The IFAD]supported project entitled gAccelerating Technology Adoption to Improve Rural
Livelihoods in the Rainfed Eastern Gangetic Plainsh was launched in September 2003. The
goal of the project is to contribute to poverty reduction through a sustainable increase in the
productivity and conservation of resources, and through diversification of the rice]based
cropping systems in the rainfed environments in the Indo]Gangetic Plains. The objectives of
the project are (1) to identify policy and institutional changes that enable community]level
participatory research and enhanced uptake of sustainable agricultural technologies for
improving farmersf livelihoods, (2) to demonstrate and verify at the community level
promising sustainable agricultural technologies and promote their accelerated adoption, and
(3) to formulate and recommend policies and strategies for accelerating the adoption of
validated income]enhancing and resource]conserving technologies in similar rainfed
environments of the eastern Gangetic plains.
