date:May 16, 2013
Increasing the productivity of rainfed agriculture, which still supplies about 60 per cent of the world's food, would make a significant impact on the global food production. This will be discussed at the annual meeting of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) grant programme, Sustainable Management of Crop-based Production Systems for Raising Agricultural Productivity in Rainfed Asia, which is slated to take place in Vientiane, the People's Democratic Republic (PDR) of Laos