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At the recent TIGR2ESS General Assembly at ICRISAT , Hyderabad we were joined by Dr Hirut Assaye Cherie and and her PhD student Helen Walle Endalew from Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. Hirut and Helen are partners on MillNETi, a sister project to TIGR2ESS which aims to improve the iron nutrition status of people living in Ethiopia and The Gambia. As a sister project, MillNETi will build on learnings from India, and help build research links between India, The Gambia and Ethiopia. Here, Hirut and Helen discuss their takeaways from a week at ICRISAT.

Owing to the sheer diversity of the nation, development work in India is inextricably linked to ethical challenges. These challenges become more intense when ‘development’ translates across marginalised communities, who already have a long history of exploitation. Here, Gautam Bisht and Shuvajit Chakraborty from TIGR2ESS Flagship Project 1 collaborator PRADAN highlight the work of youth group Lahanti Club, which is invested in transforming an alienating education system into one which is inclusive of indigenous socio-cultural capital.

On Saturday 19 October, as part of Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas, three TIGR2ESS researchers from very different fields got together to share how past, present and future technology could provide solutions to India’s water crisis.

Charles is reading for a Masters in Climate Change and International Development at the University of East Anglia, under the supervision of TIGR2ESS FP6 co-lead Dr Nitya Rao. He is a film artist and works in agroecology, permaculture and small-scale urban farming. Charles recently submitted his dissertation on how the agroecological method Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is reaching scale in Andhra Pradesh, South India. He spoke with TIGR2ESS Impact Manager Sarah Bailey to tell her all about his research.