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TIGR2ESS: Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies

A Global Challenges Research Fund project
 

Read more at: Understanding the field through diversity and distance

Understanding the field through diversity and distance

14 October 2021

During the Summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to undertake a remote internship with Flagship Project 1 (FP1) START (Sustainable and Transformative Agrarian and Rural Trajectories) of the TIGR2ESS programme. For six weeks, I worked remotely to collate five detailed site profiles for each of the FP1 field sites, from the...


Read more at: TIGR2ESS wins the Vice-Chancellor’s Collaboration Award!

TIGR2ESS wins the Vice-Chancellor’s Collaboration Award!

11 October 2021

The TIGR2ESS project, led by Professor Howard Griffiths, Head of the Department's Physiological Ecology Research Group , has won the Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award. The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards recognise outstanding achievement, innovation and creativity in devising and implementing...


Read more at: Site Profiles of the Sustainable Agriculture and Transformative Rural and Agrarian Strategies (START) Project

Site Profiles of the Sustainable Agriculture and Transformative Rural and Agrarian Strategies (START) Project

1 October 2021

‘Sustainable and Transformative Rural and Agrarian Strategies’ (START) is a flagship research project under the Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies (TIGR2ESS) Programme, funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The research was undertaken...





Read more at: Land degradation and coastal agriculture: history and restoration targets

Land degradation and coastal agriculture: history and restoration targets

28 August 2021

Environmental and anthropogenic factors have driven the degradation of agricultural land in a delta region of Tamil Nadu, India. Here, Dr Pratheepa and Dr Rengalakshmi of MSSRF and TIGR2ESS Flagship Project 1 describe the causes and effects of increased soil salinity on coastal agriculture and recent efforts towards land restoration.