Green Bullet innovations

Green Bullet innovations refers to a set of several grassroots innovations flourishing worldwide to boost agricultural production to tackle hunger aimed at feeding world of 9 billion by 2050. As per experts, by 2050, the planet will need at least 70 per cent more food than it does today to meet both an expected rise in population to 9 billion from 7 billion and changing appetites as many poor people grow richer. Some recent initiatives include:

• In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks.
• In Kenya’s Kibera slum, poor urban families are turning around their diets and incomes just by learning to grow vegetables in sack gardens outside their doors.

In India, rural women in India’s Andhra Pradesh state now use advance drought warnings, relayed by Internet and mobile phone, to switch to more drought-tolerant crops — a move that has saved harvests and helped stem the usual wave of migration to cities in drought times.