Written by Devanshi Srivastava INDIA IS set to overtake the United States as a creator of knowledge on reducing hunger, according to a report presented at the seminar ‘Accessible Science: Fostering Collaboration’ held at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) on Friday during the run-up to the 4th Education G20 Working Group Meeting. The number of research papers from India relating to the theme of ‘UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger’ has grown annually by 25 per cent between 2017 and 2022, the report said. At this rate, it said, India is projected to have the highest number of publications, second only to China, on reducing hunger. “The relation between knowledge and application of knowledge is most important,” said Carlos Henrique Brito Cruz, Professor Emeritus at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and a Senior Vice-President, Research Networks at Elsevier, UK, while presenting the report. The report titled ‘The status and relevance of research collaborations for development, considering G20 nations’ was launched by Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar. Speaking on the occasion, Sarkar called for the development of “interactive games and exploring multidimensional aspects of Indian knowledge systems including ganita and jyamiti, ie, the Indian system of mathematics and geometry and vastu vidya”. The report, which analyses the status and impact of research publications from G20 nations, draws on data taken from Scopus, an over 85 million-item strong database of peer reviewed research articles created by Elsevier.
