Episode 1: Playing Games to Save Water in India

Research Talks

Sivan Yosef interviews IFPRI’s Ruth Meinzen-Dick & FES’s Jagdeesh Rao to understand their novel approach to forge cooperation among communities to conserve a shared resource, such as water. How do you get people to cooperate in conserving shared resources like water? IFPRI (https://www.ifpri.org/) partnered with an Indian non-profit organization called the Foundation for Ecological Security ( http://fes.org.in/) and they decided to use something that is just as fun as it sounds—experimental games. Interviewee: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Jagdeesh Rao Interviewer: Sivan Yosef Producer: Sivan Yosef Editor: Sivan Yosef