India and Food security
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- Trends in climate variability that men and women farmers face to ensure food security
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in India Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. This FAO study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document ...
- Improving markets for fresh food retail in India
- N. Singla; S. Singh; P.K. Dhindsa / AgEcon Search, 2011
- Linking primary producers with global and national markets through fresh food retail chains is seen as one of the emerging agricultural marketing practices in India to improve small producer’s livelihoods. This paper examines th...
- Gender inequality, mothers' health, and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India
- Suniti Neogy / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article features the project Inner Spaces Outer Faces Imitative (ISOFI) which aims to improve maternal and new born health outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh, primarily by challenging gender norms which prevent equal distribution of...
- Consequences of maternal and child undernutrition on adult health and human capital
- C. G. Victora / The Lancet, 2008
- This paper reviews the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. Data is analysed from ?ve long-standing prospective cohort st...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- M. Dhawan (ed); M. Punjabi (ed); V. Ahuja (ed) / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme, 2009
- There is a growing evidence about the role that backyard poultry production can play in sustaining and enhancing poor peoples’ livelihoods. Market oriented backyard poultry is increasingly recognised as a stepping stone for the ...
- Bird flu and people's livelihoods: how much is lost?
- V. Ahuja; M. Dhawan; L. Maarse / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme, 2009
- This report outlines the impact of bird flu on poor people’s livelihoods in West Bengal, India. Based on a survey of about 180 rural households raising ‘Kuroilers’ (a dual purpose bird introduced by Keggfarms Pvt. Lt...
- Rising food prices and farmer seed access: what are the impacts?
- M. Smale; M. Cohen; L. Nagarajan / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- This report provides case-specific responses to key seed policy issues based on the relationship between seed markets and high food prices, which were discussed at the project findings meeting at FAO in May 2008. The paper answers key...
- Potential effects of introducing GM foods in four Asian countries
- G. Gruere; A. Bouet; S. Mevel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
- This paper studies the potential effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trade-related regulations of GM food in major importers. It focuses o...
- Fighting cycles of quiet starvation
- Stephen Devereux; Bapu Vaitla; Samuel H. Swan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- Seasonality is the most neglected dimension of rural deprivation. Seasonal hunger amongst poor rural people is a permanent global crisis, affecting seven out of every ten hungry people in the world. How can policymakers and developmen...
- Rising food prices entrench children in poverty trap
- Stefan Dercon / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- Food prices have increased dramatically in both world markets and local markets since 2006. Children are suffering as a result. In Ethiopia, where food prices have risen by more than 50 percent in the last year, around a th...
- Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi
- Right to food campaign, India
- General Information Service Terminal - National Informatics Centre, India (GISTNIC)
- Indian host for databases and WWW sites. Data hosted includes: (a) India Population Census 1991 Database: provides the Primary Census Abstract of about 30 demographic parameters such as total/rural/urban populations with break up of male, female, SC/ST, literate, persons below 7 years, workers in various categories as agriculture, mining, household, industry, etc. This information is available...
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Research centre concentrating on the crop improvement and farming systems for sorghum, millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut: acts as a world repository for the genetic resources of these crops. Databases include: (a) SATRCIS: bibliographical database on semi-arid tropical crops (b) Database on groundnut alfatoxin problems (available on diskette) (c) Library
