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  Demand for price insurance among farmers in India: a choice experiment-based approach

  2014

  Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output prices.
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  Anomaly in decision-making under risk: violation of stochastic dominance among farmers in Gujarat, India

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014

  Agriculture is characterised by exposure to numerous risks in the context of natural, institutional, and regulatory environments. Farmers in developing countries tend to be conservative in their resource allocation decisions and allocate their resources to safe, low-risk, low-return activities. Also, in general, risk aversion and adoption of innovations are found to be inversely related.
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  Many lives of women farmers: empowering women farmers in Vidarbha

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2010

  Globally and nationally, the role of women in agriculture - including crop and animal husbandry, fisheries and forestry - is growing. In spite of the pivotal role played by women in natural resources conservation, cultivation, consumption and commerce, the support systems for such women are very meager.
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  Reflections of women farmers: Programme for the empowerment of women farmers, Vidarbha (Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana)

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2014

  Vidarbha, the hot spot of agrarian crisis, has an unenviable record of suicides by farmers in recent decades. The crisis has accentuated the vulnerability of women farmers in general, and the widows of the farmers who have committed suicide in particular.
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  No longer tracking greenery in high altitudes: pastoral practices of Rupshu nomads and their implications for biodiversity conservation

  Pastoralism, 2013

  Nomadic pastoralism has thrived in Asia’s rangelands for several millennia by tracking seasonal changes in forage productivity and coping with a harsh climate. This pastoralist lifestyle, however, has come under intense transformations in recent decades due to socio-political and land use changes.
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  Invisible helpers - women's views on the contributions of working donkeys, horses and mules to their lives

  2014

  In 2011 there were an estimated 112 million working equine animals in the world, with 43 million donkeys, 11 million mules, and 58 million horses. The large majority of these animals live in developing countries and provide daily support to hundreds of millions of poor households by doing a wide range of work in both urban and rural areas.
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  Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011

  The food price crisis of the last decade provided an impetus to the discussions on sustainable development of agriculture. What has since emerged is the belief that agricultural policies need to be revamped to meet the growing demands for food and fibre in most countries.
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  Creating good employment opportunities for the rural sector

  Asian Development Bank, 2011

  Despite increasing urbanisation in Asia countries, a large fraction of Asia’s poor remain in rural areas. This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper presents key findings from a study of pro-poor agricultural growth (PPAG). Over the past few decades changes such as those surrounding ecology, liberalisation and HIV and AIDS have increased the challenges facing the rural poor. The authors outline a framework for new responses to these challenges in the context of PPAG.

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