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    Improving farm-to-market linkages through contract farming. a case study of smallholder dairying in India

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    This study is an empirical assessment of the costs and benefits of contract farming in dairying in India, focussing on productivity, production and transaction costs, milk prices, and profitability. Using field survey-based data from the western state of Rajasthan, the authors show that contract farming is more profitable than independent production. Its major benefits come from:
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    Getting out of the food crisis

    GRAIN, 2008
    The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.
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    Meso-level restructuring of the food industry in developing countries: synthesis report - meso study

    Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008
    Rapid changes are taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agrifood markets in developing countries, affecting the agricultural sector's ability to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.
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    Behind agrarian distress

    Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 2006
    Based a survey conducted in three villages in the Indian state of Orissa, this article suggests that apart from the production failures and risks encountered in the increasingly volatile output markets, access to credit and terms of borrowing have emerged as main causes of the agrarian crisis in India.
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    Suicide seeds? biotechnology meets the developmental state

    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This article examines the biotechnology debate in India focusing on transgenic seeds. The author presents the rifts and battles in this sector, highlighting the influence of farmers, journalists, environmental activists, government officials, and the international community.
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    Measures of impact of science and technology in India: agriculture and rural development

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2008
    The revolutions in agriculture, health and education witnessed during the last century were mostly the products of public research supported by governments and philanthropic institutions. Recently, however, there has been a shift away from public research toward commercially profitable research supported by the private sector and protected by intellectual property rights (IPR).
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    Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006
    Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hil
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    Public investment and poverty reduction: lessons from China and India

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    This article argues that public investments in rural areas have contributed significantly to agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in China and India.
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    Resource-poor farmers in South India: on the margins or frontiers of globalisation

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus marginalised.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?

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