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    Productivity and efficiency impacts of zero tillage wheat in Northwest Indo-Gangetic Plains

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being developed for the cereal production systems of South Asia to address the multifaceted problems of decelerating agricultural productivity, resource scarcity, climate change, and negative environmental externalities generated by the conventional production system.
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    Gender gap in life expectancy in India, 1970-2006

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Worldwide, women enjoyed longer life expectancy at birth than men for the first time in human history in the mid-2000s. In India, both genders have experienced a continuous rise in life expectancy since the 1970s, and the transition to female dominance in life expectancy also occurred around 2000. Nevertheless, the pace of mortality stagnated in the 1990s and 2000s.
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    Cash vs in-kind transfers: Indian data meets theory

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    In their comprehensive survey on the theoretical arguments for in-kind transfers, Currie and Gahvari (2008) note a ‘disconnect between the theoretical and empirical work on in-kind transfers. Many theories seem to be unmotivated by deep knowledge of the programmes and the empirical work seems to largely accept the paternalism theory and move on to other questions.’
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    Democratic politics and legal rights: employment guarantee and food security in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Since 2004, legislation related to social and economic rights has been taken up with renewed energy in India. In its first term, from 2004 to 2009, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government enacted the Right to Information Act 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, and the Forest Rights Act 2006; in its second term, the Right to Education Act came into force.
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    Are women’s issues synonymous with gender in India? Looking across geographic space

    2013
    Gender studies in Asia, as in the rest of the world, tend to focus almost exclusively on women and their disparate social status, and unequal access to healthcare, education facilities, assets, and economic opportunities. Addressing inequalities is imperative not merely from the human rights perspective, but also to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth.
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    Changing livelihoods in Delhi’s periphery, circa 1930–2012

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    Every country that moved out of poverty went through major shifts in its occupational profile too.
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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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    Technology Transfer in India: CBD, institutions, actors, typologies and perceptions. Sector: Herbal Medicines (biopharmaceuticals, botanicals and personal care products and cosmetics)

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014
    The Convention on Biologcal Diversity (CBD) recognises that both access to and transfer of technologies are essential for the attainment of its objectives. This report explores a number of issues related to technology transfer with a particular focus on India asking questions on: typologies, actors, and institutions, perceptions and mechanisms.
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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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    Custodian farmers of agricultural biodiversity: selected profiles from South and South East Asia

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2013
    Agriculture is the largest global user of biodiversity. Over-reliance on a handful of crops puts global food security at great risk especially in the context of climate change. Selected and used by generations of farmers, agricultural biodiversity contributes to reducing malnutrition, alleviating poverty and combating climate change challenges.

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