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    Gender and Food Security In Brief

    BRIDGE, 2015
    This In Brief argues that tackling gender injustice and truly empowering women is not only a fundamental prerequisite for improving food and nutrition security. It needs to be seen as a goal in its own right. In Brief sets out a preliminary vision for gender-just food and nutrition security, which puts the right to food and gender justice at the centre of all interventions.
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    Community-based rights and IPR regime: revisiting the debate

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    India, with a view to fulfil its TRIPS obligations, in 2001, passed the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 20012 (PPVFA). The Act represents a sui generis attempt to balance the rights of farmers with breeders considering the huge farming population in the country.
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    Pro-Poor Value Chain Development for High ValueProducts in Mountain Regions: Indian Bay Leaf

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    Production of high value products and services can help reduce poverty in mountain regions. Value chains can be used to describe the activities and benefits involved in bringing such a product from the producer to the market, and analysed to identify improvements along the chain which, if addressed, yield the highest positive outcome for small producers, traders, and processors.
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    Large cardamom farming in changing climatic and socioeconomic conditions in the Sikkim Himalayas

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014
    This working paper focuses on large cardamom (Amomum subulatum), an important cash crop and livelihood option for people in Sikkim Himalayas, India.
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    Livestock industrialization, trade and social-health-environment impacts in developing countries: a case of Indian poultry sector

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    Poultry is today one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture sector in India. While the production of agricultural crops has been rising at a rate of around 2.0 per cent per annum, this of eggs and broilers has been rising at 8 to 10 per cent per annum. India is today world's fifth largest egg producer and eighteenth largest producer of broiler.
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    Drivers of agricultural diversification in India, Haryana and the Greenbelt farms of India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Traditionally, agricultural diversification is referred to a subsistence kind of farming wherein farmers were cultivating varieties of crops on a piece of land and undertaking several enterprises on their farm portfolio. Household food and income security were the basic objectives of agricultural diversification.
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    Evaluating agricultural policy in a farming system framework: a case study from North West India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Government intervenes in the agricultural sector to achieve particular set of policy objectives. Though short-run objectives of such policy interventions are achieved, the long-run implications of such interventions are sometimes not well understood. Also one set of policy objectives could lead to certain unforeseen consequences not thought of initially.
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    Pattern of agricultural diversification in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Agricultural diversification as measured by increase in the per cent of non-food crops has grown; whereas diversification as measured by the concentration indices has remained unchanged in the recent decade. There have been significant changes in the pattern of agricultural diversification at the regional level.
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    The food-feed-fuel triangle: implications of corn-based ethanol for grain-use competition

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The contemporary world is witnessing certain critical changes in the domain of grain utilisation. With the on-going efforts to substitute fossil fuels with bio-fuels, there has been a rise in the importance of fuel-use of cereals. This adds a new dimension to the food-feed competition that emerged in the 20th century.
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    Technological change and new actors: debate on returns and regulations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effective and rationale regulatory framework.

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