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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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  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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  Building urban food resilience: assessing the peri-urban food system in Kathmandu Nepal

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008

  This report from ISET-Nepal describes how agricultural production in urban and peri-urban areas of inland city, Kathmandu, has become unable to meet food security demands due to rapid urban growth and decreased water availability and water pollution. The report describes the physical, environmental and social vulnerabilities of the food system and populations of the Kathmandu valley.
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  Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.
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  Thirsty, hungry and no power? : African resources in a global world

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014

  Water, food and energy are fundamental to African development. However, several crucial issues need to be addressed. Are African resources used to meet African needs or are they being exploited to satisfy the needs of other actors facing food and energy insecurity?
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  Smallholder Farming and Achieving Our Development Goals

  2014

  A thriving smallholder farm sector can be an engine for rural development that is more equitable, sustainable, and productive than one based on a large-scale farm model. A number of factors need to be considered when assessing the benefits of smallholder farming.
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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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