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    Does participatory development legitimise collusion mechanisms? evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2011
    The 1990s were an eventful period for decentralized development, including attempts at watershed development in the rural areas of India. Watershed development is an approach to raise agricultural productivity, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty in the semi-arid tropical regions of the world, including the South Asian region.
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    Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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    Food price inflation in India: causes and cures

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2012
    Inflation in general and food price inflation in particular has been a persistent problem in India over the past few years. Price stability is crucial for sustainable growth as persistent inflation implies higher demand relative to supply.
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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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    Agro-industry as the ‘Mahayana’ of international cooperation: a world waiting to be born

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    A highly positive sum game awaits the community of nations if a cooperative international programme for rural industrialization in the developing world generally, through a boost to the agro-industry (supplier) sector world-wide, could be brought into play. The rural economy, which is the mainstay of the bulk of the population in most developing coun
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    Synthetic biology in India: issues in risk, power and governance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Synthetic biology is an emerging technology that can facilitate ‘design’ and ‘creation’ of micro-organisms which may not be found in nature. Synthetic biology is considered as an amalgamation of principles of engineering and biology. Globally synthetic biology has advanced rapidly in the last decade; however, in India it is in nascent stages.
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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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    Agriculture and child under-nutrition in India: a state level analysis

    Madras School of Economics, India, 2014
    The basic rationale for exploring agriculture-nutrition linkage in developing countries is the existence of high level of undernutrition among rural population and a high level of their dependence on agriculture for livelihood.
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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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