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  An insight on farmers’ willingness to pay for insurance premium in South India: hindrances and challenges

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2012

  Farmers are vulnerable to substantial weather risks in many parts of India. To this purpose, weather based crop insurance has been recently designed for the rain-fed crops to provide farmers insurance against risks and losses in crop yields resulting from adverse weather.
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  Empowering Small Farmers in India through Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation

  Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 2012

  This PhD dissertation from University of Connecticut investigates how local farming organizations enable and empower small farmers to become independent and selfsufficient.
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  Implementing Farmers’ Rights under the FAO International Treaty on PGRFA: The need for a Broad Approach based on Biocultural Heritage

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011

  The FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) seeks to protect Farmers’ Rights through equitable benefit-sharing from the use of farmers’ crop varieties. It recognises the enormous contribution that indigenous and local communities and farmers have made to the conservation and development of crop genetic resources.
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  Banking for the future: Savings, security and seeds. A short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The global seed market has grown considerably the last decades into a multibillion dollar industry, largely due to more farmers purchasing seeds. Despite the growth in the commercial seed sector, the majority of the farmers in the developing world still depend on the harvest season to collect seeds.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Climate variability and change in the Himalayas: Community perceptions and responses

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011

  This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas.
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  Innovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012

  This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s  empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consumers  and family carers, while transforming gender norms and inequalities within households and communities.
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  Gender, ICTs and Agriculture

  International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002

  This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues:
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  Developing ICT platform for enhancing agricultural productivity:The case study of EID Parry

  2011

  This case study aims to examine the factors that facilitated the diffusion of ICT in a farming community and the benefits of this activity. This case study helps in seeing various factors how EID Parry, the group company of Murugappa Group, being one of the pioneers in the pesticides and agro - products,  created a win -win situation for themselves and the farmers nad building mutual trust.
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  Rising demand for livestock products in India: nature, patterns and implications

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  With a large population and recent growth in consumer income, India’s demand for food has increased. This study examines the demand for livestock products by Indian consumers, and discusses its implications. The study shows that:

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