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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management in India

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    The black sheep of Rajasthan

    GRAIN, 2004
    The Raika are a large pastoralist community predominantly found in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, and are one of the largest groups of livestock herders in India, living in the semi-arid areas around the Thar Desert.
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    India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004
    The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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    Participatory irrigation management in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2001
    The state government of Andhra Pradesh, India adopted major reforms in the irrigation sector in the late 1990s, including the transfer of management of irrigation systems to water users associations (WUAs).
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    State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.
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    Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
    This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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    Did BT Cotton fail Andhra Pradesh again in 2003-2004?

    Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2004
    This paper reports on the economic performance of BT Cotton in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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    Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

    Eldis Document Store, 2001
    The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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    Financing of agricultural marketing: case studies from Asia

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
    This study looks at how traders of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their activities and how they use that finance.
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    Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

    Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
    With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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    Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
    This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.

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