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  Incorporating International Best Practices in the Preparation Of Agricultural Outlook and Situation Analysis Reports for India - Phase II: FAO/UNDP

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013

  The need for monitoring and analysis of emerging food scenarios is important for India both because of significant dependence of output on the monsoon rains (the kharif season) and the fact that globally India is one of the major consumers of food crops influencing markets.
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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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  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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  Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011

  The food price crisis of the last decade provided an impetus to the discussions on sustainable development of agriculture. What has since emerged is the belief that agricultural policies need to be revamped to meet the growing demands for food and fibre in most countries.
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  Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2012

  The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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  The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Is there a difference between the current and the traditional value chains of staples in Asia? This study investigates how domestic staples value chains are structured and performing in three Asian countries (Bangladesh, China and India) in recent years.
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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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  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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  Linking small farmers to emerging agricultural marketing systems in India: the case study of a fresh food retail chain in Punjab

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Linking primary producers with global and national markets through fresh food retail chains is seen as one of the emerging agricultural marketing practices in India to improve small producer’s livelihoods. This paper examines the operations of a fresh food retail chain named ‘Easy Day’ and its interface with farmers in Punjab.
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  The response of consumption to income shocks: evidence from the Indian trade liberalization

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  In the past two decades, India has enacted a number of policies, including a dramatic trade liberalisation, that in part aim to reduce the incidence of both poverty and food insecurity. This study focuses on how households employed in industries exposed to large tariff decreases cope with the negative income shocks caused by the increased import competition.

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