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  Rural non-farm employment in India: access, income and poverty impact

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2002

  This paper attempts to assess the contribution of non-farm incomes to the total incomes of different sectors of the Indian rural population; examines the factors associated with employment in the non-farm sector; and studies the direct impact of the sector on agricultural wage rates.
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  Agroindustrialisation – an antidote to rural poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Agroindustralisation – the transition towards more commercialised agriculture systems – has potential to provide the poor with off-farm employment, stimulate economic growth and promote security. However, there is a crucial need to provide poor rural people with appropriate skills and to overhaul currently inadequate systems of agricultural education and training (AET).
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  Gender budgeting analysis: a study in Maharashtra’s agriculture

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact that state budgets of Maharashtra, India had on women in agriculture between 1998 to 2002.
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  Seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.
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  Trends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.
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  Financing agricultural marketing: The Asian experience

  Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2004

  Reporting an exploratory study, this paper looks at how traders and processors of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their marketing activities and how they use that finance.The paper concludes that lack of working capital is probably not a major constraint to the functioning of agricultural marketing systems in Asia.
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  Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

  Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002

  This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.
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  Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2003

  This paper develops a locally relevant scale of social capital to assess whether and how it mattered for development performance in 69 north Indian villages.
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  Significance of rural non farm sector in enterprise development

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  This paper argues that the Indian government could be more actively involved in creating the necessary environment for effective public-private partnerships.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.

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