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    Promotion of the off-season vegetable value chain in India

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2015
    The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) includes remote portions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and contiguous areas of Nepal and India. The landscape is environmentally fragile and its people are highly vulnerable to climate change and environmental degradation.
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    India and Africa - collaboration for growth

    KPMG, 2016
    The nature of India’s relationship with Africa is clearly evolving into a wider, deeper engagement that, while clearly in India’s advantage, also offers significant potential benefits to its African counterparts. This overview of Indian/African economic collaboration is a joint piece of work from KPMG and the Confederation of Indian Industry.  It specifically looks at:
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    Child Underweight, Land Productivity and Public Services: A District-Level Analysis for India

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016
    Though India’s rank has improved in the Global Hunger Index, contributed largely by the fall in the underweight rates for children, concerns of high level of undernutrition in predominantly agricultural pockets remain.
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    Prospects of Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The concept of Blue Economy is emerging as a new narrative on productive and sustainable engagement with the vast development opportunities that oceanic resources offer. The important sectors of Blue Economy are fisheries, sea-minerals including oil and gas, ports and shipping, marine tourism, marine biotechnology, deep-sea mining, and transport and logistics.
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    Science, technology, innovation in India and sccess, inclusion and equity: discourses, measurement and emerging challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in economic growth is well accepted. Tracing the debate on the role of science in Indian society in the pre-1947 India, the discourses and narratives on science, technology and society in India are mapped and their impact on policies is discussed.
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    Agriculture and nutrition in India: mapping evidence to pathways

    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014
    In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition.
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    Learning From the Past: Framing of Undernutrition in India Since Independence and Its Links to Agriculture

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016
    Understanding policy debates from the past can help to explain and address the challenges of today. Agriculture can play an important role in the reduction of undernutrition in India. However, the nutrition-enhancing potential of agriculture remains underused.
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    Land, labour and migrations: understanding Kerala's economic modernity

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2009
    This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under cultivation.
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    Compliance, competitiveness and market access: a study on Indian seafood industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    This study attempts to estimate the effects of the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in terms of trade elasticity of regulations and competitiveness of exports. In spite of the generalised acknowledgment of growing liberalization of trade between countries, there are still numerous obstacles to trade, more of the non-tariff type.
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    Employment growth in rural India: distress driven?

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008
    A turnaround in employment growth was recorded in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in the agriculture sector that included low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness.

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