Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food in India

Showing 61-70 of 348 results

Pages

  • Document

    Peasant classes, farm incomes and rural indebtedness: an analysis of household production data from two states

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2009
    The crisis and stagnation in Indian agriculture have persisted for over a decade and are not showing any signs of reversal. Falling real product prices faced by primary commodity producers have been one of the central causes for escalating farm indebtedness.
  • Document

    Short duration migration in India: an appraisal from census 2001

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2011
    Short duration migration has played a crucial role in enabling rural people to cope with the consequences of agrarian distress and devastated rural economic conditions. Seasonal migration, in particular, has always been a phenomenon guided by the needs specific to time. 
  • Document

    Assessing the Effectiveness of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Conceptual Framework

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015
    South Asia has experienced rapid economic growth, yet it still has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, and half the population is undernourished. Besides children, undernutrition among women and adolescent girls is also a major concern. The lack of progress in solving undernutrition, in all its guises, reflects in part the complexity of factors involved.
  • Document

    Weather variability, agriculture and rural migration: evidence from state and district level migration in India

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014
    Fast growing economies like India are likely to witness increasing disparity in living standards between rural and urban areas, with a corresponding increase in migration from rural to urban areas. The weather sensitivity of agriculture and the increasing vulnerability of crop yields to both weather extremes and changing weather conditions are likely to further accelerate the rural to rura
  • Document

    Public investment and agricultural productivity: a state-wise analysis of foodgrains in India

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2007
    This study examines the long-run relationship between public investment and foodgrain productivity across the 15 major states of India. The analysis is confined to the period, 1974-’75 to 2005-’06. It does so by using Koyck’s Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ADL).
  • Document

    To cultivate or not? examining factors that influence jatropha agriculture in north east India

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014
    India’s biofuel policy seeks to increase demand for biodiesel to 16.72 million tons by 2017 and encourages 20% blending of biodiesel with other fuels (Planning Commission, 2003). The main source for biodiesel is the plant jatropha, which is a relatively new crop in Indian agriculture (Raja et al., 2011; Aradhey, 2013).
  • Document

    Common futures: India and Africa in partnership

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Africa with its 54 countries is over ten times the size of India but has roughly the same population -- just over one billion people. The demographic structures are also very similar. In India more than fifty percent of the population is below the age of twenty five and in most African states, half or more of thepopulation is under twenty five years of age.
  • Document

    Dietary Diversity and Women’s BMI among Farm Households in Rural India

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015
    Undernutrition is more widespread and persistent in South Asia, including India, with higher numbers of undernourished people living in rural areas. Indian evidence often shows a weak linkage between agriculture and nutrition, though there is ample scope for agriculture to contribute towards reducing undernutrition.
  • Document

    Solar Pumps for Sustainable Irrigation in India

    Council on Energy, Environment and Water, 2015
    Researchers in this study put forward a budget-neutral approach for incentivising the adoption of solar pumps in India. The study also looks at parity between solar and electric pumps from economic perspective, i.e. NPV (net present value) of the expenses to be incurred by the farmer. 
  • Document

    India's FTAs with East and SE Asia: impact of India-Malaysia CECA on the edible oil value chain

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. The paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead others alternative lenses of the impacts on the commodity value chain.

Pages