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Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh: a three-year assessment
Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2005This paper investigates the case of GM (Genetically Modified) Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is based on a three-year assessment of farmers' engagement with Bt cotton, examining the economics of its adoption, and the resultant difficulties faced by farmers.DocumentIndia’s national agricultural policy: a critique
Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004The 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 blamDocumentState transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.DocumentEnsuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.DocumentDid BT Cotton fail Andhra Pradesh again in 2003-2004?
Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2004This paper reports on the economic performance of BT Cotton in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.DocumentAccessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries
Eldis Document Store, 2001The 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 industrialDocumentExtension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative
Overseas Development Institute, 2002This 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.DocumentKingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.DocumentImproving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water
US Agency for International Development, 2000Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels.