Agricultural and food system transformation helps increase farm productivity and encourages farmers to participate in updated value chains, adopt newer technologies, thereby helping farmers transform their livelihoods in a sustainable manner. Relatedly, value chain innovations depend on multiple...

Agricultural and food system transformation helps increase farm productivity and encourages farmers to participate in updated value chains, adopt newer technologies, thereby helping farmers transform their livelihoods in a sustainable manner. Relatedly, value chain innovations depend on multiple...

"Nutrition Economics: Principles and Policy Applications establishes the core criteria for consideration as new policies and regulations are developed, including application-based principles that ensure practical, effective implementation of policy. From the economic contribution of nutrition on...

Using contingent valuation methodology, we present results for farmers' willingness to pay for reliable power, for a sample of 450 farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. We find that small and marginal farmers place a positive value to reliable power. We derive these estimates in a context where electric...

Consistent with Human Capital Theory we show that observed earnings differentials are higher, based on the type of education. We track women employees in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and, estimate the source of earnings differential, and...