This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …

Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop … India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age … between farm and non-farm activities. Also, the welfare of self-employed in agriculture became more sensitive to rainfall …

included, these must be balanced against potential costs. This report explores why agriculture is different from other sectors …. Agriculture’s diffuse and diverse emissions are inherently difficult to measure. They also fluctuate in response to environmental … factors such as climate and biophysical characteristics. It is problematic to include the agriculture sector in the ETS, at …

Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …

analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …