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Mitigating Climate Change Through Agriculture

Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011

Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …

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The Costs of Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Adopting Organic Agriculture

Markandya, Anil; Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Hui, Qiao Yu; … - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the …:[http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.02.09.wp193.cost.mdg.organic.agriculture.pdf]. …

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Corporate Sustainability a Panacea for Growth: Values, Convictions and Acrions

Padmanabhan, G - eSocialSciences - 2014

Can corporate sustainability aid growth, create value and actions on environmental protection? The answer can be … calibrating the corporate sustainability action commands. Please remember that a company is an artificial person with perpetual … existence. The society trusts it to exist for ever to serve posterity ad infinitum. The sustainability has therefore to balance …

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Climate Change, Agriculture, Poverty and Livelihoods: A Status Report

Ninan, K N; Bedamatta, Satyasiba - eSocialSciences - 2013

This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section of crops, seasons and …

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Debating Poverty

eSS, eSocialSciences - eSocialSciences - 2014

Krishna Agriculture: Is it a Destination for the Poor? by R S Deshpande Can the Rights based NREGA Reduce Poverty? by K …

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Understanding the Dynamics of Socio-Economic Mobility: Tales from Two Indian Villages

Wilson, Caroline - eSocialSciences - 2013

The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Paper No. 236].

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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion

Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011

Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...

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Escaping Chronic Poverty Through Economic Growth

eSocialSciences; Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC - 2010

poverty. Also the paper discusses important policy levers, in relation to agriculture, urbanization, social protection and …

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Poverty and Agrarian Distress in Orissa

Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2009

explanation lies in the state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47 per cent …

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Note on the Draft National Food Security Bill

Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2011

As agreed by the NAC at its meeting on July 14th, 2010, a Working Group of Members of the NAC was constituted on the National Food Security Bill. After due deliberations and wide ranging consultations, the NAC finalized the details of the basic framework of the proposed National Food Security...

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