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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699187
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One Planet to Share: Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate
eSocialSciences; United Nations Development Programme UNDP - 2012
In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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Agricultural Outlook and Situational Analysis Report - January - March 2014
eSocialSciences; National Council of Applied Economic … - 2014
Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coarse grains), pulses (gram, tur), selected fruits and vegetables (banana, potato, onion), sugarcane...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945228
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Compensating Wages for Occupational Risks of Farm Workers in India
P, Indira Devi; Shanmugam, K R; Jayasree, M. - eSocialSciences - 2013
Farm workers incur various occupational related risks. The question is whether they are adequately compensated for facing these risks? This paper attempts to measure the wage premiums that farm workers in India receive for health risks associated with their jobs, using a primary survey data...
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Economic Policies and Agricultural Incentives: The Philippine Case
David, Cristina C. - eSocialSciences - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover public expenditures for agricultural support services which influence agricultural incentives by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945372
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Spatial Convergence and Growth in Indian Agriculture: 1967-2010
Chaterjee, Tirtha - eSocialSciences - 2014
Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in … Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. It finds strong evidence in favour of … states. The study also identifies the drivers of growth agriculture in the last four and a half decades and results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945378
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Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced Farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a private owner or local government with a legally man-dated sharecropping...
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