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Book Review: Growth, Justice and Globalisation

Kanda, Mohan - eSocialSciences - 2007

Review of: Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities by M. C. Behera; Sage Publications, 2006.

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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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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 …

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Process, People, Power and Conflict: Some Lessons from a Participatory Policy Process in Andhra Pradesh, India

Ahuja, Vinod; Gustafson, Daniel; Otte, Joachim - eSocialSciences - 2008

A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a straightforward process of managing conflicting interests, building consensus, and lining up...

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Irrigation, Agrarian Change and Local Politics: in South Telengana, 1960-1996

Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the irrigated region of South Telengana, Andhra Pradesh. The article is based on a primary survey and two village case studies from Miryalguda Mandal of Nalgonda District, South...

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Agricultural Growth and Price Fluctuations: A Case Study of Production and Prices of Potato in Tripura

Nayak, P.; Bhattacharjee, P.R. - eSocialSciences - 2007

In Tripura also, potato as a crop has been associated with agricultural diversification and modernization. The area under cultivation of potato has increased remarkably during the plan period. This paper is intended to be an attempt to understand the problems associated with growth and price...

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Economic Causes of Tropical Deforestation - A Global Empirical Application

Scrieciu, Silviu S. - eSocialSciences - 2006

The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation literature to indicate which variables should be included in a model of deforestation at an aggregate global level. The paper...

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Union Budget 2006-07: Speech

eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006

The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Governmentâ€™s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National Rural Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services, National Rural Employment...

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Regional and Gender Disparity in Agricultural Wages

Ghatak, Shambhu - eSocialSciences - 2006

This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Keralaâ€™s performance in maintaining gender equal wages has been poor in recent years.

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Groundwater Users, Wake up: Danger Ahead! Message from the Experts

Raju, K.V.; Babu, Lenin; Nanjundaiah, C.; Mukerjee, Sarbani - eSocialSciences - 2007

The Expert Group constituted by the Planning commission to examine issues related to groundwater management and ownership has made extensive recommendations tha need to be taken seriously. Most importantly it points to the urgency of addressing the issue of groundwater depletion. A quick review...

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