Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent … comes from irrigated agriculture, in which groundwater plays a major role. Since the development of groundwater irrigation …

agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …

agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time … in India are also chronically poor in terms of duration as well as severity (Mehta and Shah, 2002). Economic growth … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven … increasing awareness and a felt need for moving away from the input intensive agriculture perused during the Green revolution …

Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the … link between stream flow, agricultural water use and economic returns to agriculture. The study attempts to simulate the … tankbased agriculture in a downstream village. …

This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is demonstrated to be an impediment to …