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Marketing of Bt Cotton in India: Aggressive, Unscrupulous and False….
eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap in India.
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Andhra Pradesh Budget Speech 2009-10
Pradesh, Government Andhra - eSocialSciences - 2009
Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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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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Local Knowledge and Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Pradhan Tribe in Adilabad District
K, Anil Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pradhans are still subsistence farmers, who primarily depend on agriculture. Subsistence economy and food security of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002291
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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...
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Agricultural Productivity and Credit- Issues and Way Forward
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …
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Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2011
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 …
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Constraints in Birth Registration: Case Study in Andhra Pradesh
George, Alex - eSocialSciences - 2005
What are the constraints to efficient birth registration? How do people view the compulsory registering of births? This paper reports on a Readiness Assessment study on Universal Birth Registration in Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh. The study was aimed at assessing and documenting the...
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Inclusive Growth in Andhra Pradesh: Challenges in Agriculture, Poverty, Social Sector and Regional Disparities
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2008
The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth, employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and reduction in regional and other disparities. This paper focuses on these four elements of inclusive growth. It suggests several policies for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528146