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Reforming Foodgrains Management: Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness
Kumar, A. Ganesh; Gulati, Ashok; Ralph Cummings, Jr. - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009913
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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal
Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543132
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Gender Impact of Trade Reforms in Indian Plantation Sector: An Exploratory Ananlysis
K, Viswanathan P; Shah, Amita - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA. [NRPPD Discussion Paper]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945249
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Book Review: Of Space and 'Spatialities'
Dantas, Anandi - eSocialSciences - 2010
Review of Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka. Catherine Brun and Tariq Jazeel (Editors). Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2009, 260 pp, Rs. 695.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250456
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Consuming Lives, Consuming Landscapes:Interpreting Advertisements For Cafédirect Coffees
Wright, Caroline - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper explores the marketing strategies of Cafédirect, a company that pays a guaranteed price for coffee to Latin … commodity fetishism, the concern being to reveal the (unequal) social relations underlying conventional coffee production and to … present the consumer with the opportunity to transform such relations through the purchase of fairly traded coffee. In case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528351
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Impact of ASEAN-India FTA on India’s Plantation Commodities: A Simulation Analysis
Saini, Gordhan K; Veeramani, C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial equilibrium modeling approach (SMART model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620631
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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in food aid is exploited which is caused by fluctuations in U.S. wheat production together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493964
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Nutrition Policies in Developing Countries: Challenges and Highlights
Ecker, Olivier; Nene, Marc - eSocialSciences - 2013
There are many nutrition policies in developing countries. What are the challenges faced by these malnutrition policies? There are many countries which have successfully included nutrition in their development agenda. Malnutrition should be given policy priority in the development programmes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945300
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Parking Space for the Poor: Restrictions Imposed on Marketing and Movement of Agricultural Goods in India
Wadhwa, Mayank - eSocialSciences - 2010
Agricultural markets in India have been regulated since 1928 with the inception of the "Royal Commission of Agriculture." Policy intervention in agriculture was virtually absent till the Bengal Famine of 1943, in which more than a million people died. The famine provided a major impetus for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504568
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Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Lohano, Hari Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 with minimal attrition.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512466