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, transport cost, and local rainfall and terrain slope. [CGD Working Paper 280]. URL:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1425820_file_Wheeler_et_al_Forest_Clearing_Indonesia.pdf]. …
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influence the adoption and continued production of Jatropha plantations in North East India. …
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Opposing views persist with regard to the emergence of plantations in southern India and the transfer of slave labour … to these plantations: the abolition of slavery as an end in itself and, second, as a means to an end. In spite of the … fact that slavery had been abolished by the mid-nineteenth century, workers on plantations found themselves no better off …
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Ever since plantation agriculture initiated by European capital and enterprise became an important form of exploitation of resources in the colonies, small holdings and small holders in the plantation sector were considered a separate category. There were a number of European proprietary...
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The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade unions, NGOs and international organisations aimed at developing strategies by which...
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The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques, practices and changing dynamics of contract farming in India.
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Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smallholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this regard, new initiatives of reorganizaing the production systems are being attempted in the form...
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This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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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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This is a case study of the Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme for rural farmers and peasants in Karnataka. The scheme, now in its second year of operation, covers 2.2 million farmers and peasants who pay an annual premium of Rupees 60 ($1.50) for comprehensive coverage of all surgical...
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