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-blocks to innovation. In business women face gender bias in recruitment, sexual harassment in the workplace, and income … through a process of enabling social, health and political conditions that favour women. Since agriculture is increasingly …
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and continuing evolution of SRI in India and presents SRI as an innovation in process and not as a completed product …. Farmers and other actors are continuously shaping it through their practice. Part II focuses on insights of the innovation … hightlights the implications for pro-poor innovation. …
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Most of 726 million rural populations in India is dependent on agriculture. Rice is the staple food of nearly 65% of … agriculture is in the dynamic path in transforming traditional mode of production to modern agriculture. The paper traces the …
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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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Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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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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How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
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Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coarse grains), pulses (gram, tur), selected fruits and vegetables (banana, potato, onion), sugarcane...
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