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Green revolution: Indian agricultural experience – a paradigm for Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to … India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor …. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the “Green Revolution” in the mid 1960s. The …
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SOCIAL SECURITY FOR UNORGANISED WORKERS IN INDIA
Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
years in India. It is argued that India had a long tradition of informal social security and social assistance system … calls for a Comprehensive, Universal and Integrated Social Security System for the unorganised workers in India. …
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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups
Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
provides number of critical insights on conundrums in public distribution system in India by maximum Indian states and social …
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Pattern diversities in cropping systems in tribal regions: a case study of Jhabua tribal district in Madhya Pradesh, India
Singh, Vivek Kumar; Singh, RD - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Agricultural development has been analysed by studying the cropping pattern and cropping diversification and crop specialization in any agro-ecosystem in regional and temporal framework. Tribal regions are experiencing agricultural intensification through diversification of cropping systems and...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000...
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The impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being: evidence from Bangladesh
Sonia, Akter; Syed Abul, Basher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...
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Assessing Farmer’s Willingness to Participate in the On-farm Conservation of Minor Millet using Direct Compensation Payment
Tenkasi Raghu, Prabhakaran; Das, Sukanya; S, Bala Ravi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The farmers, predominantly the small and tribal,particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity immensely contribute to the on-farm conservation and enrichment of this diversity, often at personal cost. The past and present agricultural progress could not have happened without these genetic...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty: The Definition of Poverty
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This module illustrates how poverty can be defined in the context of policy impact analysis. After reporting and discussing the definition of poverty as “the lack of, or the inability to achieve, a socially acceptable standard of living”, it discusses the mono-dimensional and...
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الأمن الغذائى العربى
Elasrag, Hussein - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
As a result of climatic conditions such as dry climate, limited arable land and scarce water resources,the Arab region is import dependent for most food commodities. There is a continuously rising discrepancy between food production and food consumption.This makes the region more and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260521
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تفعيل دور التصنيع الزراعي في تحقيق الأمن الغذائي العربي
Elasrag, Hussein - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
As a result of climatic conditions such as dry climate, limited arable land and scarce water resources,the Arab region is import dependent for most food commodities. There is a continuously rising discrepancy between food production and food consumption. This makes the region more and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261017