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Mitigating Climate Change Through Agriculture
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011
Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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Hunger in India
Project, The Hunger Project - eSocialSciences - 2013
The first step toward change is awareness. Do take out some time to know what's happening in the country we live in. This video has been designed to spread awareness about food insecurity in India, and the issues related to it.
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Redifining Food Security in the Face of Foreign Land Investors: The Philippine Case
Shepherd, Ben - eSocialSciences - 2011
violence of involuntary hunger. [NTS-Asia Research Paper No.6]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu.sg/nts/HTML-Newsletter/Report/pdf/NTS-Asia_Ben_Shepherd.pdf]. …
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Subsidizing the National Food Authority: Is It a Good Policy?
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
National Food Authority's (NFA) twin mandate of price stabilization and food security has cost the government billions of pesos in losses over the past few decades. As such, there is a need to reexamine the NFA to determine whether the benefits gained from its continued operation justifies the...
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The National Food Security Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Department of Food and Public … - 2011
quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or …
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Review of Input and Output Policies for Cereals Production in Pakistan
Salam, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. [IFPRI Discussion Paper 01223]....
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Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis
McKelvey, Christopher; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains unclear. Targeting of subsidies and insufficient price variation have … longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an analysis of the dramatic variation in prices and incomes that …
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …
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Bihar’s Miraculous Economic Performance: Myth or Reality?
Ghatak, Shambhu - eSocialSciences - 2010
factor cost (at constant 1999-2000 prices) data as provided by the Central Statistical Organization so as to come to its …
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Uses and Misuses of Statistics
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2012
Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].
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