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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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, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local … agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …
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Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ agro-economic approaches and … Indian agriculture. Using panel data over a twenty year period and on 271 districts, we estimate the impact of climate change …
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Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this … distribution of productivity losses across global regions would bring significant structural adjustments in world wide agriculture …
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impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. The stakes for world agriculture, with special attention to …
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The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the legal background relating to exchange control and liberalization and details of liberalization...
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The ’social impacts’ of dams may be defined as 'impacts on the lives of individual people or groups or categories of people, or forms of social organisation'. Social impacts are distinct from environmental or economic impacts, though all of these are closely linked. This review...
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The principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation are followed. It believes that one of the starting points … for adaptation to climate change should be the present. The focus should not just be on scenarios of the future; combined … opportunities for successful adaptation. [WP no. 108]. …
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This paper on the CBDR deals with these issues of equity, development and climate change in a holistic way to address the problem from the global south perspective keeping the South Asian requirements in particular. [Working paper No. 10]
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Since 2002, the Indian state of Odisha has been undertaking a grassroots awareness campaign on “dos and don’ts†during heat wave conditions through the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. The selection criteria for DRM districts were earthquake, flood, and cyclone incidence,...
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