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Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India
eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2011
The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002307
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Impact of Organic Farming on Economics of Sugarcane Cultivation in Maharashtra
G, Kshirsagar K - eSocialSciences - 2008
Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts covering 142 farmers, 72 growing Organic Sugarcane … (OS) and 70 growing Inorganic Sugarcane (IS) in Maharashtra. [WP 15]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528391
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Marketing of Bt Cotton in India: Aggressive, Unscrupulous and False….
eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and … unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487769
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Ethical Issues in Community Based Monitoring of Health Programmes: Reflections from India
Khanna, Renu - eSocialSciences - 2013
a series of conversations between a few community monitoring practitioners in India -- are targeted at a wider community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133143
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Farmers’ Suicides in India: Magnitudes, Trends, and Spatial Patterns, 1997-2012
Nagaraj, K.; Sainath, P.; Rukmani, R.; Gopinath, R. - In: Journal 4 (2014) 2, pp. 53-83
The last decade has seen a high degree of agrarian distress in India, of which the large number of suicides by farmers …, farmers’ suicides in India from 1997 to 2012, and of regional patterns in these suicides. We argue that while the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210395
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Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village
Swaminathan, Madhura; Rawal, Vikas - In: Journal 1 (2011) 1, pp. 101-124
Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. While the pros and cons of GM cotton are extensively debated, there are only a few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875649
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Multiple-use water service implementation in Nepal and India: experience and lessons for scale-up. [Report of the CGIAR Challenge Program-Multiple-Use Water Systems (CP-MUS) Projec...
Mikhael, M.; Yoder, R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907349
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Death of a Rationalist Crusader
Sengupta, Amit - eSocialSciences - 2013
The murder of Narendra Dabholkar is emblematic of the deep fear of knowledge and its democratization.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945297
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Anti-Superstition Legislation
MANS, Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti - eSocialSciences - 2013
citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership of the new Chief Minister Hon. Sushilkumar Shinde has passed in … achieve the desired results. This will be the first law of its kind in India and may be in the world. [MANS]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945500
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Internal Migration for Education and Employment among Youth in India
S, Chandrasekhar; Sharma, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2014
such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka are gainers whereas traditionally backward states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh … Karnataka and Maharashtra. [IGIDR WP-2014-004]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945543