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Government success, failure of the market: a case study of rural India

Basu, Santonu - In: International Review of Applied Economics 23 (2009) 4, pp. 485-501

Contrary to current thinking, in this paper we argue that a careful examination of government intervention suggests that governments did not fail in all their interventions. For example, in terms of achieving self-sufficiency in food requirements, Indian government intervention was highly...

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Potential Impacts of a Green Revolution in Africa – the Case of Ghana

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …

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Technology-Climate Interactions in the Green Revolution in India.

McKinsey, J.W.; Evenson, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

Net Revenue to agriculture. We find that climate affects technology development and diffusion, and that technology …

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Agricultural Productivity and Credit- Issues and Way Forward

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …

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Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region

Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2011

agriculture as a sector and agriculture as peopleâ€™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 …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …

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The determinants of agricultural growth in Bangladesh

Joarder, Mohammad Abdul Munim - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 3, pp. 313-335

This paper makes an attempt to contribute to the literature of agricultural productivity in Bangladesh since 1961. The econometric results suggest that rapid adoption of green revolution technology, electricity consumption, literacy and credit have had a positive effect on agricultural...

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Integrating a broader notion of food security and gender empowerment into the African Green Revolution

Negin, Joel; Remans, Roseline; Karuti, Susan; Fanzo, Jessica - In: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production … 1 (2009) 3, pp. 351-360

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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)

Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...

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Technologies for Meeting Future Global Demands for Food

Crosson, Pierre; Anderson, Jock - 2002

Food can be produced under a number of technological conditions. Some observers hold that modern crop production technologies, typified by those embodied in the Green Revolution, are so intensive in the use of external inputs that they damage the environment and so are not sustainable. Those...

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Potential impacts of a green revolution in Africa—the case of Ghana

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; … - In: Journal of International Development 23 (2011) 1, pp. 82-102

transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …

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