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Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa:
Hazell, P. B. R.; Oram, Peter A.; Chaherli, Nabil - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a majority of the 290 million ruminant livestock,...
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Sustainable development of rainfed agriculture in India:
Kerr, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996
India's agricultural growth has been sufficient to move the country from severe food crises of the 1960s to aggregate … rainfed agricultural development in India. It examines the historical record of agricultural productivity growth in different … the Indo-Gangetic plains and peninsular India from 1956 to 1990. …
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The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
Menon, Ajit; LELE, SHARACHCHANDRA; Patil, Ishwar; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the …
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Secondary Education in India: Determinants of Development and Performance
P, Geetha Rani - eSocialSciences - 2007
A review of development of school education in India reflects an expansionary phase of number of institutions and …
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
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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].
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Can genetic engineering for the poor pay off? An ex-ante evaluation of Golden Rice in India
Stein, Alexander J.; Sachdev, H.P.S.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen … - 2006
set of household food consumption in India. Using a refined disability-adjusted life year (DALY) framework and detailed … health data, this study shows for India that under optimistic assumptions this country's annual burden of VAD of 2.3 million …
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Potential Impacts of Iron Biofortification in India
Stein, Alexander J.; Qaim, Matin; Meenakshi, J.V.; … - Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen … - 2006
wheat in India indicates sizeable potential health benefits. The cost-effectiveness of iron biofortification compares …
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …
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Food security and government interventions: A study of Indian grain markets
Mohanty, Samarendu; Wesley, E.; Peterson, F. - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 14 (2005) 3, pp. 337-352
This study examines the future of Indian food security in light of possible liberalization of its agriculture sector. Demand for major food grains such as wheat and rice is projected after taking into account possible dietary changes due to income growth, urbanization and other demographic...
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