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Technology Adoption and Energy Efficiency in Irrigation: First Results from a Coordination Game in Andhra Pradesh, India
Müller, Malte; Rommel, Jens - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013
Farmers’ technology adoption in electric irrigation has recently been analyzed as a coordination problem. To study how the Pareto-inferior equilibrium, farmers are trapped in, can be overcome we have developed a framed field experiment. Leadership and group size are varied in a full factorial...
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A Report on Socioeconomic Attributes and Gender Inequality in Kondh-Dominated Villages: A Comparative Analysis of Tribals and Non-Tribals in the Phulbani District, Orissa, India
Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C.; Ghose, Ananda - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2002
Reports on results of a survey, completed in 2000, of wives in three villages in the Phulbani district, Orissa, India. These villages are dominated by the Kondh scheduled tribe but some also contain members of the scheduled caste, called Dombs in Orissa. The article reports on the total...
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Poverty-food security nexus : evidence from a survey of urban slum dwellers in Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 308-325
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Mountain agriculture : opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia
Li, Xuan (ed.); El Solh, Mahmoud (ed.);  … - FAO - 2019
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The central position of agriculture within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Omilola, Babatunde; Robele, Sophia - 2017
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Environmental sustainability, sustainable livelihood and poverty reduction : the case for tribal agricultural technology
Patel, Ramya Ranjan - In: International journal of innovation and sustainable … 8 (2014) 4, pp. 334-345
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Workfare as an effective way to fight poverty : the case of India's NREGS
Ravi, Shamika; Engler, Monika - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 57-71
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Poverty and food security in India
Himanshu - 2013
Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …
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Fish farming : socio-economic innovations to empower the small farmer
Nolan, Kathleen A. - In: International journal of social entrepreneurship and … 1 (2011) 2, pp. 199-212
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Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
Pingali, Prabhu L.; Aiyar, Anaka; Abraham, C. Mathew; … - 2019
masterful job of [demonstrating] paradoxes of India's rapid economic growth concurrently with… persistent poverty, food …
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