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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
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An Evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar’s Economic Thought on Agriculture in the context of Globalization
Bagde, Dr. Rakshit - 2021
heart. Above all these attributes, he was the noble visionary aspiring for a peaceful and prosperous world without malice.Agriculture … collectivism was the only answer for problems of agriculture. This was in tune with the welfare State visualized then. Collective …
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Significance of Farmers’ Distress Index in Reducing Agrarian Crisis : An Approach to Study Vulnerability in the Context of Dryland Farmers in India
Reddy, A Amarender; Bhattacharya, Anindita; Reddy, Venku - 2023
depend on agriculture for their livelihood and well-being. This paper attempts to build a picture of the vulnerability of …
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A Study on Role of ‘Nisarg Sewa Trust’ - An NGO : For Sustainable Rural Livelihood and Rural Development
Trivedi, Jigna C.; Shaikh, Fahmida - 2013
NGOs play a complementary role to government in fulfilling the needs of bottom of the pyramid. They are instrumental in lowering the gap between haves and have nots. They act as caretakers of downtrodden strata of society. NGOs carry out varied activities in the field of human rights, health,...
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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012
the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a … environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of …. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification …
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Rural Labour Employment and Livelihoods in Tribal Villages of Eastern India
kumar, Abhay - 2020
This study examines the changing employment and livelihood patterns of rural labour households in tribal villages of eastern India. The study is based on the high frequency panel data collected under the ICAR-ICRISAT project on Village Dynamics Studies in eastern India from 2010 to 2014. The...
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National Rural Employment Gurantee Programme (NREGA) West Bengal, India : Study of Two Villages
Kirtania, Anushree; Perumula, Gopinath - 2015
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has potential to provide livelihood security in the short and long run. The scheme in the short run can provide wage employment to rural people who are mainly unskilled manual workers. It can also provide them the alternative to migrating to more...
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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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Rural Nonfarm Employment andIncomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2008
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows...
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Does telecommunications reinforce rural agricultural extension services : insights from tribal villages in Eastern India
Jena, Pradyot Ranjan; Timilsina, Raja Rajendra; Kalli, … - 2024
-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. Given the low levels of education and technical understanding among farmers in the study area …
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