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Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture
Hans, V. Basil - 2015
continuous fall in productivity and production. Climate change and vulnerability have physical, financial and ethical …
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Class Inequality and Climate Change Resilience : Exploring the Nexus in Liberalised India
Michael, Kavya; Sreeraj, A. P. - 2017
In this paper, we develop an index for climate change resilience in post reform India across different classes using a set of variables that connotes the co-evolutionary relations of the social, economic and ecological realms. Contrary to the dominant paradigms of climate change resilience we...
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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
Over the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development. However, the changes have differed markedly in nature and speed across countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the...
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Evolution of Forest Policies in India and the Emergence of Village Forest Councils as Rural Institutions : A Case Study on Kerala in India
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion on the working of village forest institutions (VFI) in developing countries with a view to understanding their role as rural institutions. In a tropical country like India, the success of any community based forest management effort...
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Food Security and Sustainability in India
Hans, V. Basil - 2011
The problem of food security is de facto and global. While we look at the financial crisis we cannot ignore the almost forgotten food crisis. India has revolutionised its agriculture but there is the phenomenon of food mountains and lakes alongside poverty, malnutrition and ill-health. For an...
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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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CDM Potential of Dairy Sector in India
Michaelowa, Axel; Sirohi, Smita - 2004
in the dairy sector in India, estimates the cost of various methane mitigation strategies in the sector and highlights …
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CDM Potential of Dairy Sector in India
Sirohi, Smita; Michaelowa, Axel - 2014
in the dairy sector in India, estimates the cost of various methane mitigation strategies in the sector and highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071264
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Impact of climate variation on agricultural productivity and food security in rural India
Kumar, Ajay; Sharma, Pritee - 2013
This research paper analyzes the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in quantity terms, value of production in monetary terms and food security in India. The study undertook state wise analysis based on secondary data for the duration of 1980 to 2009. Climate variation affects...
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Climate Change and Indian Agricultural Sector : Adaptation, Mitigation and Impact Assessment
Shah, Deepak - 2018
pattern of food consumption, promotion of eco-friendly use adaptation, adaptation to ecosystem based approaches of risk … management, shift in cropping pattern, adaptation to integrated farming system and integrated agro forestry systems, etc. There … are areas where adaptation programme have already been developed and these include crop improvement, risk financing …
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