Transcript of papers presented in a seminar of the Social scientist and Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust titled India independent: economics, politics, culture held at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi on 22-24 February 2007

In this paper we explore the implications of Nepal's new federal Constitution — passed in September 2015 — for governance of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is the backbone of the Nepali economy, providing a livelihood for approximately two-thirds of the population, contributing...

Ethiopian montane rainforests are economically valuable repositories of biodiversity, especially of wild Coffea Arabica populations, and they are vanishing at accelerating rates. Our research results confirm theory which explains biodiversity loss by diverging private and social net benefits...

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...