Evidence is found of two distinct patterns of response to the onset of the recent drought in rural Ethiopia …. Agricultural Households with pre-shock cattle holdings of three or more animals effectively used these assets as a buffer against …

This paper is an attempt to analyse the public policy for drought management in India in general and Bundelkhand region … hunger. This study argues that the Ministry of Agriculture’s present policy for drought, based upon the principle of ‘one …-size fits all,’ is narrow in nature. In measuring drought only two factors are taken into account – first, the precipitation …