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Small Farmers in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productivity performance of small holders, linking small holders with markets including value chains,...

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Disowned Institutions in Hilaungad Watershed

Chopra, Ravi; Sen, Debashish; Bhardwaj, Sapna; Negi, Deepa - eSocialSciences - 2009

management and relationship to local livelihoods. This paper presents the results of the institutional assessment. The paper … provides insights into the constraining factors in the operation of the institutions and makes recommendations for changes in …

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Rural commons and livelihood strategies in dry regions of India

Jodha, Narpat - In: The European Journal of Development Research 20 (2008) 4, pp. 597-611

Rural common property resources (CPRs) in dry tropical areas of India form an important part of people's livelihood strategies, to adapt to harsh, stressful and high risk bio-physical conditions. However, despite their utility and contributions, CPRs have been neglected and declined in the...

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Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi

Zulu, Leo - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 1917-1943

livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods and a process … integrates adjacent forests into forest-reserve co-management. Strengthened institutions, improving community/government and …

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Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty

Jagger, Pamela; Luckert, Martin (Marty) K.; Duchelle, Amy E. - In: World Development 64 (2014) S1, pp. 43-43

We explore the relationship between tenure and forest income in 271 villages throughout the tropics. We find that state-owned forests generate more forest income than private and community-owned forests both per household and per hectare. We explore whether forest income varies according to the...

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Can Local Institutions Help Sustain Livelihoods in an Era of Fish Declines and Persistent Environmental Change? A Cambodian Case Study

Marschke, Melissa; Lykhim, Ouk; Kim, Nong - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 2490-2505

role of local institutions in working with villagers to adapt to such challenges. The analysis shows that: (1) fishers … observe species decline, irregular tides and a change in weather patterns; and (2) local institutions have been working to … local institutions are well placed to deal with certain types of environmental change projects, such as protecting small …

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Food import demand in Peru, 1980-2021

Gonzales, Jorge R.; Varona, Luis - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 28, pp. 3371-3384

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How institutions mediate the impact of cash cropping on food crop intensification : an application to cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa

Theriault, Veronique; Tschirley, David - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 298-310

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Food insecurity and conflict events in Africa

Murshed, Syed Mansoob; Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Hasan, Rashel - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 24 (2018) 2, pp. 1-10

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Governing food safety through meso-institutions : a cross-country analysis of the dairy sector

Ménard, Claude; Martino, Gaetano; Oliveira, Gustavo … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 44 (2022) 4, pp. 1722-1741

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