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Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa:

Hazell, P. B. R.; Oram, Peter A.; Chaherli, Nabil - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a majority of the 290 million ruminant livestock,...

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Sustainable development of rainfed agriculture in India:

Kerr, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996

India's agricultural growth has been sufficient to move the country from severe food crises of the 1960s to aggregate … rainfed agricultural development in India. It examines the historical record of agricultural productivity growth in different … the Indo-Gangetic plains and peninsular India from 1956 to 1990. …

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Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India

eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2011

The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].

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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City

Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011

The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...

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