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Strategic Positioning and the Reproduction of Inequality: The case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
(2014-11)
This paper is concerned with socio-economic inequalities and their (re-)production, empirically inquired for the particular case of the upper Gori valley in the Kumaon Himalaya of India. The strand of so-called reproduction ...
CSR public policies in India´s democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct
(2017-03)
The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests
a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public
authorities. But depending on policy objectives ...
Food System in India: Challenges, Performance and Promise: Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit March 30, 2021
(2021-03-30)
India’s transformation of its food system from a highly deficit one in mid 1960s to self-reliant and marginally surplus now is a story of success and holds lessons for many small holder economies of Africa and south and ...
COVID-19: Emergence, spread and its impact on the Indian economy and migrant workers
(2021-04)
This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India ...
An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean?: How production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India
(2018-01)
On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees ...
Can social safety nets protect public health?: The effect of India’s workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
(2017-10)
Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare ...
Impact of different irrigation systems on water quality in peri-urban areas of Gujarat, India
(2016-07)
The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors – especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage – poses a ......
Modelling Indian wheat and rice sector policies
(2015-03)
This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement, storage, distribution and trade. Using nationally aggregated time series data, these policies are econometrically ...
Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity
(2014-02)
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for onfarm varietal diversity, especially when only a few ...