Fluctuations in income in three villages of India's Semi-arid Tropics
Title | Fluctuations in income in three villages of India's Semi-arid Tropics PDF eBook |
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Release | 1983 |
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Fluctuations in Income in Three Villages of India's Semi-Arid Tropics
Title | Fluctuations in Income in Three Villages of India's Semi-Arid Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 66 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Farm income |
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How Third World Rural Households Adapt to Dietary Energy Stress
Title | How Third World Rural Households Adapt to Dietary Energy Stress PDF eBook |
Author | P. R. Payne |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780896295018 |
Time and stress; Sources and types of stress; Biological responses to the stress environment; Behavioral responses to the stress environment.
Village and Household Economies in India's Semi-arid Tropics
Title | Village and Household Economies in India's Semi-arid Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | T. S. Walker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The State of Food and Agriculture 1998
Title | The State of Food and Agriculture 1998 PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9789251042007 |
This annual report provides basic information on the global agricultural situation. A review of developments in food security opens this year's report, with new estimates on the proportion & number of undernourished people in the developing world. Also included is an analysis of the Asian financial crisis & its likely effects on agricultural production, trade, & food security. Special features include: an examination of the potential of rice fish farming; a chapter on rural non-farm income & employment; & a diskette housing time series data for nearly 150 countries, country groups, & regions in English, French, & Spanish. Recommended in: ALA's Guide to Reference Books.
Crop Insurance in Karnataka
Title | Crop Insurance in Karnataka PDF eBook |
Author | Vijay Kalavakonda |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Crop insurance |
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The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the second driest state in the country. Their analysis highlights weaknesses in product design, implementation challenges, and operational problems. The authors' finding is that the crop insurance scheme in its current form does not achieve its objectives, either explicit (risk management) or implicit (safety net and containment of both the central and state governments' contingent liability). The crop insurance scheme performs poorly both in terms of coverage (number of hectares insured and number of farmers purchasing insurance) and financial performance. The authors provide a framework for designing a crop insurance scheme based on the premise that insurance is a cost effective risk management techniques. They also provide some new ideas and thinking toward both improving the existing crop insurance scheme and exploring alternatives to the current product, based on an area-yield approach.
Bargaining Power, Wages and Employment
Title | Bargaining Power, Wages and Employment PDF eBook |
Author | Gaurav Datt |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Datt (Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC) offers a methodological study analyzing the operation of agricultural labor markets in ten rural areas of India, arguing that the asymmetrical bargaining power of employers over agricultural laborers exerts a significant qualitative influence on distributional outcomes in the village economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR