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Reforming Indian Agriculture
SAGE India 2008; US$ 49.95This compilation includes original essays that examine past and current status. of the agricultural sector in India and delineate the challenges it faces in the. era of economic reforms. It highlights the issues that are beginning to raise. serious policy discussions in India in view of continuing agrarian crisis and. the Eleventh Five Year Plan (20072012).... more...
The African Food Crisis
CABI 2005; US$ 120.00This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers and with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. more...
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in a Sustainable Rice-Wheat Cropping System
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99With depleted soils and reduced ground water levels from intensive agriculture, India's rice and wheat crops are in crisis. This title analyzes the rice-wheat cropping crisis and its remedies together with the importance of the Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) system in modern Indian agriculture. more...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 29.99Distortions to Agricultural incentives in Asia is the third volume in a series of books that brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past halfcentury of policyimposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 80 countries. Drawing on new consistent set of estimates spanning 90 percent of the world's... more...
An Impact Evaluation of India's Second and Third Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Projects
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 19.99The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank has undertaken impact evaluations of the Banks support to irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India (under AP Irrigation II and III), and of the U.K. Department for International Development supported Rural Livelihoods Project (RLP).This is one of a series of IEG impact evaluations (see appendix... more...
Taming the Anarchy
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 79.95In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast... more...
Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 115.00Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This... more...
Colonializing Agriculture
SAGE India 2005; US$ 35.95This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and... more...
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