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The African Food Crisisby G. Djurfeldt; H. Holmen; M. Jirstrom; R. Larsson
CAB International 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...
Reforming Indian Agricultureby Sankar Kumar Bhaumik
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). Apart from providing macro level. analyses, the collection also features studies which are based on micro (field). data that reflect the realities of the Indian agrarian economy. In addition, Reforming Indian Agriculture: Towards Employment Generation. and Poverty Reduction focuses on the issues of employment, poverty, food. and nutrition, and reviews other aspects of development policy... more...
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in a Sustainable Rice-Wheat Cropping Systemby Anil Mahajan; R.D. Gupta
Springer 2009; US$ 179.00With 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...
Colonializing Agricultureby Mridula Mukherjee
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 Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal landlords, rack-rented tenants, and struggling small-holders, who were forced to enlist in the army or migrate to enable their families to pay government taxes and to repay... more...
An Impact Evaluation of India's Second and Third Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Projectsby Howard White
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 H). IEGs program of impact evaluation is in part carried out under a Department for International DevelopmentIEG partnership agreement; hence the focus on RLP. However, survey villages are also covered by the Bank supported DPIP project, so that the findings are also relevant to this project. more...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asiaby Kym Anderson
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 agricultural markets. The first two titles in the series focus on Europe's transitional economies and Latin America. Future titles will focus on Africa and the distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective. more...
Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladeshby Winston Yu; Mozaharul Alam; Ahmadul Hassan; Abu Saleh Khan; Alex Ruane; Cynthia Rosenzweig; David Major; James Thurlow
Earthscan 2010; US$ 110.00Managing 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 book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive integrated framework.First, the most recent science available is used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical data is used to derive more realistic and accurate... more...
Taming the Anarchyby Tushaar Shah
Earthscan 2008; US$ 75.00In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is todays India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the worlds 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 atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefit that the irrigation economy has created and the ill-fare it threatens through depleted aquifers and pollution. Tushaar Shah brings exceptional... more...
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