Download or read book Identifying the Food Insecure written by Kimberly Chung and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reports on two methods for identifying alternative indicators of chronic and acute food insecurity for use in targeting food aid. Alternative indicators are needed because many of the “benchmark†or “gold standard†indicators (such as household income or dietary intake) are too cumbersome to be of practical use in targeting food aid. The ideal alternative indicator should be statistically reliable yet straightforward to collect and analyze.

Download or read book Empowering Rural Labour in India written by Rokkam Radhakrishna and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty One Articles In The Volume Provide Indepth Insight Into The Process In The Rural Labour Markets, Examine The Role Of Market Forces State Intervention And Mobilization Of Trade Union, Political Parties And Ngos.

Download or read book Optimization of Small Reservoir Irrigation System for Semi arid Tropics written by Prem Niwas Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries small reservoirs, called tanks, have been a traditional method of storing water in the semi-arid tropics. Their use is presently being expanded but as yet no design or location guidelines have been developed. This study constructs an optimization procedure for both tank design and location in order to maximize net benefits. Two representative traditional tank systems near Hyderabad, India were monitored to collect input data for the model and gain insight into the significant design parameters. The results of studying the traditional tank systems showed that theis overall system water utilization efficiency was four to six times lower than the potential water utilization efficiency. This inefficiency was caused by over irrigating, growing water intensive crops (e.g. rice), high evaporation and seepage losses from the tank and non optimal tank placement. The optimization procedure for designing tanks utilized a modified monlinearr constrainted Fletcher-Powell algorithhm. The procedure finds the optimum storage capacity, optimum dimensions and optimum location for an elevated inlet type tank shaped as an inverted truncated cone though the model can be modified to suit any definable shape of a tank. The model also considers seepage and evaporation losses alongh with detailed construction costs which account for lead and lift in the excavation work. The optimum location of the tank in the catchment is found by placing the tank in a position to maximize runoff considering irrigable area (command area). Whether or not one tank or several smaller tanks should be constructed is determined by comparing the unconstrained optimum size with the constrained optimum size for the catchment and choosing the minimium of the two. The study concludes with a sensitivity analysis to determine the relationship between net benefits vs. seepage rates and net benefits vs. discount rates. Most of the input data concerning soils and crop responses were from studues conducted at the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.

Download or read book Credit Rationing and Farmers Irrigation Investments in South India written by John L. Pender and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fertilizer Use in Semi arid Tropical India written by Dayanatha Jha and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Lives Change written by Himanshu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a single village in a crucially important country to illuminate the drivers of these changes, why some people do better or worse than others, and what influences mobility and inequality. How Lives Change draws on seven decades of detailed data collection by a team of dedicated development economists to describe the evolution of Palanpur's economy, its society, and its politics. The emerging story of integration of the village economy with the outside world is placed against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming India and, in turn, helps to understand the transformation. It puts development economics into practice to assess its performance and potential in a unique and powerful way to show how the development of one village since India's independence can be set in the context of the entire country's story. How Lives Change sets out the role of, and scope for, public policy in shaping the lives of individuals. It describes how changes in Palanpur's economy since the late 1950s were initially driven by the advance of agriculture through land reforms, the expansion of irrigation and the introduction of "green revolution" technologies. Since the mid-1980s, newly emerging off-farm opportunities in nearby towns and outside agriculture became the key driver of growth and change, profoundly influencing poverty, income mobility, and inequality in Palanpur. Village institutions are shown to have evolved in subtle but clear ways over time, both shaping and being shaped by economic change. Individual entrepreneurship and initiative is found to play a critical role in driving and responding to the forces of change; and yet, against a backdrop of real economic growth and structural transformation, this book shows that human development outcomes have shown only weak progress and remain stubbornly resistant to change.

Download or read book Population Sanitation and Health written by Asraful Alam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides analyses of sanitation, health, population dynamics and demographic variables from different perspectives, including data science, statistics, modeling, economics and natural sciences, to inform sustainable decision making and policies related public health and hygiene and in mainly rural and impoverished areas. The structure is arranged into three broad sections: Part I, Population Dynamics, Environment and Society; Part II, Health, Livelihood and Policy Response; and Part III, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). The book makes recommendations for policymakers on designing and delivering social protection policies to deal with different aspects of water, health, sanitation, population, and hygiene, taking the needs of women and rural communities into special consideration. It also aims to educate students and early career researchers, to help them develop novel approaches for sustainability with environmentally sound practices.

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Download or read book Climate Change Challenges and Adaptations at Farm level written by Naveen P Singh and published by CABI. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasis the role of farm level adaptation as a key in developmental pathways that are challenged by climate risks in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. It throws light on key issues that arise in farm level impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change and discusses Q2 methodological approaches undertaken in study domains of Asia and Africa. The book systematically describes the perceptions, aspirations as elicited/voiced by the farmers and identifies determinants of adaptation decisions. Chapters identify constraints and opportunities that are translated into indicative intervention recommendations towards climate resilient farm households in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. Furthermore, it discusses with evidences that contributes to the development of livelihood strategy for poor farmers in Asia (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and China) and Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger, Kenya and Ghana).

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Download or read book Labor Market Behavior in Rural Villages of South India written by James G. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India written by John Phipps (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: