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Common lands in India: Spatial distribution and overlay with socioeconomic and environmental indicators
Common pool resources provide important socioeconomic and ecological benefits for local communities and beyond, with around 2.5-3 billion people depending on commons for their livelihoods and other needs globally.
Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ (un)willingness to pay for low-milled rice: Implications for zinc biofortification
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health problem in Bangladesh.
This paper documents the different steps followed to construct Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Balochistan for the year 2019-20.
BACKGROUND| Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks.
Institutional and policy process for climate-smart agriculture: Evidence from Nagaland State, India
A critical global policy question is how the environmental management interventions could be repurposed to meet the sustainable development goals and their target for food security, climate protection, and environmental sustainability.
Valuing ecosystem services provided by land commons in India: Implications for research and policy
Scale and sustainability: The impact of a women’s self-help group program on household economic well-being in India
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.
Chinese and Indian economic relations and development assistance to Zimbabwe: Rationale, controversies and significance
Recent economic relations including foreign assistance scenario in Africa show expansion of China and India as emerging bilateral partners, competing with traditional countries in Europe and North America.
Irrigation systems management in Nepal: Women’s strategies in response to migration-induced challenges
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations (WUAs).
The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, associated public health measures, and people’s reactions were projected to have caused job losses among women, a decline in women’s empowerment and reduced women’s diet diversity.
Stories of change in nutrition: Lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe
How does nutrition improve? We need to understand better what drives both positive and negative change in different contexts, and what more can be done to reduce malnutrition.
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India
MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households.
India has committed to reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35% from the 2005 level by 2030 in alignment with objectives of the Paris Agreement.