India’s agricultural systems are increasingly affected by the adverse effects of climate change.
Globally, the commons provide important ecosystem functions and services and contribute towards sustainable development and human population.
Institutional structures can fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of water resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. The properties of adaptive governance have been widely examined in the literature.
India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Ensuring privacy of respondents in phone surveys is especially challenging compared to face-to-face interviews.
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approa
This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest.
Common pool land and water resources in India play vital, but often overlooked, roles in livelihoods and ecosystem services.
Commons governance is complex and polycentric, involving a range of actors, working at different scales with different concepts of ‘development’, and different types of power.
India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n=772).
A recent IFPRI blog pointed to the perils of COVID-19 ravaging rural areas in second and third waves.
I am honored to write the preface for the Southasiadisaster.net issue on “Agriculture, Gender and COVID-19: Impact and Recovery”.
Climate change will have an impact on natural resources, water being one of them, affecting the availability of water including increasing the intensity of floods and droughts.
Low and variable yields of wheat in the rice--wheat cropping systems of lower Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia, covering Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh (EUP) in India and the Terai region of Nepal, are a matter of significant concern for
Groundnut is one of the significant sources of oil, food, and fodder in India. It is grown in marginal arid and semi-arid agro-ecosystems with wide yield fluctuations due to spatial variability of rainfall and soil.
As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management.