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.
BACKGROUND| Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks.
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.
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
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.
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.
More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?
India heavily depends on imports to meet its edible oil demand. In 2020-21, it imported 54% of the total edible oil demand, spending Rs. 1.17 lakh crores. Notably, most of the imports are from a few countries.
Why is agricultural marketing so crucial for the farmer? Agriculture and allied sectors accounted for only 17.7 per cent of the GDP of India in 2020.
Home to one-quarter of humanity—one-fifth of whom are youth—South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition (1–3).