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| Khandker, Varsha; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| Rice is India’s number one foodgrain and is crucial to its food security. Raising its production with increasing demand and escalating commodity prices is a major challenge. The promising hybrid rice technology, despite its success in neighboring China and Bangladesh, has faced serious difficulties in India. The study examines the complexities in the introduction and adoption behavior of hybrid rice. It develops a conceptual framework to understand the adoption which includes technological, economic, behavioral, market and policy factors. The research uses secondary data, interviews, and primary farmer sample surveys to explore and test the conceptual model. Preliminary specific findings on the processes, determinants and challenges in the adoption of... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124325 |
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| Bhamoriya, Vaibhav P.; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating poverty, and meeting drinking water as well as other human and industrial needs. It is now widely recognized that apart from engineering feats, good institutional arrangements are crucial for the sound management of the resource. In light of this, the development of water institutions has been taken up in India, but remains a major weakness. Existing water institutions are found to be lacking on various counts, and one of the critical deficiencies identified is the lack of adaptiveness to the significantly varying resource status, the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58885 |
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| Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The idea of food security has been circulating for a long time and the right to adequate food and to be free from hunger has been repeatedly affirmed and reaffirmed in a number of documents adopted by the United Nations. Despite the enormous efforts in the past decades by various international organisations, government and non-government organisations, unfortunately, today there are still more than 800 million people throughout the world, most of them in developing countries, who do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs. Among the 800 million, more than 30 percent are from India and China. It is these poor people who have great difficulty in obtaining an adequate food for basic human requirements and who need to be helped by the public... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123746 |
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| Gandhi, Vasant P.; Crase, Lin. |
| The study examines the nature and performance of watershed development institutions in India. Improving productivity and incomes in rainfed areas, which have much poverty, is a major challenge in India, and a huge initiative through which this is pursued is Watershed Development (WSD) programs which are massively funded by the Government of India, state governments and external donors. In watershed development, combining scientific approaches with community participation and knowledge is a major problem and requires effective institutions, which is a major weakness. The study examines the design and performance of watershed development institutions using new institutional economics, and management theory of governance. It analyzes data collected in a... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124307 |
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| Jain, Dinesh; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The effective management of natural resources is increasingly critical for growth and development in India. The research examines the nature and impact of the interaction between formal and informal institutional structures in the rural areas in the context of the implementation of the major national initiative of watershed development programmes in India. It uses the concepts of new institutional economics and management theories of governance. It develops a conceptual framework which can be used to understand and explain the need and dynamics of institutional interaction and its relationship to institutional performance. The relevance of the framework is examined through case studies and a primary survey on the determinants of institutional performance... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124319 |
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| Gandhi, Vasant P.; Kumar, Gauri; Marsh, Robin. |
| This article examines the priority given to agroindustries in India in the context of their role in rural and small farmer development. The features and constraints of agroindustry are examined to assess their real and potential contribution and challenges faced. Institutional and organizational models that have been tried or proposed in India are evaluated from the point of view of performance and contribution to rural and small farmer development. The article then draws policy and managerial implications |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34223 |
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| Sarma, J.S.; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The role of agriculture in India’s economic development continues to be of great importance, as a producer of food, as an employer of about two-thirds of the labor force, and as a source of purchasing power for much of the nonagricultural consumer goods and services in the economy. Thus, rapid growth in agricultural is essential for sustainable growth and development of the economy. Within agriculture, foodgrain production is by far the major activity, covering about 80 percent of the cropped area in India and providing the main staple source of food. Foodgrains provide almost all the calories and proteins consumed by the poor and provide the rural poor with the bulk of their employment and income. Further, with a population of some 800 million people,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Grain trade; India; Wheat trade; Food supply; Nutrition; Poor; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42163 |
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| Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The paper examines the rural land and labour markets in the context of economic liberalization in India. Land and labour are the two fundamental resources available to the rural people for income generation. The access to land and to employment for labour become basic determinants of well-being for the rural households. Reforms are often seen as hostile to rural areas and the poor, although they should be beneficial not only for overall growth, but also rural growth and poverty alleviation. The study based on primary household data examines the land and labour markets in the reform period and the underlying linkages of these to different characteristics of the household. The study finds that over the reform period in India the land markets are leading to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Reform; Land; Labour; Development; Poverty; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25749 |
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| Gandhi, Vasant P.; Crase, Lin; Herath, Gamini. |
| There has been substantial focus on water resource development in India, but with emphasis mainly on the technical side. Development of institutions to manage the interactions and arrangements necessary has received little attention. The study uses the new institutional economics framework and governance theories to probe local institutions in water resource management. 29 institutions and 450 households are covered and the data analysed through univariate Anova and multivariate Tobit regressions. The results show the importance of technical, organizational and political governance provided by the institutions. Achievement of efficiency, equity, environment and finance objectives depends substantially on lowering transaction costs through advancing means... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10372 |
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| Gandhi, Vasant P.; Marsh, Robin. |
| The paper examines the impact of local institutions on development and poverty in the rural areas of India. Recent research on the role of institutions on the path of economic development indicates the importance of both "macro" and "micro" institutions including local institutions. The study finds a large number of both formal and informal local institutions in the surveyed villages, and a substantial degree of interaction of the households with the institutions. These include both formal institutions such as service cooperatives and dairy cooperatives, as well as informal institutions such as savings groups, community associations and labour groups. The study finds that apart from the standard factors included such as land, capital and labour, the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Institutions; Development; Poverty reduction; International Development. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25928 |
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