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Gain new insight on alleviating food insecurity in one of the
poorest areas of the world! This book analyzes various facets of
economic reforms in South Asia and their implications for attaining
food security. It illuminates relevant issues regarding the
constraints and challenges in achieving food security, focusing on
South Asian countries where a large percentage of the world's poor
reside. This timely resource examines possible future courses of
action involving trade and new technological advances to improve
agriculture-led development in the region. Economic Reforms and
Food Security: The Impact of Trade and Technology in South Asia
focuses its attention on the economic reforms and experiences of
six nations: Bangladesh Bhutan India Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka
Economic Reforms and Food Security: The Impact of Trade and
Technology in South Asia includes the most relevant presentations
made at the South Asia Regional Conference held in New Delhi in
April of 2002. The book features experts who present lively,
important debate on such significant issues as: current economic
reformshave they really enhanced food security? trade
liberalizationcan the WTO and new trade opportunities handle food
security concerns? new technological optionshow they contribute to
agricultural production and food security the challenges of
waterpricing, subsidies, and other issues in irrigation
agricultural diversification and market reforms-how they increase
food availability interventions in food and nutrition
securityshort-term solutions to reduce food insecurity and more!
Economic Reforms and Food Security: The Impact of Trade and
Technology in South Asia contains numerous tables and figures to
demonstrate the current food situation in this area of the world
and offers projections of where improvements can be made. Students
and faculty of economics or South Asia will find this book
extremely useful; it will also benefit development researchers,
policymakers, and governmental officials who are searching for
answers to poverty and starvation in developing countries. This
text shows you how a concerted effort by governments, agencies,
organizations, industries, and individualsbacked by adequate
resources and changes in policiescan accelerate progress toward
achieving sustainable food security for all.
This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and
Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource
challenges. Through its eleven chapters, the book captures the role
of groundbreaking innovations in achieving unprecedented
agricultural growth and stabilizing these nations. It provides a
future outlook of the new challenges that will confront these
countries in 2030 and beyond, related to tackling food and
nutrition security, sustainable agricultural growth and adhering to
improved food safety standards. This book provides useful insights
for exploring technological innovations and policies that can
address these future challenges and develop profitable and
sustainable agriculture. This volume also highlights valuable
lessons that India, China and Israel provide for the rest of the
developing world where population is growing fast; natural
resources are limited; and it is a challenge to produce enough
food, feed and fibre for their populations. Tracing the historical
past, this book is an impressive resource for academicians,
policymakers, practitioners, agribusiness players, entrepreneurs in
understanding the role of innovations in addressing future
challenges.
This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for
revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth
process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in
sustained growth of farmers' incomes. The book, instead of looking
for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the
possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the
best practices and experiences within Indian states, to answer
questions such as -- how the agricultural growth process can be
speeded up and made more inclusive, and financially viable; are
there any best practices that can be studied and replicated to
bring about faster growth in agriculture; does the prior hypothesis
that rapid agricultural growth can alleviate poverty faster, reduce
malnutrition, and augment farmers' incomes stand? To answer these
questions, the book follows four broad threads -- i) Linkage
between agricultural performance, poverty and malnutrition; ii)
Analysing the historical growth performance of agricultural sector
in selected Indian states; iii) Will higher agricultural GDP
necessarily result in higher incomes for farmers; iv) Analysing the
current agricultural policy environment to evaluate its efficiency
and efficacy, and consolidate all analysis to create a roadmap.
These are discussed in 12 chapters, which provide a building block
for the concluding chapter that presents a roadmap for revitalising
Indian agriculture while ensuring growth in farmers' incomes.
This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and
Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource
challenges. Through its eleven chapters, the book captures the role
of groundbreaking innovations in achieving unprecedented
agricultural growth and stabilizing these nations. It provides a
future outlook of the new challenges that will confront these
countries in 2030 and beyond, related to tackling food and
nutrition security, sustainable agricultural growth and adhering to
improved food safety standards. This book provides useful insights
for exploring technological innovations and policies that can
address these future challenges and develop profitable and
sustainable agriculture. This volume also highlights valuable
lessons that India, China and Israel provide for the rest of the
developing world where population is growing fast; natural
resources are limited; and it is a challenge to produce enough
food, feed and fibre for their populations. Tracing the historical
past, this book is an impressive resource for academicians,
policymakers, practitioners, agribusiness players, entrepreneurs in
understanding the role of innovations in addressing future
challenges.
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual
framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness,
sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the
efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities
in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an
integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing
and marketing. Farmer's welfare being central to any agricultural
policy makes it very pertinent to study how a value chain works and
can be strengthened further to realize this policy goal. This book
adds value to the existing research by studying the value chains
end-to-end across a wide spectrum of agricultural commodities with
the holistic lens of CISS-F. It is not enough that a value chain is
competitive but not inclusive or it is competitive and inclusive
but not sustainable. The issue of scalability is very critical to
achieve macro gains in terms of greater farmer outreach and
sectoral growth. The research undertaken here brings out some very
useful insights for policymaking in terms of what needs to be done
better to steer the agricultural value chains towards being more
competitive, inclusive, sustainable and scalable. The value chain
specific research findings help draw very nuanced policy
recommendations as well as present a big picture of the future
direction of policy making in agriculture.
Pro-poor opportunities are rapidly unfolding in South Asia, spurred
by new lifestyles and tastes, stimulated by increasing incomes,
spreading urbanisation, and expanding globalisation. Dietary
patterns are changing of both the poor and the rich, as well as
rural and urban consumers, from staple foodgrains to
high-value-commodities such as fruits, vegetables, milk, meat,
eggs, and fish. The real challenge is how to grab these
opportunities to alleviate poverty and improve quality of life,
particularly for smallholders. This book, comprising contributions
by experts from various countries, provides a range of information,
analysis, and the beginnings of pathways to accelerate agricultural
diversification and facilitate inclusiveness of small holders
through correcting incentives, evolving institutions, and
developing infrastructure.
Economic freedom matters. It improves outcomes by empowering
citizens with the freedom to choose. This report, one of a series
starting in 2005, once again seeks to measure economic freedom in
different Indian states, and to show how this improves economic
outcomes. Economic freedom is a concept first used by the Fraser
Institute to measure the extent to which governments constrain
efficient decision making and distort resource allocation. It has
been used in cross-country literature to show that countries with
higher levels of freedom have better development indicators.
However, attempts to capture economic freedom at the sub-national
level of state governments are rare, although very pertinent in a
federal country like India. Many areas of economic decision making
in India fall under the jurisdiction of state governments, and are
listed in the Seventh Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Our
pioneering work modifies the Fraser Institute's methodology of
measuring economic freedom across countries, creating a new way of
measuring economic freedom across Indian states. This enables us to
see which states are getting freer or less free, and to demonstrate
how economic freedom at the state level impacts economic
development.
This volume of comparative essays analyses key lessons from the
reform experiences-agricultural and rural-of India and China and
provide policy insights for the continuing reform processes in
these two countries as well as for other developing and transition
economies. The volume provides factual information on initial
conditions in agriculture, changes that have occurred over time,
and policies in the two countries. It demonstrates how
agriculture-led reform and development provides necessary
conditions for manufacturing and service sectors to grow and reform
along with a reduction in poverty at the same rate of growth. The
comparative analyses extends across the areas of: land reforms;
human and social development; public investment; agricultural R
irrigation and the water sector; domestic agricultural marketing;
WTO and agricultural trade liberalization; agricultural and rural
diversification; rural non-farm sector; and anti-poverty programs
and safety nets.
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