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Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of
reducing hunger and poverty, promoting agricultural productivity
and enhancing environmental sustainability. Covering the
development of sustainable agriculture, food production and food
security, this paper explains the relationship between all levels
of investment and their interdependence to be successful. It also
describes how to drive increased investment, at what stage and
where, providing a useful overview of investment in agriculture for
policymakers and researchers.
Diatoms are unicellular photosynthetic algae which constitute the
most important and dominant fraction of marine phytoplankton. They
are primary producers forming the basic link in the marine pelagic
food chain. They also help mitigate the global warming effect
through sequestering the green house gases. The planktonic diatoms
of the N. Arabian Sea bordering Pakistan, which is characterized by
very high primary productivity due to monsoonal upwelling, has long
been neglected by marine biologists. The present study deals with
taxonomy and ecology of centric diatoms of the area. As many as 79
species belonging to 23 genera are described along with their
spatial and temporal distributions. Chaetoceros and Rhizosolenia
were the most diverse genera among all with 17 species belonging to
each. Several species were first records from the area and a
variety Planktoniella blanda var. bilobata even new to the
knowledge of science. A peak in species diversity was observed in
February during the NE-monsoon season. This study fills an
important lacuna in the knowledge of marine diatoms from the world
oceans and will appeal not only to marine biologists but also
environmentalists.
Documented and analyzed in this comprehensive account are the
cross-country evidences in India that establish a relationship
between capital and growth as well as between growth and poverty.
The accelerated growth of the service sector, the almost stagnant
growth of the industrial sector, and the decelerated growth of the
agricultural sector have all been registered as patterns of growth
in India during the last few decades. As a result, among other
things, the rural-urban development divide has broadened and
deepened, moving the agricultural sector to the top of the
development agenda. The book analyzes macro evidences on investment
behavior in Indian agriculture, shifting composition of public and
private sector investment in agriculture, and the relationship
among capital formation, agriculture growth, and poverty
alleviation. It also provides comprehensive micro (field) level
evidences on capital structure, growth, composition, capital
intensity, the impact of capital stock on productivity of labor and
land, and determinants of farm-level capital formation.
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