Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana
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Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana
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Raju, K V
Wani, S P Anantha, K H |
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Agriculture
Bhoochetana Rainfed Agriculture Karnataka |
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The vast majority of farmers in the developing world are smallholders. An estimated 85 per cent o f them farm less than 2 hectares (World Bank, 2008). Moreover, 75 per cent of poor people live in rural areas, of which 2.1 billion survive on less than $2 a day and 880 million on less than $1 a day. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods (World Bank, 2009). Thus, promoting integrated sustainable agriculture farming systems to meet food and nutrition needs is imperative for meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving poverty and hunger by 2015 (United Nations, 1995). This requires complementary knowledge from formal agricultural R8cD (research and development) and support from policies and other institutions. Therefore, in order to accelerate sustainable agricultural development, it is essential to link formal and informal knowledge and innovation. Innovations need to involve technologies, organisations, institutions or policies for significant improvement in performance... |
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Academic Foundation
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2017
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/9916/1/Vicissitudes%20of%20Agric.%20in%20the%20fast%20growing%20Indian%20Economy.pdf
Raju, K V and Wani, S P and Anantha, K H (2017) Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana. In: Vicissitudes of Agriculture in the Fast Growing Indian Economy: Challenges, Strategies and the Way Forward. Academic Foundation, New Delhi, pp. 313-341. ISBN 9789332703360 |
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