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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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Title Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana
 
Creator Raju, K V
Wani, S P
Anantha, K H
 
Subject Agriculture
Bhoochetana
Rainfed Agriculture
Karnataka
 
Description 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...
 
Publisher Academic Foundation
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier 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