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Overcoming Poverty in Rural India: Focus on Rainfed Semi-Arid Tropics

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Title Overcoming Poverty in Rural India: Focus on Rainfed Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Creator Rao, K P C
Bantilan, M C S
Singh, K
Subrahmanyam, S
Deshingkar, P
Rao, P P
Shiferaw, B
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This study is a comprehensive analysis of the nature, the dynamics and the determinants of poverty in the
semi-arid tropics (SAT). It uses the sustainable livelihood framework to identify the underlying determinants
of poverty and the pathways in moving out of poverty. Quantitative analysis based on the most recent National
Sample Surveys (NSS) of India (1999-2000 round) generated classifications of relevant typologies including
agroecological zones, occupational groups, irrigation access and social groups. It shows that poverty in India is
concentrated most in the SAT and humid areas. It identifies caste and occupational groups facing highest
incidence of poverty. The typologies systematized the establishment of linkages between rural poverty and the
semi-arid tropics.
The study presents a synthesis of evidence and lessons learnt from the village level studies (VLS) by the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and other household level case
studies - income and expenditure levels, incidence of poverty and under-nutrition and coping strategies when
faced with droughts and other income shocks. The empirical analysis uses both the quantitative and the
qualitative data to document the existing and emerging evidences on the spatial and the social dimensions of
poverty. The poverty diagnostics and strategic assessment of the issues confronting SAT generated a
comprehensive perspective from both the micro and the macro levels, thus deepening our understanding of
the multi-dimensional nature of SAT poverty.
The study reviews the existing poverty alleviation programs (their merits and demerits and successes and
failures) and concludes with a set of recommendations on strategies to increase the contribution of SAT
agriculture to poverty reduction.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2005
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1198/1/RA_00415.pdf
Rao, K P C and Bantilan, M C S and Singh, K and Subrahmanyam, S and Deshingkar, P and Rao, P P and Shiferaw, B (2005) Overcoming Poverty in Rural India: Focus on Rainfed Semi-Arid Tropics. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.