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Poverty Pathways and Desertification: Strategy to Break the Unholy Nexus

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Title Poverty Pathways and Desertification: Strategy to Break the Unholy Nexus
 
Creator Wani, S P
Shiferaw, B
Sreedevi, T K
Pathak, P
Singh, P
Sahrawat, K L
Mula, R P
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Most of 852 million hungry and malnourished people in the world
are in Asia, particularly· in India (221 million) and in .China (142
million). In Asia, 75 % of the poor are in the rural areas, who depend
on agriculture for their livelihood. About half of the hungry live in
small holder farming households, while two-tenths are land-less and
roughly 10 % are pastoralists, fishfolk and forest users. Hungry people
are highly vulnerable to crises and hazards. The crises may be caused
by natural disasters, such as major.............
 
Publisher National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
 
Date 2009
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3893/1/oasis_paper2.pdf
Wani, S P and Shiferaw, B and Sreedevi, T K and Pathak, P and Singh, P and Sahrawat, K L and Mula, R P (2009) Poverty Pathways and Desertification: Strategy to Break the Unholy Nexus. In: Converting Deserts into Oasis. National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, India, pp. 28-45. ISBN 1933699418