Left to launch movement against illegal mining
BHUBANESWAR: Leaders of the Left parties today accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of promoting mines mafias to loot minerals of the State in the name of industrialisation.
BHUBANESWAR: Leaders of the Left parties today accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of promoting mines mafias to loot minerals of the State in the name of industrialisation.
Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter.
The 20th century witnessed unprecedented growth in agricultural productivity spurred by technological change and predicated on the commitments of governments to invest in agricultural research and development (R&D) and supporting sectors. In developing agricultural areas, spectacular growth occurred most visibly in the locus of the rice- and wheat-based
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has decided to constitute two committees for making the proposed farmers
Putting the onus on developed countries to alleviate poverty by scrapping protectionist trade policies, Britain on Monday demanded an end to agricultural export subsidies in five years warning that
This paper outlines the climate-conflict interlinkages and the challenges involved in responding to their combined challenge. Establishing the overall goal of international policy on adaptation as helping people in developing countries adapt successfully to climate change even where there is state fragility or conflict risk, the paper makes and explains eight specific policy recommendations.
<p>Providing sustainable financial services for rural areas and agriculture in developing countries has proven to be difficult in spite of recent reforms and billions of dollars spent in subsidizing programs to develop financial institutions. This paper presents a literature review of the lessons learned in the use of subsidies and investments as instruments of agricultural development finance.
Fairtrade covers the costs of sustainable production, plus a premium for the farmers to invest in tackling poverty and promoting sustainable development. In other words it's win-win.
<p><span id="itro1">This new UNDP report highlights the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and outlines how these challenges can be tackled successfully.</span></p> <p>The purpose
This report starts with a description of the methodology followed in the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) in Asia Project, including the overall project approach and some key concepts applied.
<p>This document contains summary sheet of low carbon economy on Poverty reduction. Low carbon development can potentially contribute to poverty reduction by improving access to affordable clean energy by the poor and to sustainable agriculture.
India is deeply committed to economic reform but improving the fortunes of its vast rural population and promoting agricultural development and infrastructure are its priorities, the Prime Minister,
Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously responded to the commercialisation of agriculture. Rice received considerable commercial
Much of the scholarship associated with the “urban turn” in south Asia has focused on the upper middle class or the poor. This study examines social change through the lens of interstitial places and populations.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting Nepal a grant sum of US $200,000 to make service delivery in the agriculture and livestock sectors more responsive to poor and disadvantaged groups,
Most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are facing extreme or high risk of food shortages, according to a Food Security Risk Index ranking of 148 nations. Pakistan, ranked 11th on the index, is at
The recent sharp increase in food prices should have a benefited millions of poor people who make their living from agriculture.
ICIMOD’s Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) is a household survey tool designed to capture key elements of poverty, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in mountain contexts for the Hindu Kush
This paper by the New Climate Economy’s India Initiative argues that India’s efforts to achieve rapid, inclusive and sustainable development have been hampered in the past by pervasive inefficiencies that
The Food and Agriculture Organi-sation (FAO) of the United Nations has put Bangladesh on a list of 31 countries that are in substantial need of food assistance in 2009. Most of the food-insecure least developed countries (LDCs) are in Africa, while five are in Asia, and one is Caribbean.