In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest …
Ranchi, June 2: The second social audit of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will kick off in the state from Friday. Unlike last year
With the proposed food security law likely to get a momentum after the formal constitution of the National Advisory Council (NAC), under the chairmanship of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Rural Development Ministry has also decided to speed up the process for identification of rural below poverty line (BPL) families. …
Rural India is much poorer than officially thought. The Planning Commission has accepted the report of a committee, led by economist Suresh Tendulkar, which estimates that more than 41 per cent of rural India is poor. States will now have to issue more below poverty line (bpl) cards. But is …
This publication presents the results of this process: i.e., an analytical and strategic framework for value chain development in the HKH mountain areas. The first part looks at the need to adapt the generic value chain framework to the mountain context, and examines the mountain specificities (unique/niche production, limited accessibility, …
While management of natural resources is crucial, micro finance is a catalyst for achieving sustainable agriculture. The experience of HIH shows how micro finance has played a supportive role in the ecological journey of a large number of farmers in Tamil Nadu.
SHG and their federations have become a movement in India. To sustain the benefits emerging from this movement, it is important that they become independent in all aspects and take full ownership. This means that the facilitating agencies should minimise their role, withdrawing gradually. Self regulation of SHGs and their …
Farmers need credit for various reasons. But their inability to repay has been an important reason for not being able to access timely credit. Pragathibandhu is an innovative programme which makes the poor bankable by diversifying income sources and facilitating labour sharing. http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/india/2-finance-for-farming/financing-small-farmers-2013-an-innovative/at_download/article_pdf
Rural India is much poorer than officially thought. The Planning Commission has accepted the report of a committee, led by economist Suresh Tendulkar, which estimates that more than 41 per cent of rural India is poor. States will now have to issue more below poverty line (bpl) cards. But is …
Five hundred and forty-five million mobile phones. 665 million people defecating in the open (the Chinese figure is 37 million). Courtesy, United Nations University, these numbers have grabbed headlines. We have had a total sanitation campaign (TSC) since 1999, with subsidies to rural poor households for constructing individual household toilets, …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the programme for agriculture development in the State should be based on growing population and food requirements of the people. Addressing a function to mark the
The rural community-led Village Relief Funds will be established in remote 3000 tribal villages to help the poor tribal families combat emergency situations. Presently, over 650 Village Relief Funds are successfully serving the poor. The initiative has been supported by the Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (MPRLP) in nearly 3000 …
BHUBANESWAR: The Krushak Morcha of the BJP today held the Government responsible for the suicide of 68 farmers in the State. Passing several resolutions in the first State executive committee meeting here, the farmers wing of the party attributed the suicide cases to the faulty agricultural policies of both the …
Touching the border of Birbhum in West Bengal , in this abjectly poor district of Sahebgunj in Jharkhand the story of despair is stark. In the black stone mines of Pakur and beyond, run the dark narratives of Kala Azar, silicosis, malaria, tuberculosis and rampant malnourishment. Poverty stares brazenly but …
