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The NBeG47 Chickpea Variety, Mechanical Harvesting, and Gender in Rural India
With a growing population of over 1.3 billion people, India will need to intensify agricultural production to meet growing nutritional demands; it is particularly important to increase the productivity of pulse crops, which ...
Mainstreaming Gender and Empowering Women in Agriculture in the Thar Region of India
Social inequities based on gender norms reinforce nonparticipation of women in decision making at various levels, consequently
depriving them of the benefits arising out of any technological advances. These advances could ...
Involvement of Rural Women in Field Activities
Women are an actively involved component of rural life in dryland areas. They play key role in various agricultural operations such as harvesting of fodder and it’s feeding to livestock, milking of animals, making farm ...
Nutritional Dynamics of Adolescent Girls
Malnutrition continues to be one of India's major human development challenge. Despite enormous economic progress achieved in the past two to three decades, malnutrition rates continue to be high especially among children ...
Delivering support to women farmers in Afghanistan. Caravan- A Review of agriculture in dry areas
In a traditional society like Afghanistan where pervading social and cultural norms place
restrictions on the independence of women, providing support to female farmers is never
straightforward and resistance can often be ...
Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis
FAO has identified potato as a crop for ensuring future food security for the global poor,
particularly in the developing countries. Strength of this analysis was demonstrated in
India during 2003 and 2013 in terms of ...