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Bhoochetana: Process Documentation, A program that helped farmers come out of low productivity and poor economic status
To Kick start agricultural Growth rate for improving the livelihoods of 60% of population dependent on Agriculture, Government of
Karnataka undertook a mission project to unlock the potential of rainfed Agriculture across ...
Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building—Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development: Epilogue
Climate change is arguably the single most dominant environmental threat facing humanity. Its manifestations, particularly through
rising temperatures, changing rainfall, sealevel
rise and increasing droughts and floods ...
BHOOCHETANA: Innovative Institutional Partnerships to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India
Although there has been a considerable development in publicprivate
partnership in developing countries, there are very few examples
of multiinstitutional
partnership for transferring agricultural technologies to smallholders. ...
Transforming Weather Index-Based Crop Insurance in India: Protecting Small Farmers from Distress Status and a Way Forward
In India, agriculture contributes 14% of the GDP and employs 54% of the workforce (NCAER 2013). It accounts for 8.56% of the
country’s exports. Despite agriculture’s steady decline in share in the GDP, it remains the largest ...
Rythu Kosam (Andhra Pradesh Primary Sector Mission). Baseline Summary Report.
Andhra Pradesh has set a target for itself of becoming one of the top three states in India by 2022, in terms of socioeconomic
development and ease of doing business. The state aspires to achieve the status of a developed ...
Bhoochetana: Building Resilience and Livelihoods through Integrated Watershed Management
Rainfed areas are hotspots of poverty and malnutrition, and are prone to severe land degradation of natural resources. Globally, 80% of
agriculture is rainfed providing 62% of the world’s staple food. With increasing ...
Socio-economic and Agricultural Vulnerability Across Districts of Karnataka
Vulnerability assessments can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies targeted towards climate
change and its impacts on ecosystems, and those who depend upon these resources for ...
Multi-scale vulnerability assessment for adaptation planning
Vulnerability of communities and natural ecosystems,
to potential impacts of climate change in developing
countries like India, and the need for adaptation are
rapidly emerging as central issues in the debate
around policy ...