It is widely believed that land markets, including both land sales and tenancy markets, are
neither efficient nor conducive to social equity. It is often argued that tenants, particularly …

Food aid, both for short-term emergency relief and as program food aid that helps address
medium-term food “deficits”, is often a major component of food security strategies in …

By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature,
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …

Investment in productivity: the research system, technology transfer, extension, and
infrastructure; The development and spread of modern crop varieties; Total factor …

This paper presents estimates of farmers' incomes from agriculture over the past three
decades. The income earned by farmers from agricultural activities after paying for input …

Although many Indians still do not have an adequate diet, the national food situation is
dramatically better today than 30 years ago. In 1970, India's population was only two-thirds …

The fund allocation in agricultural sector in India is heavily tilted toward input subsidies
provision; however, researchers seem to favor investment expenditure instead. The present …

The economy-wide analysis of input subsidies in Indian agriculture reveals that subsidies
have outlived their aim and have become unsustainable. In order to release resources for …

This paper looks at trends in the growth of agricultural production in India over the last one
and a half decades, identifies factors that affect agricultural growth and analyses constraints …

Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy examines the intersections of globalisation,
technology and politics through a detailed, empirically-based examination of agricultural …