The public distribution system and food security in India

NA George, FH McKay - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Public Distribution System (PDS) of India plays a crucial role in reducing food insecurity
by acting as a safety net by distributing essentials at a subsidised rate. While the PDS forms …

[图书][B] Mass starvation: The history and future of famine

A De Waal - 2017 - books.google.com
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people
every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines …

Towards appropriate mainstreaming of “Theory of Change” approaches into agricultural research for development: Challenges and opportunities

YT Maru, A Sparrow, JRA Butler, O Banerjee, R Ison… - Agricultural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Food insecurity persists in many parts of Africa and Asia, despite ongoing agricultural
research for development (AR4D) interventions. This is resulting in a growing demand for …

[图书][B] The aid lab: Understanding Bangladesh's unexpected success

N Hossain - 2017 - books.google.com
From an unpromising start as' the basket-case'to present day plaudits for its human
development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary …

Aftermath of climate change on Bangladesh economy: an analysis of the dynamic computable general equilibrium model

SS Hossain, H Delin, M Mingying - Journal of Water and Climate …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Climate change is widely acknowledged as a serious threat to global development, and
Bangladesh is no exception; without a doubt, global warming has placed Bangladesh …

Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia

PR Brown, M Anwar, MS Hossain, R Islam… - … Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is a package of practices
that could improve the sustainability of smallholder farm productivity and profitability …

India's national food security programme: A strategic insight

M Singha Mahapatra, B Mahanty - Sādhanā, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Indian National Food Security Programme, with a goal to provide highly subsidized
food grains to more than 800 million people in every nook and corner of the vast country …

'Lean on me': Sifarish, mediation & the digitisation of state bureaucracies in India

T Chambers - Ethnography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Through an ethnographic focus on Muslim neighbourhoods in a North Indian city, this article
traces the effects of increasing digitisation of Public Distribution Systems (PDS) and ID …

An economy-wide analysis of climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in Bangladesh

O Banerjee, M Mahzab, S Raihan… - Climate Change …, 2015 - World Scientific
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change (CC) with higher
temperatures reducing crop yields and sea level rise decreasing arable land supply. The …

A hierarchy of needs for achieving impact in international research for development

JRA Butler, T Darbas, J Addison, EL Bohensky… - Social Sci …, 2017 - books.google.com
In developing countries, change in environmental and socio-economic systems is occurring
at unprecedented rates, driven by rapid globalisation, technological advances …