After independence the question of land reforms, as a fundamental condition for economic development assumed high priority at policy-making level both at the centre and in the state. The Bihar Legislative Assembly was the first to come out with legislation on land reforms. Bihar land reform act ...
Pastures and crops have been expanding at an accelerated rate in the forests of the Colombian Amazon since the peace accords were signed in 2016. The rapid loss of tropical rainforests is threatening the integrity of protected areas and connectivity in t
Hence at the time of independence, the major challenge was to reform the agrarian structure and this brought about land reforms in the country. Various programs and policies that have bearing on land resources is given in Annex Table A.2. In the subsequent Five Year Plans, land Policy was ...
On 10 May, I wrote to his former department head, Ian Rutherfurd: Dear Dr Rutherfurd, I am Contributing Editor at The Statesman of Calcutta and New Delhi, and would like to be in touch with your colleague Brendon Whyte but there is no email for him at your site. Please tell him ...
State support is necessary for a gender-aware land reform, but鈥攁s the Bodghaya struggle in Bihar highlights鈥攕o is 'grassroots' organisation that includes gender issues in more than a tokenistic fashion.doi:10.1080/10289852.1997.10520132Jacobs...
Rajiv Gandhi and the Origins of India’s 1991 Economic Reform Three Memoranda to Rajiv Gandhi 1990-91 Did Jagdish Bhagwati “originate”, “pioneer”, “intellectually father” India’s 1991 economic reform? Did Manmohan Singh? Or did I, through my encounter with Rajiv Gandhi, just as Siddharth...
By combing through the relevant literature, it is easy to find that current research on farmers’ land transfer behavior mainly focuses on the scale of land transfer [16], land transfer mode [14], land transfer system reform [31], land transfer willingness and behavior [32,33,34,35], fact...
Nath Gartaula 1,*,†, Pashupati Chaudhary 2 and Kamal Khadka 2 1 Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MA R3T 5V5, Canada 2 Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Box 324, Pokhara 33700, Nepal; E-Mails: pchaudhary@libird.org (P....
While the rapid progress of agricultural development in China could be attributed to the introduction of general and agricultural reform in 1978 [25], that of the USA is attributed to higher total factor productivity [26]. Figure 3. Percentage of total value of agriculture output—2016. (...