Tag Search: “Land”
Decentralisation and spatial (mis)allocation of irrigation water
Canal water – an important source of irrigation in India – often tends to be unequally distributed among farmers within a geographical area. Based on a survey in the state of Odisha, following the dec...
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Sabyasachi Das
Souvik Dutta
14 February, 2025
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Advancing evidence-based tiger conservation
In the world’s most populated nation, natural landscapes are dramatically and rapidly being altered by human enterprise. In this context, Pranav Chanchani advocates for data-driven policymaking to sus...
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Pranav Chanchani
02 August, 2024
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Managing human-wildlife conflict in the Sundarbans
Besides being home to uniquely adapted tigers, the Sundarbans are a source of livelihood for the human population in the region. In this post, Danda and Mukhopadhyay discuss the nature of human-wildli...
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Anamitra Anurag Danda
Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay
01 August, 2024
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Tiger conservation in India
Despite a recent upward trend in tiger populations in India, the tiger remains on the endangered species list. Saving the tiger, therefore, is not a fait accompli but a continuous struggle that must b...
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Parikshit Ghosh
31 July, 2024
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Tiger conservation in a changing climate
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh – the only mangrove tiger habitat – is a top priority for global tiger conservation. Discussing the extreme climate vulnerability of the region, Anamitra Anurag ...
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Anamitra Anurag Danda
31 July, 2024
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Historical land policies and socioeconomic development: The case of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is characterised by significant intra-state variation in developmental outcomes, with research suggesting that this could be partially attributable to the long-run effects of differences...
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Kartikeya Batra
14 June, 2024
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Why is land expensive in India, and what can be done about it?
The price of land in India is high relative to its fundamental value, impacting economic development in the country. In this post, Gurbachan Singh explains why this is so, in terms of two broad factor...
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Gurbachan Singh
29 February, 2024
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The tribal communities of central India: Challenges and way forward
The ‘Status of Adivasi Livelihoods’ Report has once again brought attention to the dire situation of tribes in central India. Based on a survey of tribal households in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, ...
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Dibyendu Chaudhuri
Parijat Ghosh
16 February, 2024
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The role of caste in agricultural technology diffusion
Local social structures, such as the jati-caste system in India, can play an important role in the extent of diffusion of new and beneficial agricultural technologies. This article builds on an existi...
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Alain de Janvry
Manaswini Rao
Elisabeth Sadoulet
14 November, 2023
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India’s millets consumption and trade over the last three decades
In the first post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Manan Bhan introduces the concept of ‘embodied land area’, which accounts for land use at the p...
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Manan Bhan
17 October, 2023
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets
Although millets were a staple food in many Indian diets, their consumption has declined over the last few decades. Taking into account their resilience to climate change and potential to contribute t...
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Bharat Ramaswami
16 October, 2023
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Forest Rights Act: An account of contradictory conservation laws
In the second of two articles about the implementation of Forest Rights Act, Bharti Nandwani uses data on land conflicts to investigate why land disputes increased after the introduction of FRA. She p...
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Bharti Nandwani
22 September, 2023
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