India`s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs, Frankel Francine R.

Автор: Pelinka Anton
Название: Democracy Indian Style: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Creation of India`s Political Culture
ISBN: 1412854881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412854887
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Описание: Democracy Indian Style explores the social and cultural factors underlying India`s successful democracy by describing and analyzing the life of Subhas Chandra Bose and his impact on India before and after independence

Автор: Thottathil Sapna E.
Название: India`s Organic Farming Revolution: What It Means for Our Global Food System
ISBN: 1609382773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382773
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Should you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s not organic? A lot of consumers who would like to do the right thing for their health and the environment are asking such questions.Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it—what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in southern India, she shows us a place where the so-called “Green Revolution” program of hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and rising pesticide use had failed to reduce hunger while it caused a cascade of economic, medical, and environmental problems. Farmers burdened with huge debts from buying the new seeds and chemicals were committing suicide in troubling numbers. Farm labourers suffered from pesticide poisoning and rising rates of birth defects. A sharp fall in biodiversity worried environmental activists, and everyone was anxious about declining yields of key export crops like black pepper and coffee.In their debates about how to solve these problems, farmers, environmentalists, and policymakers drew on Kerala’s history of and continuing commitment to grassroots democracy. In 2010, they took the unprecedented step of enacting a policy that requires all Kerala growers to farm organically by 2020. How this policy came to be and its immediate economic, political, and physical effects on the state’s residents offer lessons for everyone interested in agriculture, the environment, and what to eat for dinner. Kerala’s example shows that when done right, this kind of agriculture can be good for everyone in our global food system.

Автор: Glaeser
Название: The Green Revolution Revisited
ISBN: 0415592496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415592499
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Описание: The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides. This book examines the Green Revolution concept in South America, Asia and Africa.

Автор: Director Centre for South Asian Studies
Название: Power, Policy, and Protest: The Politics of India`s Special Economic Zones
ISBN: 0198097344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198097341
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: India`s attempt to boost exports and create jobs by establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) represents an intensification of its market-based development paradigm. More than a decade after importing the SEZ concept from China, India contains hundreds of these walled-off, deregulated, low-tax enclaves. But in democratic India, protest movements arose against many proposed SEZs. Through detailed case studies of SEZ development in eleven states, this book examinesregional variations in both popular mobilization and state response.

Автор: Sengupta, Jati K.
Название: India`s Economic Growth
ISBN: 1403996172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403996176
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book examines new policies for accelerating India's economic growth. This book discusses a set of dynamic strategies for growth, emphasizing the dynamic role of information technology and the New Economy. These show how new growth and the historical experiences of fast-growing Asian countries can be utilised for a new growth paradigm in India.

Автор: Swaminathan M S
Название: 50 Years Of Green Revolution: An Anthology Of Research Papers
ISBN: 9813200065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813200067
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket. This transformation during the 1960s took just about 4 years. The yield increases achieved in wheat and then in rice which occurred in just about half decade is far in excess of the yield increases during the preceding 4000 years. This remarkable feat was achieved with the leadership of the author using the dwarf wheat types which had been produced by Norman Borlaug in Mexico.

The research and development of green revolution of wheat and rice at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was led by the author along with his team of students and co-workers. He has published over 100 papers on green revolution and the ever-green revolution which is a refinement of the former. This book is a compilation of just about 40 of his numerous research papers, monographs and books published by him on this subject.

The papers in this book bring out the scientific basis of the modification of the plant type so as to be responsive to exogenous addition of chemical fertilizers and irrigation. The ideal plant type enables capture of adequate sunlight and using the chemical fertilizers added to the soil, produce substantial photosynthetic starch. And because the plants have short and thick culm, they are able to withstand enormous amounts of grains in their ears. This indeed was the basis of breaking the yield barriers associated with native varieties. The book also brings out that green revolution had established the food security at the national level but not at the individual household levels of millions of resource-poor rural small and marginal farming, fishing and landless families. Further green revolution was commodity-centric and the manner of its practice led to environmental degradation and social inequities. This author realized as early as 1972 that system of agriculture in India should be designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. In pursuit of it, this author further designed an evergreen revolution with systems approach. What this means is providing concurrent attention to ecological foundations of agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural people.

The book also brings out that green revolution was a team effort involving scientists, policy makers, administrators, farmers and students.

This book is an outstanding example of green revolution providing a breathing space by putting the cereal grain production rate ahead of the population growth rate and then when food security has been adequately established, the system is changed to achieve productivity in perpetuity without causing environmental and social harm.

Автор: Tikekar Maneesha
Название: Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia: Political Developments in India`s Neighbourhood
ISBN: 0198098634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198098638
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: With essays on India and its neighbourhood against a brief historical backdrop of each country and addressing the vital question on constitutionalism, this book throws light on democracy, secularism, human rights, and human development in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.