Reports and Documents

This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale and reduce the population in slums. Addressing the problem requires first a diagnosis of the market at the city level and a recognition that government interventions, rather than thwarting the operations of the market, should seek to make it operate better. This can

A paper on giving away Indian agriculture on a platter to Monsanto through public-private partnerships.

Special call for proposals on Priority Agriculture Areas by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

Input subsidies need to be contemplated with caution, with a clear consideration of the costs and benefits compared with conventional best practice of addressing market failures directly and using social policies to address social objectives with respect to poverty and food insecurity.

The Government of India enacted The Forest Rights Act, 2006
(Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers -
Recognition of Forest Rights – Act) to give forest dwelling
scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers the
opportunity to claim individual as well as community forest rights of

This study presents the patterns and determinants of agricultural systems of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, and modeling of food security and environmental degradation, and climate change impacts.

Bt Cotton (insect-resistant transgenic cotton) is often portrayed as that technological revolution in Indian cotton cultivation which has changed the cotton scenario in India and pushed it to higher yields to make India the second largest producer of Cotton in the world.

Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as cooking and lighting. This
paper proposes an alternative measure that is based on
energy demand.

This report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people