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Background Food insecurity and hunger are global concerns further exacerbated by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. There is a need to understand the depth of this impact, especially among smallholder...

The customary practice of crop residue burning (CRB) is a major policy concern across several developing economies because of the associated increase in air pollution and reduction in soil...

To emerge as a dominant socio-technological regime, agroecological transitions require supportive public policies and collective agroecological actions, with refinement in scientific/technological practices, cultures, markets, and user preferences...

Highlights: Headline CPI inflation averaged 6.3 percent in October 2022-February 2023, a percentage lower than that in the first half of FY 22/23 (Figure 2.8). Inflation settled...

The paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap by examining India’s pulse complex, consisting of production, consumption, and trade policies. India’s pulse policies are anchored in a cereal-centric...

India is faced with a triple burden of malnutrition, viz., under-nutrition, micronutrient deficiency and over-nutrition. In 2017, about 68.2% of the total death of children under-5, was due to malnutrition...

Using comprehensive telephone survey data from 2,599 households, the paper estimates the status of food insecurity using the food insecurity experience scale in rural households in eastern...

The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. The impact of COVID-19 has been especially devastating for low-income families in rural areas of India...

This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in our earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020). In that book, we documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...

The unprecedented shutdown of economic activities led to a colossal loss of livelihoods. To understand the impact of this national lockdown on rural households’ income, the paper empirically examines the determinants of reduction...