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The term ‘feminization of agriculture’ is generally used to indicate an expansion of women’s engagement in agricultural production, as labourers or decision-makers. Feminization of agriculture is often reported as a global trend. While...

Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many...

We assess the role of Rural Non-Farm Employment (RNFE) in livelihoods and in likely impacts of shocks like COVID 19. In India’s agri-food system, the preponderance of small farmers with low...

Though the share of agriculture in India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only 16.5%, the sector employs the largest share of the workforce (about 42.3% in 2019) as well as the largest...

After the disappearance of socialist State farms and cooperatives, the diversity of farms in the world seemed to have been reduced to a simple dichotomy: family farms on the one hand and corporate...