India

A case for decentralising agriculture

Given how rural India is hit by Covid’s second wave, ‘grow local, sell local, consume local’ has assumed significance.
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Lending her name, but not having a say? Gender norms and credit for agriculture in Odisha

In the agricultural state of Odisha, we are studying a new credit model by Dvara E-Registry that issues loans based on georeferenced crop pictures and associated satellite imagery for a farmer’s plots.
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Covid-19: How India fared during lockdown

Possibly even more than a public health crisis, Covid-19 is an economic crisis manifested most severely in the labour market.
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An IFPRI Interactive: Self-Employed Women’s Livelihoods During COVID-19

"Determination and Resilience amid COVID-19 Uncertainty," provides a close look at how the pandemic impacted the livelihoods of five members of (SEWA) in India
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Episode 12: The Challenges of Phone Surveys with Women in India during COVID

This episode features Shweta Gupta who tells us the story of how the pandemic has upended the way IFPRI researchers are doing household surveys.
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