Land

A ballad of Singur: Progress with human dignity

The idea behind the car factory in Singur was one of using market principles of growth to transform a predominantly agrarian society. This idea, envisaged by the state government, failed because it did not take into account the important aspect of the value of land to peasants and the dignity it accorded to them.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2008
Ranjit Sau
Economic and Political Weekly
43
43
10
Tags:
Land, Land Resources, Land Ownership, Agriculture, Singur, Development, Displacement, Farmers, Conflicts, Compensation, Unemployment, Tata Motors, West Bengal
Economy

 Employment plan

bangladesh will introduce a 100 days employment generation programme for the rural poor next year. This is part of the country

Publication Date: 
14/10/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Economy, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, Bangladesh, Rural Poverty
Land

We have been deprived of a golden opportunity: Lalganj villagers

Lucknow: Agitated over the state government

Publication Date: 
14/10/2008
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Unemployment, High Court, Political Parties, Rae Bareli (D)
Economy

Forest office to foster tribal hamlets - Government move for job generation in East singhbhum

To create better employment opportunities in remote rural pockets, the Dhalbhum forest division has decided to adopt 10 tribal villages in East Singhbhum as a part of the Integrated Village Farming Scheme launched by the government this fiscal.

Publication Date: 
14/10/2008
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Tribals, Rural Development, Unemployment, Purba Singhbhum
Industry

Right choice, baby!

Apparently, PepsiCo's Indian interests are not confined to Indra Nooyi. The soft drink major has big plans and will invest $500 million over the next three years in its Indian operations. It hopes to triple its revenues over the next five year, as well. Nooyi, chairperson and CEO of m PepsiCo, is on a visit to India with a 26-member executive committee.

Publication Date: 
05/10/2008
Week (Kochi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Soft Drinks Industry, PepsiCo, Development, Unemployment, UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)
Land

The decline of village common lands and changes in village society: South India, c.1850-2000

The widely accepted view that emphasises the negative impact of the decline in common property resources on the village poor generally presumes that village common lands would have been used by all villagers inclusive of the poor without serious differences in the right to access them. Mainly based on

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Haruka Yanagisawa
Conservation & Society
6
4
293
Tags:
Forests, Land, Land Reforms, Land Encroachments, Common Property Resources, Wastelands, Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Landless, Unemployment, History, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli (D), Statistics, Rural Poverty
Forests

Socio-economic heterogeneity and distirbutional implications of Joint Forest Management (JFM)

In a developing country like India, the development of rural economy through effective and proper management of common property resources (CPRs) such as forests has increasingly become an integral part of sustainable development policy in the past couple of decades.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Naresh Chandra Sahu
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
63
4
614
Tags:
Forests, Common Property Resources, Forest Resources, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Landless, Unemployment, Orissa (Odisha), Angul (D), Kalahandi, Mayurbhanj, Rural Poverty
Habitat And Urbanisation

TARA Karigar Mandal: An emerging institution

A dual objective of improved livelihoods of building artisans and efficient delivery of

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Sharad Pant
Development Alternatives
18
10
1
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Green Buildings, Artisans, Unemployment, Bundelkhand
Agriculture

Agricultural exit problems: causes and consequences

Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and the share of the population within the rural or agricultural sector is extremely diverse, even among regions starting from similar levels of development, such as Asia and Africa. The pattern in developing Asia is characterized by

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Derek Headey, Dirk Bezemer, Peter B. Hazell
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Prices, Economy, Urbanisation, Economic Development, Informal Sector, Unemployment, Africa, Asia
Economy

Rural resistance

Thousand of unskilled workers employed in works undertaken by the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) across Tamil Nadu are agitated over the erosion of a substantial part of their daily wages.

Publication Date: 
26/09/2008
S. Viswanathan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Agricultural Labourers, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Unemployment, Tamil Nadu

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