relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/9916/
title: Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana
creator: Raju, K V
creator: Wani, S P
creator: Anantha, K H
subject: Agriculture
subject: Bhoochetana
subject: Rainfed Agriculture
subject: Karnataka
description: The vast majority of farmers in the developing world are  smallholders. An estimated 85 per cent o f them farm less than 2  hectares (World Bank, 2008). Moreover, 75 per cent of poor people  live in rural areas, of which 2.1 billion survive on less than $2 a  day and 880 million on less than $1 a day. Most of them depend on  agriculture for their livelihoods (World Bank, 2009). Thus, promoting  integrated sustainable agriculture farming systems to meet food  and nutrition needs is imperative for meeting the Millennium  Development Goals (MDGs) of halving poverty and hunger by 2015  (United Nations, 1995). This requires complementary knowledge  from formal agricultural R8cD (research and development) and  support from policies and other institutions. Therefore, in order to  accelerate sustainable agricultural development, it is essential to link  formal and informal knowledge and innovation. Innovations need  to involve technologies, organisations, institutions or policies for  significant improvement in performance...
publisher: Academic Foundation
date: 2017
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/9916/1/Vicissitudes%20of%20Agric.%20in%20the%20fast%20growing%20Indian%20Economy.pdf
identifier:   Raju, K V and Wani, S P and Anantha, K H  (2017) Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India : A Case Study of Bhoochetana.   In:  Vicissitudes of Agriculture in the Fast Growing Indian Economy: Challenges, Strategies and the Way Forward.   Academic Foundation, New Delhi, pp. 313-341.  ISBN 9789332703360