A question which has remained under explored in Research on the Cooperatives and Rural Development is whether the Western European Models of organizing cooperatives further based on Agri-business concept as it evolved at ...

Neglect of Ecological (i.e. edaphic, climatic and natural resource endowments besides man-biotic interactions) variables in organizational theory literature in west is understandable due to near complete subsumption of ...

Land use planning in tropical developing countries has posted a tremendous challenge to planners owing to high ecological diversity. The problem is particularly complex in semi-arid regions where due to high degree of ...

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad had initiated an action-research project in three districts with similar ecological and social stress but dissimilar administrative system. A group of faculty members from Centre ...

Developmental organizations in public sector emerge largely to allocate resources to such regions and people which may not be able to attract market forces on their own. However, many of these commercial organizations ...

This paper summarizes experience of an action-research project on district Project Planning in six drought prone regions in which both the authors were involved for 3 years (1977-78 - 1980-81). Major thrust of this effort ...

The differences in homeostatic ability of various sections of the society influencing their risk adjustment capacity in drought prone regions seem to explain why more people stay on than why few people migrate out. In this ...

Boundaries of most natural systems are fuzzy and thus amenable to contraction and expansion over time and space due to interaction of various natural and human variables. Fuzzy boundaries often require homeostatic indicators ...

How did an extremely less developed, isolated mountain country succeed in keeping its 64 per cent of the area under forest? How did it succeed in avoiding any case of widespread deprivation and keep ecological balance in ...

Banking for rural transformation in nineties will face many challenges that require hard choices. Challenges from demand side include (a) declining profitability and sustainability of agriculture, (b) continued stagnation ...