Browsing Faculty Publications (Bibliographic) by Author "Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar"

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    • Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system 

      Singh, Vartika; Stevanovi´c, Miodrag; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Beier, Felicitas; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Popp, Alexander (IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)
      In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to ...

    • Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system 

      Singh, Vartika; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Beier, Felicitas; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Popp, Alexander (IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)
      In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to manage ...

    • Can biofuels help achieve sustainable development goals in India? A systematic review 

      Das, Prantika; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Saxena, Satyam; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar (Elsevier, 2024-03)
      Biofuels are expected to play a pivotal role in developing economies' transition towards net-zero emissions. However, their promotion can cause multifaceted sustainability concerns. National biofuel policies often align ...

    • Consumer preference for nutrition front-of-pack-label formats in India: Evidence from a large-scale experimental survey 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Sanghvi, Rahul; Sahay, Arvind (Elsevier, 2023-09-16)
      Global policy discourse emphasizes placing front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPLs) on packaged foods, but debates continue to rage on the appropriate format. There are two key types of label formats, summary and informative. ...

    • Consumer preference for nutrition front-of-pack-label formats in India: Evidence from a large-scale experimental survey 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Sanghvi, Rahul; Sahay, Arvind (Elsevier, 2023-09-16)
      Global policy discourse emphasizes placing front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPLs) on packaged foods, but debates continue to rage on the appropriate format. There are two key types of label formats, summary and informative. ...

    • Demand for crop insurance in developing countries: new evidence from India 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Gupta, Shweta; Singh, Vartika; Ward, Patrick S. (Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020-09-29)
      Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options. ...

    • The distortion in the EU feed market due to import constraints on genetically modified soy 

      Basnet, Shyam Kumar; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Eriksson, Mattias; Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan (Springer Open, 2023-11-23)
      Feed importers in some EU member states face constraints on imports of genetically modified (GM) soy, a practice that may compromise the interests of EU livestock farmers. Using the cases of Sweden and Austria, we analyzed ...

    • Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible 

      Goyal, Yugank; Choudhury, Pranab Ranjan; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar (Elsevier, 2022-08-11)
      While insecure property rights are considered ‘perverse’ with respect to development, we examine what are the features most amenable for their persistence. Applying a Credibility Thesis framework in the context of rural ...

    • Oliver Williamson: the man who reduced the transaction cost of economics 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Goyal, Yugank (Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-07-11)
      On 21 May 2020, one of the most cited economists of all time and a key contributor to organisational studies, Oliver E Williamson passed away. His intellectual apparatus of transaction cost economics is a powerful tool to ...

    • Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance: insights from India 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Patil, Vikram; Tank, Nikita (Elsevier, 2022-01-05)
      Multiple-peril agricultural insurance, although operational in many developing countries, evokes mixed responses among smallholder farmers. In this context, we analyse the farmer-specific characteristics that are most ...

    • Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India 

      Jha, Chandan Kumar; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Saxena, Satyam; Singh, Vartika; Mosnier, Aline; Guzman, Katya Perez; Stevanović, Miodrag; Popp, Alexander; Lotze-Campen, Hermann (Springer, 2022-09-01)
      India has committed to reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35% from the 2005 level by 2030 in alignment with objectives of the Paris Agreement. This will require a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

    • The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets 

      Jha, Chandan Kumar; Singh, Vartika; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Dietrich, Jan Philipp; Mosnier, Aline; Weindl, Isabelle; Popp, Alexander; Traub, Guido Schmidt; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Lotze-Campen, Hermann (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022-06-28)
      The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, ...