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Creating demand systems in drought prone regions: random thoughts and personal field notes from a group action - research project - journal II
(2010-03-14)
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 ...
Famine and famine relief: coping strategy at the district level
(2010-03-13)
Drought induced famine is a recurrent feature in Rajasthan. The district (Udaipur in this case) is the critical unit for planning and implementing relief measures to tackle the crisis of famine. This paper such to examine ...
Bureaucratization of drought conditions: a critique of drought policies
(2010-04-17)
India s policies and programmes designed to address problems of drought prone areas represent a Bureaucratic ethos and a development regime . Hinged on naturalistic and technocratic approaches to the definition and ...
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)
National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ...