Browsing Working Papers by Author "Gupta, Anil K."
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Conserving, Augmenting and Sharing Water
Gupta, Anil K. (2013-11-27)There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. Who would have imagined two decades ago that a very ... -
Cooperation in cooperatives: contributions of resources and skills
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-14)The question most basic to any discussion on cooperatives is: why is it, that elites in most cooperatives neglect the task of fostering cooperation amongst different classes of poolers of resources and instead, concentrate ... -
Corporate investment in agriculture research: issues in sustainable development
Gupta, Anil K.; Singh, Rakesh (2010-07-27)The productivity of agricultural inputs has been consistently declining over last two decades. Given the economic squeeze, Indian economy cannot afford to provide resources required for such a non-sustainable use of inputs. ... -
Cost of conservation of agrobiodiversity
Saxena, Sanjeev; Chandak, Vikas; Ghosh, Shrabani; Sinha, Riya; Jain, Neeru; Gupta, Anil K. (2010-01-16)The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation. ... -
Creating demand systems in drought prone regions: random thoughts and personal field notes from a group action - research project - journal II
Gupta, Anil K. (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 ... -
Credit Arrangements for Drought Prone Regions: Policy Prescriptions and planners Reaction
Gupta, Anil K. (2012-09-27)IIM-A Collaboration with NABARD and Swiss Development cooperation conducted a field study to identify policy option for rural credit in drought prone regions. A joint monitoring team for field study comprising of professionals ... -
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
Gupta, Anil K. (2009-07-25)Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ... -
Debate on biotechnology and intellectual property rights: protecting the interests of third world farmers and scientists
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-24)The debate on protection of intellectual property rights of the companies and scientific labs developing technologies through biotechnological means or otherwise has been highly surcharged with the emotions. -
Designing developmental organizations: search for an Indian theory
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-13)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 ... -
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
Gupta, Anil K. (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 ... -
Eat, Drink and be Healthy: A Paradigm Shift for Linking Food and Beverages Industry with People’s Knowledge and Institutions
Gupta, Anil K. (2013-11-26)The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and share the benefits. The paper lists seven models for building such linkages. ... -
Eco institutional perspective on maintaining diversity
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-24)The paper is organized in three parts. In part one, I discuss the phenomena of ecological diversity and its bearing on our learning, living and exchange systems. In part two, I provide examples of the interactions through ... -
Ecology market forces and design of resource delivery systems: socio-ecological perspective
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-14)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 ... -
Empathetic climate resilient frugal innovations for sustainable communities
Dey, Anamika R.; Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)Dealing with risk and uncertainty has contributed to the evolution of local knowledge, institutions and culture among farming, pastoral and artisanal communities at grassroots level. The traditional institutions, practices ... -
Empowering conservators of biodiversity and associated knowledge systems: an intellectual property based framework
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-01-16)Biotechnological and other value adding options provide an opportunity for valorising the biodiversity and associated knowledge systems. In the absence of this value addition, the erosion of biodiversity as well as traditional ... -
Empowerment for sustainable development: building upon local creativity and entrepreneurship in Vulnerable environments
Gupta, Anil K.; Patel, Kirit K.; Pastakia, A. R.; Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-04-17)A transition towards sustainable development requires recognition of the fundamental contradiction between the strategies which build upon what people do not know or have and the ones which take people s knowledge systems ... -
Establishing National Innovation Foundation: How does a tail wag the dog?
Gupta, Anil K. (2009-07-25)A simple search on the web about unaided technological innovations by common people from the unorganized sector will reveal the paucity of information worldwide. It is this gap, which Honey Bee Network started at IIMA ... -
Ethical issues in prospecting biodiversity
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-31)Biodiversity Treaty has recognized in an unequivocal manner the need for developing an accountable and equitable system for building relationship with people who conserve biodiversity and associated knowledge systems. ... -
Ethics of extraction: Biodiversity and indigenous knowledge
Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)Extraction of local knowledge of people has gone on for a very long time without any reciprocity or accountability towards the knowledge providers. The paper looks at several kinds of accountability of researchers such as ... -
Exploratory study of viewers perceptions of television advertising
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-07-27)Study of Consumers' attitude towards advertising helps the advertisers in planning their advertising campaigns. By comparative evaluation of advertisements across different elements viz. Creative strategies, appeals and ...