Browsing Working Papers by Author "Gupta, Anil K."
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Action research for micro level planning: a self appraisal
Mathur, Kuldeep; Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-13)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 ... -
Agenda for Research in Dry Regions: Socio-Ecological Prespectives
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Agricultural biotechnology in India: ethics, business and politics
Gupta, Anil K.; Chandak, Vikas (2010-07-22)Development of sustainable pest management strategies in agriculture has become necessary in view of increasing non-viability of chemical based approach. Among various approaches for the purpose, policy makers have paid ... -
Analytical Review of Selected CMA Studies in Dry Regions 1973-1983
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Assessing biological diversity and associative knowledge system: can ethics influence equity
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-04-08)Regions of high biodiversity are often inhabited by the poorest people. The irony is that many of local healers and other herbal experts do not even charge for their services to the community. They conserve biological ... -
Banking for rural transformation: issues for '90s
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-15)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 ... -
Banking in backward regions: banks-NGO-poor interface alternatives for action
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-19)The problem of improving access of poor to formal banking system in risky ecological regions has acquired added importance in recent times. The ecological imbalances, reduced opportunities for productive investments, ... -
Biodiversity and poverty vis-a-vis biotechnology and prosperity
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-22)The debate on intellectual property rights of third world farmers, pastoralists and artisans has almost always been guided by the fear that the industry in the developing countries (particularly drug industry) would be ... -
Blending cultural values indigenous technology and environment: the experience of Bhutan
Gupta, Anil K.; Ura, Karma (2010-03-15)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 ... -
Blending universal with local ethic: accountability towards nature, perfect stranger and society
Gupta, Anil K. (2009-12-12)Conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out ... -
Blowing ten myths about agroforestry: restoring the productivity of marginal dry regions
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-27)The ten myths discussed in this paper are: 1) Privatization of common lands leads to sustainable agro-forestry based land use, 2) Poor people have shorter time frame and have lesser trees in and around their fields, 3) ... -
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
Gupta, Anil K.; Sinha, Riya; Prakash, T. N.; Koradia, Dileep; Vivekanandan, P. (2010-01-18)The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ... -
Building upon peoples ecological knowledge: Framework for studying culturally embedded CPR Institutions
Gupta, Anil K. (2012-10-17)We have earlier argued (Gupta 1990) that portfolio of activities evolved by household for adjusting with risks includes a combination of apparently rational strategies of livelihood. The portfolio is based on resources ... -
Business incubation development in India
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-01-16)The paper provides the experience of setting up first incubator for grassroots innovations in the form of GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) and make a case for replicating this model elsewhere in the ... -
CBD and TRIPS: empowering knowledge rich, economically poor people through IRP reforms
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-07-20)The discussion in the recent COP 8 meeting ending on March 31,2006 the subject of prior Informed Consent and protection of intellectual property rights of knowledge holders remained very contentious. Here discuss various ... -
Choosing the right mix: market state and institutions for environmentally sustainable industrial growth
Gupta, Anil K.; Prakash, Aseem (2011-09-02)Efficiency, Growth and Exports are the main items on nationzs economic agenda. There is some concern (perhaps not adequate) for developing Safety Nets for people hurt/left out by growth. Unfortunately environmental ... -
Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will and when
Gupta, Anil K. (2009-12-12)Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, ... -
Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: shall we save the goose that laid the golden eggs so long
Gupta, Anil K. (2010-03-28)Large number of local communities have conserved biodiversity and the associated knowledge systems despite remaining very poor. Sometimes, they have refused to receive any compensation in view of sharing the information. ... -
Conserving diversity for sustainable development: the case of plants of insecticidal and veterinary medicine importance
Gupta, Anil K.; Patel, Kirit; Patil, B.L. (2010-07-14)The paper provides list of several hundred plants which have been used for veterinary medicine or plant protection purposes by the local people in India and elsewhere. Our continuing work on documentation of local technical ... -
Conserving, Augmenting and Sharing Water
Gupta, Anil K. (2013-11-28)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 ...