Category Archives: India

Issues,Priorities and Challenges for Indian Agriculture:A Worldbank View

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

While agriculture’s share in India’s economy has progressively declined to 18% due to the high growth rates of the industrial and services sectors, the sector’s importance in India’s economic and social fabric goes well beyond this indicator. First, nearly three-quarters … Continue reading →

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India’s Green Revolution Over?

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Farmers in the village of Chotia Khurd in northern India don’t realize it, but they symbolize a growing problem that could become a global crisis. They gathered on a recent morning in a stone-paved courtyard — a circle of Sikhs … Continue reading →

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India in Likely Global ‘hotspots’ of climate-induced food insecurity

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

A study has mapped global “hotspots” where climate-induced food insecurity is most likely to happen in the future, and it includes India. The study, ‘Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics’, was produced by the … Continue reading →

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Fast Growing Small Cities of India

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

There are 37 Indian cities among the world’s 300 fastest growing urban centres, according to a survey conducted by the City Mayors Foundation, an global think tank on urban affairs. Beihai in China is the fastest growing city in the … Continue reading →

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