The state of Madhya Pradesh is one of India's leading agricultural states where the contribution of agriculture to the state gross domestic product is 26.9 percent (Yr 2001-02), while the total working...
Rice is a staple food for people in Andhra Pradesh, who buy most of it (70 percent) on the open market and get the balance (30 percent) from the Public Distribution System (PDS). Statistics show that the...
The Village Savings and Credit Organization (VSCO) is a community-managed microfinance organization developed in Sri Lanka under the Community Development and Livelihood Improvement Project, or Gemi Diriya...
The Karnataka Watershed Development Project (KWDP), known locally as Sujala, was initiated in the year 2001 and is being implemented in seven districts of Karnataka. The project is scheduled to end on...
Small and marginal farmers in rural Andhra Pradesh have been subject to intensive exploitation by moneylenders, traders, and middlemen. Lack of access to the market, lack of power to negotiate prices due...
Experience in livelihoods programs in South Asia is generating lessons learned about this people sector and how to protect and develop the capacity of the poor to reach out to markets and services, whoever...