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The Future of India's Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope

India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India’s independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impact of social welfare programs in India spanning more than a 75-year period.

The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets provides a comprehensive analysis of these systems by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on social protection, economic development, and social policy. It covers India’s social development in terms of three essential aspects of policy design: focus (intended beneficiaries), form (transfer modalities), and scope (developmental objectives). Highlighting the developmental achievements and shortcomings of the myriad of social welfare schemes, this book proposes a framework to foster human resilience through social protection.

This is an open-access book.

Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka

Chapter 2 – Are the Lessons from the Green Revolution Relevant for Agricultural Growth and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century?

Estudillo, Jonna P., Yoko Kijima and Tetsushi Sonobe (Eds) (2023) “Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa:  Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka” Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5542-6_2

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through a food systems lens. The Indian growth story is paradoxical. Despite multiple decades of economic growth, malnutrition and food insecurity persist. Growing populations and growing incomes have simultaneously increased demand for diet diversity and put pressure on agricultural systems. Rising trends in obesity along with non-communicable diseases, waxing regional inequality, and the looming influence of climate change forewarn us of a future public health crisis. This book provides an integrative Food Systems Approach (FSA) that captures these complexities while highlighting some of the major opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for creating a nutrition-secure future.

Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050

This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the pressures — threats as well as opportunities — on the global agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim is to help readers understand the context, by analyzing global trends and anticipating change for better planning and constructing pathways from the present to the future by focusing on the right questions and problems. The book contextualizes the role of international agricultural research in addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda and beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders, donors and policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more combined with rising incomes and changing diets can be fed sustainably and equitably, in the face of the growing climate threats.

Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World

Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 4