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Social Significance of Villages]]></title><author><![CDATA[John Harriss ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/the_social_significance_of_villages</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt of Rural Households in India: A Note on the All-India Debt and Investment Survey ]]></title><author><![CDATA[Pallavi Chavan ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/debt_of_rural_households_in_india</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexican Agriculture and NAFTA: A 20-Year Balance Sheet]]></title><author><![CDATA[Alicia Puyana]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/mexican_agriculture_and_nafta</link><description><![CDATA[The structural reforms institutionalized after the debt crisis of early 1980, and the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), forced Mexican agricultural sector to compete with agricultural imports from the United States without any consideration to either the gap in productivity or the large subsidies given to producers ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Note on Agriculture in Russia Today]]></title><author><![CDATA[Yuri Emelianov ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/a_note_on_agriculture_in_russia_today</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Addressing the Global Food Crisis: Causes, Implications, and Policy Options]]></title><author><![CDATA[C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/addressing_the_global_food_crisis</link><description><![CDATA[This paper considers some of the recent trends in global food prices and their possible links to financial speculation, as well as the policy measures required to contain speculation. Recent trends in the price movements of major food commodities in international trade are briefly described, followed by a consideration of the financial deregulation]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Village-Level Birth Records: A Case Study]]></title><author><![CDATA[Jun-ichi Okabe and V. Surjit ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/village_level_birth_records</link><description><![CDATA[This paper clarifies the status of village-level birth records in the Civil Registration System (CRS) by means of a case study in a village panchayat in rural Maharashtra. This present study is a micro-level discrepancy analysis that compares each birth event recorded by the village panchayat with the corresponding person in the database of the Pro]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying
Village Society in India]]></title><author><![CDATA[D. Narasimha Reddy ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/studying_village_society_in_india</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recent
Trends in Wage Rates in Rural India: An Update]]></title><author><![CDATA[Yoshifumi Usami ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/recent_trends_in_wage_rates_in_rural_india</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty and Seasonality in Africa, India and China]]></title><author><![CDATA[Judith Heyer ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/poverty_and_seasonality_in_africa_india_and_china</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has Access to Formal Credit in Rural India? Evidence from Four Villages ]]></title><author><![CDATA[Madhura Swaminathan ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/who_has_access_to_formal_credit_in_rural_india_evidence_from_four_villages</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building China's New Countryside: Multiple Modes of Collective and Cooperative Economy]]></title><author><![CDATA[Enfu Cheng, Xiaoqin Ding/ Translated by Chengyi Peng]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/building_chinas_new_countryside_multiple_modes_of_collective_and_cooperative_economy</link><description><![CDATA[The construction of China's New Countryside requires actions that suit local circumstances. At present, multiple modes of collective and cooperative economy that meet the special conditions of the Chinese countryside play an important role in the construction of the new countryside. Facts from the Chinese countryside show that collective ownership]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land Reform and Rural Livelihood in South Africa: Does Access to Land Matter?]]></title><author><![CDATA[Horman Chitonge and Lungisile Ntsebeza ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/land_reform_and_rural_livelihood_in_south_africa</link><description><![CDATA[This paper presents the main findings of a study conducted in 2009 and 2010 of land redistribution projects in the Chris Hani District Municipality (CHDM), focusing on the question of whether land transferred through the land reform programme in South Africa is making a contribution to improving the livelihoods of beneficiaries. The paper highlights]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The
Registration of Plant Varieties by Farmers in India: A
Status Report]]></title><author><![CDATA[Kaye Lushington ]]></author><link>http://ras.org.in/the_registration_of_plant_varieties_by_farmers_in_india</link><description><![CDATA[As a signatory to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of 1994, India was obliged to enact legislation that brought plant varieties within the general purview of intellectual property. The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmersâ€™ Rights Act, 2001, was enacted in fulfilment of that obligation. This article ]]></description></item></channel></rss>
