Kishor Goswami
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kishor Goswami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kishor |
| FAMILY NAME | Goswami |
| SIGNATURE | GOSWAMI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9489-6826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The hidden costs of livelihood
We examine the relationship between occupational hazards, health expenditure, and livelihood vulnerability among slum dwellers in West Bengal, India. Using primary survey data collected from 560 primary earners residing in slum settlements across four industrialised districts of the state, we analyse both industrial and non-industrial occupations. Catastrophic health expenditure is measured using the standard capacity-to-pay approach, and its det…
Multilevel drivers of smallholder farmers' coping strategies to climate variability
Farmers use short-term responses, called coping strategies, to address the immediate threats of climate change while maintaining their livelihoods. This study pursues two objectives: to identify the different coping strategies adopted by smallholder farmers, and to determine how factors at the micro, meso , and macro levels influence their coping decisions. We employ a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression model as our empirical approach a…
Indigenous entrepreneurship and agricultural development
Indigenous entrepreneurship has emerged as a new area of research in the domain of entrepreneurship. Indigenous entrepreneurship is deemed to be essential to address the developmental needs of the millions of Indigenous people who have been disadvantaged and marginalized throughout history. However, there is limited empirical work offering an in-depth understanding of how Indigenous entrepreneurship in a region evolves and how it promotes agricul…
From value chain to value networks
Technical efficiency of rice in community-managed natural farming vs. conventional farming in Andhra Pradesh, India
This study compared the technical efficiency of natural farming (NF) and conventional farming (CF) using 23 variables across structural, functional, sociological, and agronomic indicators. A total of 1,000 farmers (500 NF and 500 CF) were selected through multistage sampling and interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reduced multicollinearity among variables, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) using t…
Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are often seen as an opportunity to promote sustainability among small-scale farmers. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater realisation to explore more about AFNs due to the noticeable shortcomings of the globalised agri-food systems. However, understandings of AFNs from developing countries and in the context of highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems are limited. In this study, we seek to explor…
Understanding the patterns of agrarian transformation
This paper examines the significant agrarian transformations in India’s Himalayan region of Kashmir, which is witnessing a rapid transition into commercial farming and, simultaneously, an increasing trend of deagrarianisation. The study uses a mixed-method approach to investigate why farmers adopt commercial farming in this region and how the processes of deagrarianisation, reconfiguration of land use, and deepening commodification have become in…
What will drive the small tea growers towards environment-friendly cultivation? Implications from the tea sector in Assam, India
The small tea growers (STGs), a considerable part of the tea industry, contribute significantly to the rural economy in tea-producing countries. As tea cultivation has become a high-input high-output system, it raises concerns for the sustainability of the STGs, and thus to sustainable tea production and overall agricultural sustainability. There is a need to encourage the STGs to uptake environment-friendly cultivation to fight against challenge…
Biofuels versus food
Self-employed or Paid Employed
Past literature in the context of slum dwellers rarely acknowledges the occupational variation in informal job types. The dearth of studies also exists in specifying the informal types where public policy can result in their improved livelihoods. Based on 240 respondents settled in the slums of four districts of West Bengal, it analyses the types of informal employment in offsetting poverty of the slum dwellers. The participation of only 27 perce…
Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship
This paper attempts to develop a few measures or scales of entrepreneurial motives of women, given the socio-cultural factors in developing economies. Within the push–pull theory of entrepreneurial motivation, we use exploratory factor analysis with an orthogonal varimax rotation technique to examine entrepreneurial motivation, integrating it with socio-cultural beliefs. We identify five entrepreneurial motives—self-dependence, preserving handloo…
Do home-based micro-entrepreneurial earnings empower rural women? Evidence from the handloom sector in Assam
Access to income through home-based activities is important for empowering disadvantaged groups of society, especially women. The present paper seeks to analyze the extent of empowerment of women engaged in the handloom sector in Assam in North Eastern India. Our study refines five empowerment indicators of economic, social, and cultural relevance, such as decision-making ability, freedom of movement, ownership of assets and income, male preferen…
Determinants of expansion of area under jatropha plantation in North East India
Factors influencing farmers' adoption of slash and burn agriculture in North East India
Determinants of expansion of area under jatropha plantation in North East India
Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship
This paper attempts to develop a few measures or scales of entrepreneurial motives of women, given the socio-cultural factors in developing economies. Within the push–pull theory of entrepreneurial motivation, we use exploratory factor analysis with an orthogonal varimax rotation technique to examine entrepreneurial motivation, integrating it with socio-cultural beliefs. We identify five entrepreneurial motives—self-dependence, preserving handloo…
Do home-based micro-entrepreneurial earnings empower rural women? Evidence from the handloom sector in Assam
Access to income through home-based activities is important for empowering disadvantaged groups of society, especially women. The present paper seeks to analyze the extent of empowerment of women engaged in the handloom sector in Assam in North Eastern India. Our study refines five empowerment indicators of economic, social, and cultural relevance, such as decision-making ability, freedom of movement, ownership of assets and income, male preferen…
Self-employed or Paid Employed
Past literature in the context of slum dwellers rarely acknowledges the occupational variation in informal job types. The dearth of studies also exists in specifying the informal types where public policy can result in their improved livelihoods. Based on 240 respondents settled in the slums of four districts of West Bengal, it analyses the types of informal employment in offsetting poverty of the slum dwellers. The participation of only 27 perce…
Factors influencing farmers' adoption of slash and burn agriculture in North East India
Determinants of expansion of area under jatropha plantation in North East India
Do home-based micro-entrepreneurial earnings empower rural women? Evidence from the handloom sector in Assam
Access to income through home-based activities is important for empowering disadvantaged groups of society, especially women. The present paper seeks to analyze the extent of empowerment of women engaged in the handloom sector in Assam in North Eastern India. Our study refines five empowerment indicators of economic, social, and cultural relevance, such as decision-making ability, freedom of movement, ownership of assets and income, male preferen…
Biofuels versus food
Self-employed or Paid Employed
Past literature in the context of slum dwellers rarely acknowledges the occupational variation in informal job types. The dearth of studies also exists in specifying the informal types where public policy can result in their improved livelihoods. Based on 240 respondents settled in the slums of four districts of West Bengal, it analyses the types of informal employment in offsetting poverty of the slum dwellers. The participation of only 27 perce…
Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship
This paper attempts to develop a few measures or scales of entrepreneurial motives of women, given the socio-cultural factors in developing economies. Within the push–pull theory of entrepreneurial motivation, we use exploratory factor analysis with an orthogonal varimax rotation technique to examine entrepreneurial motivation, integrating it with socio-cultural beliefs. We identify five entrepreneurial motives—self-dependence, preserving handloo…
What will drive the small tea growers towards environment-friendly cultivation? Implications from the tea sector in Assam, India
The small tea growers (STGs), a considerable part of the tea industry, contribute significantly to the rural economy in tea-producing countries. As tea cultivation has become a high-input high-output system, it raises concerns for the sustainability of the STGs, and thus to sustainable tea production and overall agricultural sustainability. There is a need to encourage the STGs to uptake environment-friendly cultivation to fight against challenge…
Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are often seen as an opportunity to promote sustainability among small-scale farmers. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater realisation to explore more about AFNs due to the noticeable shortcomings of the globalised agri-food systems. However, understandings of AFNs from developing countries and in the context of highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems are limited. In this study, we seek to explor…
Understanding the patterns of agrarian transformation
This paper examines the significant agrarian transformations in India’s Himalayan region of Kashmir, which is witnessing a rapid transition into commercial farming and, simultaneously, an increasing trend of deagrarianisation. The study uses a mixed-method approach to investigate why farmers adopt commercial farming in this region and how the processes of deagrarianisation, reconfiguration of land use, and deepening commodification have become in…
Indigenous entrepreneurship and agricultural development
Indigenous entrepreneurship has emerged as a new area of research in the domain of entrepreneurship. Indigenous entrepreneurship is deemed to be essential to address the developmental needs of the millions of Indigenous people who have been disadvantaged and marginalized throughout history. However, there is limited empirical work offering an in-depth understanding of how Indigenous entrepreneurship in a region evolves and how it promotes agricul…
From value chain to value networks
Technical efficiency of rice in community-managed natural farming vs. conventional farming in Andhra Pradesh, India
This study compared the technical efficiency of natural farming (NF) and conventional farming (CF) using 23 variables across structural, functional, sociological, and agronomic indicators. A total of 1,000 farmers (500 NF and 500 CF) were selected through multistage sampling and interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reduced multicollinearity among variables, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) using t…
The hidden costs of livelihood
We examine the relationship between occupational hazards, health expenditure, and livelihood vulnerability among slum dwellers in West Bengal, India. Using primary survey data collected from 560 primary earners residing in slum settlements across four industrialised districts of the state, we analyse both industrial and non-industrial occupations. Catastrophic health expenditure is measured using the standard capacity-to-pay approach, and its det…
Multilevel drivers of smallholder farmers' coping strategies to climate variability
Farmers use short-term responses, called coping strategies, to address the immediate threats of climate change while maintaining their livelihoods. This study pursues two objectives: to identify the different coping strategies adopted by smallholder farmers, and to determine how factors at the micro, meso , and macro levels influence their coping decisions. We employ a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression model as our empirical approach a…
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