Sukhpal Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukhpal Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukhpal |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1380-2830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Agriculture and Rural in the Union Budget
Unions budget is an annual exercise, but it gives a sense of direction of policy in terms of emphasizing or moving away from certain schemes and programs especially in a sector like agriculture as it is so varied across India and faces many challenges from sustainability perspective. More recently, the agricultural sector has performed better than in the past in terms of growth rate. This article examines the allocations of the Union Budget 2026-…
Efficiency analysis of elementary education development in an eastern state of India
Odisha exhibits notable disparities in educational access and outcomes across various districts, including both KBK and non-KBK regions. It is crucial to assess how efficiently the study area utilises educational resources and influences policy development to close regional gaps in school performance. Therefore, to achieve this aim, the present study analyses elementary education in Odisha, focusing on dropout rates, gender disparities, and regio…
The Philippine Development Crisis
The main aim of this special issue introduction is to develop the conceptual framework to contextualize the contributions and develop the idea why some countries like Philippines fall into the middle-income trap and why others are able to pass through the trap. The six articles presented in this issue are novel and unravel factors such as corruption, agriculture, education, labour market, technological progress and R&D policies that inhibit the s…
(Wl-7286)-Broiler Contracting in Punjab
The persistence of agrarian crises and failure of crop diversification policies in Green Revolution regions of India such as Punjab necessitate exploring role of allied agricultural sectors such as livestock for small farmer livelihood generation. Through a comprehensive analysis of broiler contract farming in Punjab, it is observed that though broiler contract farming was inclusive, as growers were less resourceful, less literate and less-experi…
Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development
Millets for sustainable development in India
Political Mobilization of Farmers in India
Growing agrarian contradictions and peasant protests globally are seen as outcomes of the commercialization of agricultural production systems. The Indian Punjab is one such site that has also witnessed a high degree of agricultural commercialization, and farmers’ movements and protests are attributed to growing discontentment among peasantry due to the emergence of agrarian crises. This has led to massive farmers’ movements and protests through …
Trade and Development in Asia
(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives
One of the innovative alternatives to the traditional cooperative structure has been the new generation cooperatives or cooperative companies, known as producer companies (PCs) in India since the early 2000s. This paper examines the impact of PCs on the member farmer livelihoods, which is not well studied, with the help of member and non‐member farmer interview survey in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is found that though the PCs were inclus…
Questioning the poverty line aggregation approach in India
The Rangarajan Expert Group (REG), an official constituted panel of experts, decided to extend the traditional practice of food component‐based poverty line to three components (food, essential nonfood, and other nonfood) based poverty line. Although this multiple component‐based poverty identification is an innovative step; the present study questions the justification for combining the food and nonfood dimensions and estimating poverty just by …
(Small) Farmer Livelihoods under Liberalised Agricultural Market Environment in India
This article examines the rationale and experience of Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) in the context of their promotion and public funding on a large scale. Simultaneously, corporate players have been provided a larger and free space under the APLM and CF&S Acts of 2017 and 2018, respectively. At the state level, the agricultural market reforms started with the model APMC Act of 2003, and the Producer Companies Act was passed in 2002. India is t…
Role of Contract Farming in Crop Diversification and Employment Generation
Linking small farmers with modern agri-business firms through contract farming is viewed as one of the several ways to achieve crop diversification and enhance farmers’ income, besides bringing spill-over effects of such interventions for other local stakeholders like farm workers. This article examines the role of contract farming in crop diversification and employment generation in the context of Indian Punjab. Based on a sample of 50 contract …
Agrarian Crisis and Agricultural Market Reforms in South Asia
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains
The Better Cotton Imitative (BCI), the world's largest multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) for sustainable cotton production, is a prime example of a hybrid “cooperation-compliance” model used by some MSIs to engage farmers and on-farm workers in the global South. Using a mixed methods approach, we investigate the impacts of this hybrid model on economic, environmental, and labor conditions of farmers and on-farm workers on irrigated cotton farms …
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India
In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We conceptualize how the key roles of regulatory intermediaries - translating and verifying compliance with abstract rules in ways that make these rules practical and intelligible for target audiences (in this case, cotton farmers) - m…
Covid-19 Pandemic
Asia’s Development Experience in the Twenty-first Century
Examining Global Competitiveness of Indian Agribusiness in the Twenty-first-century Asian Context
Indian agribusiness is being seen as an important arena for creation of employment and income for large sections of India’s rural and agrarian population in the coming years and decades by public agencies, nationally and globally. This is happening in the context of strong agribusiness sectors in the neighbouring countries of China and those in the South-East and East Asia. This article examines the global context of agribusiness competitiveness …
The Export Value Chain of Baby Corn in India
It is important to understand the implications of participation in global value chains (GVCs) in horticulture for farmer and worker upgrading/downgrading. This article examines the functioning and dynamics of supermarket driven GVCs in a high-value export crop, baby corn, to understand the significance of standards in farms and pack houses in India. It explores patterns of governance, smallholder inclusion, economic and social upgrading, or lack …
Indian Economic Development under Globalization
Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights in Asia
Seeking Markets in Production Fields
Fair trade is one of the important alternative sustainable production and trade movements which has been able to sustain and spread across regions over time. After making a large presence in developed country markets for the products of developing world producers, more recently, it has begun marketing and selling its products in emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa, Kenya and India, which were hitherto only producers, and sales are rep…
South Asian Agrifood Trade Networks in India
South Asia has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions of the world while global agricultural trade has expanded since its inclusion into the WTO framework, especially for developing agrarian economies such as India, which are expanding as suppliers of agricultural products to various markets. Within South Asia, agriculture still remains crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction. Though the relative contribution of agriculture has co…
Fresh Food Supermarkets in India
Linking primary producers with modern markets through corporate agribusiness, especially food supermarkets, is being seen as one of the ways to improve rural livelihoods. But, given smallholder dominance of farming in India, it is important to consider the implications of corporate linkage for smaller links involved/proposed to be involved in the chains i.e. primary producers, so that the process is not exclusionary in nature, and becomes a win-w…
Changing structure and organisation of agriculture and small farmers in India
Since most farm operators have been small and marginal farmers in India, growth in the sector was mainly determined by the role of the state-both in capital financing as well as the incentive structures created. Now, however, there is distress among small and marginal farmers, both in agriculturally advanced as well as backward regions, as manifested in farmer suicides. The viability of small holdings is an important issue and promoting agricultu…
Contracting Out Solutions
Examining Global Competitiveness of Indian Agribusiness in the Twenty-first-century Asian Context
Indian agribusiness is being seen as an important arena for creation of employment and income for large sections of India’s rural and agrarian population in the coming years and decades by public agencies, nationally and globally. This is happening in the context of strong agribusiness sectors in the neighbouring countries of China and those in the South-East and East Asia. This article examines the global context of agribusiness competitiveness …
(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives
One of the innovative alternatives to the traditional cooperative structure has been the new generation cooperatives or cooperative companies, known as producer companies (PCs) in India since the early 2000s. This paper examines the impact of PCs on the member farmer livelihoods, which is not well studied, with the help of member and non‐member farmer interview survey in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is found that though the PCs were inclus…
Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights in Asia
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains
The Better Cotton Imitative (BCI), the world's largest multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) for sustainable cotton production, is a prime example of a hybrid “cooperation-compliance” model used by some MSIs to engage farmers and on-farm workers in the global South. Using a mixed methods approach, we investigate the impacts of this hybrid model on economic, environmental, and labor conditions of farmers and on-farm workers on irrigated cotton farms …
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India
In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We conceptualize how the key roles of regulatory intermediaries - translating and verifying compliance with abstract rules in ways that make these rules practical and intelligible for target audiences (in this case, cotton farmers) - m…
Indian Economic Development under Globalization
South Asian Agrifood Trade Networks in India
South Asia has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions of the world while global agricultural trade has expanded since its inclusion into the WTO framework, especially for developing agrarian economies such as India, which are expanding as suppliers of agricultural products to various markets. Within South Asia, agriculture still remains crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction. Though the relative contribution of agriculture has co…
Food Security and Sustainability under Internationalization of Agriculture
Contracting Out Solutions
Changing structure and organisation of agriculture and small farmers in India
Since most farm operators have been small and marginal farmers in India, growth in the sector was mainly determined by the role of the state-both in capital financing as well as the incentive structures created. Now, however, there is distress among small and marginal farmers, both in agriculturally advanced as well as backward regions, as manifested in farmer suicides. The viability of small holdings is an important issue and promoting agricultu…
Fresh Food Supermarkets in India
Linking primary producers with modern markets through corporate agribusiness, especially food supermarkets, is being seen as one of the ways to improve rural livelihoods. But, given smallholder dominance of farming in India, it is important to consider the implications of corporate linkage for smaller links involved/proposed to be involved in the chains i.e. primary producers, so that the process is not exclusionary in nature, and becomes a win-w…
South Asian Agrifood Trade Networks in India
South Asia has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions of the world while global agricultural trade has expanded since its inclusion into the WTO framework, especially for developing agrarian economies such as India, which are expanding as suppliers of agricultural products to various markets. Within South Asia, agriculture still remains crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction. Though the relative contribution of agriculture has co…
Seeking Markets in Production Fields
Fair trade is one of the important alternative sustainable production and trade movements which has been able to sustain and spread across regions over time. After making a large presence in developed country markets for the products of developing world producers, more recently, it has begun marketing and selling its products in emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa, Kenya and India, which were hitherto only producers, and sales are rep…
Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights in Asia
Indian Economic Development under Globalization
Asia’s Development Experience in the Twenty-first Century
Examining Global Competitiveness of Indian Agribusiness in the Twenty-first-century Asian Context
Indian agribusiness is being seen as an important arena for creation of employment and income for large sections of India’s rural and agrarian population in the coming years and decades by public agencies, nationally and globally. This is happening in the context of strong agribusiness sectors in the neighbouring countries of China and those in the South-East and East Asia. This article examines the global context of agribusiness competitiveness …
The Export Value Chain of Baby Corn in India
It is important to understand the implications of participation in global value chains (GVCs) in horticulture for farmer and worker upgrading/downgrading. This article examines the functioning and dynamics of supermarket driven GVCs in a high-value export crop, baby corn, to understand the significance of standards in farms and pack houses in India. It explores patterns of governance, smallholder inclusion, economic and social upgrading, or lack …
Covid-19 Pandemic
Role of Contract Farming in Crop Diversification and Employment Generation
Linking small farmers with modern agri-business firms through contract farming is viewed as one of the several ways to achieve crop diversification and enhance farmers’ income, besides bringing spill-over effects of such interventions for other local stakeholders like farm workers. This article examines the role of contract farming in crop diversification and employment generation in the context of Indian Punjab. Based on a sample of 50 contract …
Agrarian Crisis and Agricultural Market Reforms in South Asia
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains
The Better Cotton Imitative (BCI), the world's largest multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) for sustainable cotton production, is a prime example of a hybrid “cooperation-compliance” model used by some MSIs to engage farmers and on-farm workers in the global South. Using a mixed methods approach, we investigate the impacts of this hybrid model on economic, environmental, and labor conditions of farmers and on-farm workers on irrigated cotton farms …
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India
In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We conceptualize how the key roles of regulatory intermediaries - translating and verifying compliance with abstract rules in ways that make these rules practical and intelligible for target audiences (in this case, cotton farmers) - m…
Questioning the poverty line aggregation approach in India
The Rangarajan Expert Group (REG), an official constituted panel of experts, decided to extend the traditional practice of food component‐based poverty line to three components (food, essential nonfood, and other nonfood) based poverty line. Although this multiple component‐based poverty identification is an innovative step; the present study questions the justification for combining the food and nonfood dimensions and estimating poverty just by …
(Small) Farmer Livelihoods under Liberalised Agricultural Market Environment in India
This article examines the rationale and experience of Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) in the context of their promotion and public funding on a large scale. Simultaneously, corporate players have been provided a larger and free space under the APLM and CF&S Acts of 2017 and 2018, respectively. At the state level, the agricultural market reforms started with the model APMC Act of 2003, and the Producer Companies Act was passed in 2002. India is t…
Trade and Development in Asia
(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives
One of the innovative alternatives to the traditional cooperative structure has been the new generation cooperatives or cooperative companies, known as producer companies (PCs) in India since the early 2000s. This paper examines the impact of PCs on the member farmer livelihoods, which is not well studied, with the help of member and non‐member farmer interview survey in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is found that though the PCs were inclus…
Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development
Millets for sustainable development in India
Political Mobilization of Farmers in India
Growing agrarian contradictions and peasant protests globally are seen as outcomes of the commercialization of agricultural production systems. The Indian Punjab is one such site that has also witnessed a high degree of agricultural commercialization, and farmers’ movements and protests are attributed to growing discontentment among peasantry due to the emergence of agrarian crises. This has led to massive farmers’ movements and protests through …
The Philippine Development Crisis
The main aim of this special issue introduction is to develop the conceptual framework to contextualize the contributions and develop the idea why some countries like Philippines fall into the middle-income trap and why others are able to pass through the trap. The six articles presented in this issue are novel and unravel factors such as corruption, agriculture, education, labour market, technological progress and R&D policies that inhibit the s…
(Wl-7286)-Broiler Contracting in Punjab
The persistence of agrarian crises and failure of crop diversification policies in Green Revolution regions of India such as Punjab necessitate exploring role of allied agricultural sectors such as livestock for small farmer livelihood generation. Through a comprehensive analysis of broiler contract farming in Punjab, it is observed that though broiler contract farming was inclusive, as growers were less resourceful, less literate and less-experi…
Economics (22 works) · Agriculture (15 works) · Business (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Agricultural economics (10 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (10 works) · Agricultural Economics and Practices (9 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (7 works)