Amita Shah
Biographic Data
| ID | 5715069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amita Shah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amita |
| FAMILY NAME | Shah |
| SIGNATURE | SHAH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gujarat Institute of Development Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Priority Changes for Strengthening Women's Role as Producers, Processors and Providers of Food and Nutrition
The mutual dependence between access to food, nutrition and women's agency brings women to the centre stage of the discourse on food justice. The contemporary discourse needs to engage with wide?ranging issues pertaining to the agrarian crisis, feminisation, and new institutional arrangements facing the sector. Prima facie , this would imply changing the priorities right from research and extension, through resource allocation and crop choice, to…
Exploring sustainable production systems for agriculture
Poverty among Tribals in South West Madhya Pradesh
While there is evidence of some positive change as a result of economic development and some of the anti-poverty strategies implemented in India, the overall effect is fairly limited, especially among the poor. Some of the less favoured rural areas have faced deterioration due to a shrinking land base and restricted access to forest resources. The slow pace of economic growth only partly explains the exclusion of certain categories of households,…
Chronic Poverty in India
Land development in India and China
Development of land and water resources through FLCs (Farmland Capital Constructions) has played an important role in raising and sustaining farm productivity, right from the early phase of development in the People's Republic of China. The major driving force for promoting FLCs was utilisation of surplus labour, which formed a major source of capital formation in the rural economy. Compared to this, Soil Water Conservation (SWC) programmes in In…
Natural Resource Management and Gender
This paper examines a watershed project in India which adheres to the fourth type of policy intervention that is within the gender, environment and development perspective. These policy interventions are projects for men and women, jointly, where the objectives are the improvement of the community as a whole or the economic growth of a state. It is noted that the existing approach in watershed development in the country lays special emphasis on v…
Mainstreaming the corporate initiatives in social development
The corporate initiatives in social development in Gujarat indicates that the state with its long drawn traditions in entrepreneurship as well as philanthropic traditions, emanating from both harsh economic conditions as well as close links with religious and national movements, have given rise to a sustained contribution from the industrial/trading community for social development. In the process, it has also shown a definite shift from mainly ‘…
Farmland Capital Construction in China and India
Inter-firm scalar linkage in India
Chronic Poverty in India
Priority Changes for Strengthening Women's Role as Producers, Processors and Providers of Food and Nutrition
The mutual dependence between access to food, nutrition and women's agency brings women to the centre stage of the discourse on food justice. The contemporary discourse needs to engage with wide?ranging issues pertaining to the agrarian crisis, feminisation, and new institutional arrangements facing the sector. Prima facie , this would imply changing the priorities right from research and extension, through resource allocation and crop choice, to…
Inter-firm scalar linkage in India
Natural Resource Management and Gender
This paper examines a watershed project in India which adheres to the fourth type of policy intervention that is within the gender, environment and development perspective. These policy interventions are projects for men and women, jointly, where the objectives are the improvement of the community as a whole or the economic growth of a state. It is noted that the existing approach in watershed development in the country lays special emphasis on v…
Mainstreaming the corporate initiatives in social development
The corporate initiatives in social development in Gujarat indicates that the state with its long drawn traditions in entrepreneurship as well as philanthropic traditions, emanating from both harsh economic conditions as well as close links with religious and national movements, have given rise to a sustained contribution from the industrial/trading community for social development. In the process, it has also shown a definite shift from mainly ‘…
Farmland Capital Construction in China and India
Land development in India and China
Development of land and water resources through FLCs (Farmland Capital Constructions) has played an important role in raising and sustaining farm productivity, right from the early phase of development in the People's Republic of China. The major driving force for promoting FLCs was utilisation of surplus labour, which formed a major source of capital formation in the rural economy. Compared to this, Soil Water Conservation (SWC) programmes in In…
Chronic Poverty in India
Poverty among Tribals in South West Madhya Pradesh
While there is evidence of some positive change as a result of economic development and some of the anti-poverty strategies implemented in India, the overall effect is fairly limited, especially among the poor. Some of the less favoured rural areas have faced deterioration due to a shrinking land base and restricted access to forest resources. The slow pace of economic growth only partly explains the exclusion of certain categories of households,…
Exploring sustainable production systems for agriculture
Priority Changes for Strengthening Women's Role as Producers, Processors and Providers of Food and Nutrition
The mutual dependence between access to food, nutrition and women's agency brings women to the centre stage of the discourse on food justice. The contemporary discourse needs to engage with wide?ranging issues pertaining to the agrarian crisis, feminisation, and new institutional arrangements facing the sector. Prima facie , this would imply changing the priorities right from research and extension, through resource allocation and crop choice, to…
Economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works)