Agricultural Diversification and Poverty in India

Digvijay Negi (), Devesh Roy and Pratap Birthal

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Abstract: As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. This is particularly true for small farmers. Growing rural populations and constrained employment opportunities in the nonfarm sector have caused subdivision of landholdings in India to the extent that these cannot provide an adequate livelihood to a majority of farm households. With this view, this study was undertaken to explore options for improving the outcomes of the farmers.

Keywords: diversification; poverty; continuous treatment; binary treatment; unobserved factors; India; Agriculture; Farmers; Social Protection; Food Production; Small Holder; Farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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