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Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management" that was published in Water
Agronomy for Development
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Knowledge politics in development-oriented agronomy -- 2 On the movement of agricultural technologies: packaging, unpacking and situated reconfiguration -- 3 South-South cooperation and agribusiness contestations in irrigated rice: China and Brazil in Ghana -- 4 GM crops 'for Africa': contestation and knowledge politics in the Kenyan biosafety debate -- 5 Systems research in the CGIAR as an arena of struggle: competing discourses on the embedding of research in development -- 6 One step forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: 'scaling up' as Fordist replication in drag -- 7 When the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of agricultural extension in Uganda -- 8 Sweet 'success': contesting biofortification strategies to address malnutrition in Tanzania -- 9 Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal seed institutions -- 10 Laws of the field: rights and justice in development-oriented agronomy -- 11 A golden age for agronomy? -- References -- Index
Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India
This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers new insights into the complex realities of India today, thereby enabling us to anticipate the decades to come. The editors focus on three major themes, each discussed in a section: The first section, Framing the Macro-Economic Environment, defines the framework for interrogating globalisation and socio-economic changes in India over the last few decades of the 20th century spiraling into India in the 21st century. The next sec...
SMITSONIAN '15
The anuual magazine of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majhitar.
SUBTLE AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN BEINGS
The following issues have been discussed in the book ‘Subtle and physical aspects of human beings’. Attributes of prana that keeps the human body alive. Integration of human subtle and physical existence. The power, weaknesses and trainability of the ‘mind’. Importance of mental laws in human life How thoughts influence individual’s life. Breathing phenomenon in totality. State of mind and its effect on breathing. What ‘pranayama’ really is and what are its benefits Significance of emotions in human life. Addressing of ‘mind’ stressed out of an emotional attack.
Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2017, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2017. The 40 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The papers were grouped into various subtopics including arti ficial intelligence, machine learning, image processing, pattern recognition, speech processing, information retrieval, natural language processing, social network analysis, security, and fuzzy rough sets.
Attitude can be Changed
Attitude is an excellent focal point of attention which gives direct insight into human thoughts, beliefs, and emotions in each moment. It basically is a mental mechanism and is secretly working for twenty four hours within every individual and has the potential to take him either forward or backward depending on whether he has positive or negative attitude. At any stage of life, if any person comes to know that he has a poor attitude he need not worry; attitude can always be changed for better. The changing of attitude however warrants awareness of various faces of mind, mind powers and how the mind works. Keeping the above in view, the self help book “ATTITUDE CAN BE CHANGED” has been ...
Kill it to Green it
To what extent can you go to save your planet from global warming, save something for generations to come? The planet is burning and an Indian has decided to take actions about it. However, where does he start? He decides to start with the facilitators, who are milking away money by killing our planet. So, the police force are up against a serial killer who is killing all the high-profile entrepreneurs whose industries are polluting India, and on the bigger picture, the world. The police nicknames him as the Green man, based on his love for a greener planet. Parallelly, this story is also about Akash Bose, an I it I an who left his highly paid Office job to pursue his dreams of being a priva...
Women in Agriculture Worldwide
Over the past two decades, existing documentation of women in the agricultural sector has surveyed topics such as agricultural restructuring and land reform, international trade agreements and food trade, land ownership and rural development and rural feminisms. Many studies have focused on either the high-income countries of the global North or the low-income countries of the global South. This separation suggests that the North has little to learn from the South, or that there is little shared commonality across the global dividing line. Fletcher and Kubik cross this political, economic, and ideological division by drawing together authors from 5 continents. They discuss the situation for ...
