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Soil Economics - The "Science" in the economics

We feature a collaborative blogpost by our Research Associates,  Nikita Taniparti and Suraj Nair. The Earth is covered with soil: soil on...

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Dr. Andre Butler on climate change and poverty

Dr Andre Butler is a Research Fellow at IFMR LEAD. We spoke with him about climate change and it's link with poverty. Here's an ex...

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The Other Tragedy at Uttarakhand

The  Uttarakhand floods  is the worst hit disaster that all of us know of! Unfortunately, we only know what media shows us- Modi Vs ...

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Farm Credit in Pakistan: Benefiting Farmer segments

While reading up on Agricultural Credit, came across this interesting paper on farm credit in Pakistan, our neighbour. What was interestin...

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Lest We Forget

To my mind, the biggest challenge of social science research using survey data is reconciling the rigours of mathematical analysis with the...

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Understanding Agricultural Credit and Financing

Its been a while since I have written a post here and last time I wrote - it was on the savings theme - a whole month of reading, talking...

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HiH Self-Help Group Training - Dreaming Big!!

CMF Picture: HIH Trainer explaining the rules of the game I recently attended a self-help group (SHG) training session organised by Ha...

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To Commit or not to Commit: Perspectives from a Research Paper

As part of the savings month, we at CMF have also been reading and discussing various academic papers. Last week, I happen to lead the dis...

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What was the “Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief” Scheme about?

Photo Credit:  http://www.aegindia.org According to Malcolm Harper, “the loan waiver scheme is an expensive, populist device that w...

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Agricultural Financing - Potential for Innovations ?

Quite often, I come across this from some of my city-based friends, "Someday I would like to retire and get settled in a village and ...

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A better harvest for Indian farmers - just a phone call away?

Author: Tanaya Devi A new CMF study explores the potential of a new mobile agricultural extension service to improve farming techniqu...

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