Water–food–energy nexus with changing agricultural scenarios in India during recent decades

The Changing Pattern and Sources of Agricultural Growth in India

1. INTRODUCTION The Indian economy has moved decisively to a higher path of growth in recent years, making it one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The rate of economic growth measured in real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) (1999-2000 prices) averaged less than 5% per year during the 1980s and 1990s, increasing to more than 7% per year during the period 2003-07 (Planning C...

Climatic Warming in the Tibetan Plateau during Recent Decades

Adequate knowledge of climatic change over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) with an average elevation of more than 4000 m above sea level (a.s.l.) has been insufficient for a long time owing to the lack of sufficient observational data. In the present study, monthly surface air temperature data were collected from almost every meteorological station on the TP since their establishment. There are 97 sta...

The relation between the number of sunspots and fluctuation in the trend of climatic components in Iran during recent decades

This analysis was conducted on 31 synoptic stations in Iran. Initially, the Mann-Kendall test was administered in order to analyse the trend of alterations of these two components over time and the results suggest that 16% of the stations show significant relationship with annual precipitation (positive and negative). More stations showed significant relationships between sunspots and minimum a...

Tuberculosis among health care workers during three recent decades.

Some studies have found that health care workers have an increased risk of tuberculosis, whereas other studies have reported the opposite. This study examined data of Finnish health care workers (HCWs) for the incidence of tuberculosis disease. Cases of occupational tuberculosis in Finland were analysed over a period of 30 yrs (1966-1995). Control subjects were all other incident tuberculosis c...

Agricultural groundwater management in the Upper Bhima Basin , India : current status and future scenarios