There is an immediate need to step up the flow of credit to agricultural and other rural activities in India for improving rural productivity and economic welfare. In this context, we propose an ICT-based solution for improving the delivery of credit and other services to the rural areas through unbundling and outsourcing of the rural banking operations. The solution involves setting up of a co...

Agricultural and the rural landscape have undergone significant and wide-ranging changes in demographics, economics, land uses, and spatial land use relationships. This section explores a methodology to examine the spatial relationship, and resulting potential for conflict, of two changes in particular: • consolidation of animal agricultural facilities into larger operating units as a response ...

Labour migration is a pervasive feature of economic development. People mobility for temporary or permanent labour purposes is a routine part of agricultural activity. There are very significant migration flows in some developing areas, with considerable impacts on individuals, households and regions at origin. Despite the growing debate about motivations and impacts of recent migration flows, ...

This paper examines the direct, first-rounds impact of two types of remittances—internal and external remittances—on income distribution and asset accumulation in rural Pakistan. Using income decomposition techniques on a threeyear panel household data set, the paper finds that internal remittances have a positive effect on equity and that external remittances have a negative effect. The study ...

Since the radical economic reforms initiated in the late 1970s, China, has been transformed from a stagnating socialist country into one of the world’s biggest economies. However, the ―invisible hand‖ of capitalism may not have succeeded in its magic without the 200 million workers who migrated from rural areas to the urbanized east coast. What are the implications of rural-to-urban migration o...

Rosemary P. Collins1,*, Áslaug Helgadóttir2, Bodil E. Frankow-Lindberg3, Leif Skøt1, Charlotte Jones1 and Kirsten P. Skøt1 Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth SY23 3EB, UK, Agricultural University of Iceland, Keldnaholti, 112 Reykjavı́k, Iceland and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Productio...

Protein Expression of the Human Norovirus Capsid Gene using the Baculovirus Expression System Ji-Young Jin1, Chul Jong Park2, Seung-Won Park and Soon-Young Paik* Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University, Seoul; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University, Seoul; Department of Agricultural Biology, National Academy of Agricultural Scien...

Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Knowledge and Institutions (SASKI) is a thematic group that promotes sustainable agricultural production, processing and marketing systems through gender-responsive knowledge institutions within the Rural Development Family of the World Bank. Agriculture is defined to include crop, livestock and aquaculture. iii Contents

Surplus labor force and migration trends in China are examined, with emphasis on the impact of underemployment in rural areas. "Government policy encourages surplus labourers to transfer out of crop farming into agricultural sidelines or non-agricultural work. Peasants are urged to stay where they are, shifting jobs without shifting location; however, many rural areas are poorly endowed for pr...