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Making the most of Indian millets: Lessons from the International Year of Quinoa

In the fourth post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Pallavi Agrawal reflects on the success story of quinoa, and how the International Year of Qui...

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Mainstreaming millets right: Dangers of promoting ultra-processed products

In the fifth post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Reshma Roshania argues that instead of relying on the ‘Big Food’ industry to increase the produ...

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Going beyond the International Year of Millets to achieve decade-long action

In the third post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Ashwini Kulkarni considers how the increased focus on millets during this year is just the begi...

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Farm to fork: An overview of millet supply chains in India

In the second post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Kumar, Das and Jat discuss the potential to increase cultivation of millets, and outline some ...

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India’s millets consumption and trade over the last three decades

In the first post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Manan Bhan introduces the concept of ‘embodied land area’, which accounts for land use at the p...

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भारत की फसलों पर जलवायु परिवर्तन का प्रभाव

हर साल, 16 अक्तूबर को विश्व खाद्य दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है। इसी दिन वर्ष 1945 में संयुक्त राष्ट्र के खाद्य एवं कृषि संगठन की स्थापना हुई थी। इसे मनाने का उद्देश्य वैश्विक भुखमरी से निपटना और उसे ...

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Introduction to e-Symposium: Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets

Although millets were a staple food in many Indian diets, their consumption has declined over the last few decades. Taking into account their resilience to climate change and potential to contribute t...

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Impact of fiscal decentralisation and ethnic heterogeneity on choice of local polity

In this article, based on Chapter 7 of 'Decentralised Governance’, Mitra and Pal utilise Indonesia’s fiscal decentralisation to local communities in 2001 to examine how FD may differentially affect th...

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Home-based learning through low-cost mobile teaching: Findings from Odisha

Evaluating the effectiveness of a low-cost Home-Based Learning programme implemented during the Covid-19 school closures in Odisha, this article finds that it improved the mathematics and language lea...

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मासिक धर्म सम्बन्धी स्वास्थ्य को कल्याणकारी प्राथमिकता देना : तीन राज्यों से प्राप्त अंतर्दृष्टि

अक्तूबर 11 पूरी दुनिया में अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय बालिका दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है। इस दिवस को मनाने का मुख्य उद्देश्य है देशों, समुदायों और समाजों को बालिकाओं के महत्त्व के बारे में याद दिलाना और उन्हें...

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The ‘invisible’ disability of mental illness: Barriers to social security access

Sakshi Sharda writes about the how a lack of clarity on the assessment and diagnosis of mental health and poor implementation of social security schemes increases the vulnerability of those livings wi...

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वर्ग और जाति किस प्रकार से स्कूल के चुनाव को प्रभावित करते हैं

माता-पिता द्वारा अपने बच्चों की शिक्षा के सम्बन्ध में लिए जाने वाले निर्णयों पर परिवार की सामाजिक-आर्थिक स्थिति प्रभाव डालती है। जाति और वर्ग की परस्पर-क्रिया को ध्यान में रखते हुए, यह लेख दर्शाता है ...

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