Commercial and Legal Sustainability of Contract Farming in Gujarat

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-158
Author(s):  
Satya Ranjan Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Indian States ◽  
The World ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Development Goals

The chapter discusses that there is a strong need to formalize agriculture and make farmers a beneficiary of the end market opportunities. Contract farming attempts to bring in possibilities of organizing the agricultural sector by carving commercial, financial, and technological partnerships with farmers in the commodity value chain. Contract farming has been introduced in the Indian states following the enactment of the model APMC Act of 2005.The success of contract farming with commercial exuberance and regulatory safeguards will help realize the dream of the Millennium Development Goals of reducing the world poverty by half. This chapter attempts to find the success and sustainability of formal agriculture over informal agriculture through empirically evident parameters and it critically examines the present regulatory framework’s efficacy to safeguard the interest of the most prominent actor in the commodity value chain—the farmer.

scholarly journals La educación moral ante el reto de la pobreza

10.14201/3039 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Escámez Sánchez ◽  
Rafaela García López ◽  
Cruz Pérez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The World ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Heads Of State

RESUMEN: El artículo trata de la pobreza en el mundo, especialmente de la pobreza severa, y el reto que presenta a la educación moral. En la actualidad, el problema de la pobreza es abordado en el contexto del desarrollo humano; así se hace en el artículo, pero manteniendo la pobreza como centro de análisis y propuestas pedagógicas. Se parte de la situación de la pobreza al año 2003, de la Declaración del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas del año 2000, consensuada por 189 jefes de Estado o Gobierno, para erradicar la pobreza severa. Se hace una valoración ética de tales acontecimientos y se exponen los compromisos que ha de asumir la educación moral ante ellos. Se expone el papel central de las prácticas morales en la transformación moral de la vida pública, en los asuntos referentes a la pobreza, y la formación de la personalidad moral de los estudiantes. Por último, atendiendo al Informe del PNUD, 2003, Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio: un pacto entre naciones para eliminar la pobreza, se hacen cinco propuestas de prácticas morales para que los estudiantes adquieran competencias referidas a la erradicación de la lacra moral y política de la pobreza. Tales propuestas pedagógicas están referidas: al desarrollo sostenible, la cooperación internacional, el consumo justo y responsable, la participación en movimientos de servicio voluntario a la sociedad y la participación política.ABSTRACT: The article is about the world poverty, specially referred to extreme poverty, and the challenge that it represents to moral education. It treats the problem of poverty in the context of human development, but keeping the poverty as centre of analysis and pedagogical proposals. The article starts from the situation of poverty in 2003, the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000, resolved by 189 heads of State or government, in order to eradicate the extreme poverty. It makes an ethical valuation of these situations and sets out the commitments that moral education should assume. It shows the importance of moral practices to transform moral public life, in events referred to poverty, and the education of the student's moral personality. Finally, paying attention to the PNUD Report, 2003, Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty, the article exposes five proposals on moral practice with the aim of developing students aptitudes in relation to the eradication of the moral and political blot of poverty. That pedagogical proposals are referred to the sustainable development, the international cooperation, the responsible and just consume, the participation on voluntary services to the society and the political participation.SOMMAIRE: L'article traite de la pauvreté dans le monde, particulièrement de la pauvreté sévère, et le défi qui presente cette situation a l'éducation morale. Actuellement, le problème de la pauvreté est abordé dans le contexte du développement humaine; c'est le même sens de notre article mais en tenant compte de la pauvreté comme centre d'analyse et des propositions pédagogiques. Le point de départ est la situation de la pauvreté à l'année 2003, de la Déclaration du Milennium des Nations Unies de l'année 2000, auxquelles sont arrivés les 189 chefs d'État ou Gouvernement, pour erradiquer la pauvreté sévère. On fait una estimation éthique de telles événements y on expose les engagements que l'éducation morale devrai assumer devant eux. On expose aussi le roi central des pratiques morales dans le changement morale de la vie publique, dans les affaires qui se rattache a la pauvreté, et la formation de la personalité morale des étudiants. Finallement, en tenant compte du PNUD 2003, Les objetifs du développement humaine du Millenium: un pacte entre les nations pour erradiquer la pauvreté, se font cinq propositions des pratiques morales pour que les étudiants puissent les adquérir referees à l'érradication du fléau social et politique de la pauvreté. Telles sont les propositions pédagogiques: le développement soutenable, la coopération international, la consommation juste et responsable, la participation dans des mouvements de service volontaire à la société et la participation politique.

Good Governance, State Capacity, and the Millennium Development Goals

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin Joshi
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Statistical Correlations ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Per Capita

AbstractInternational development agencies argue that “good governance” is crucial to attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but there are many ways to define and measure good governance. The paper begins by examining the World Bank’s minimal state conception of governance and then proposes an alternative approach based on strengthening state capacity. The paper tests this framework by developing a provisional Millennium Governance Index (MGI) for 126 countries. In comparative empirical analysis, the MGI has noticeably higher statistical correlations than the World Bank’s governance indicators on six out of seven MDGs even after controlling for per capita income levels.

scholarly journals Halfway up the highway: Can Nepal meet its Health Millennium Development Goals?

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (173) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav Vaidya ◽  
N Jha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
World Community ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Words Development ◽  
Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international objectives on poverty reduction adopted by the world community and provide the broad context for this revolution in thinking and practice. The MDGs place a central focus on public health, in recognition of the fact that improvements in public health are vital not only in their own right but also to break the poverty trap of the world's poorest economies. Nepal has been committed to achieving the MDGs since it endorsed the Millennium Declaration. As we have at present just passed the midway through the 15 years to MDGs deadline of 2015, this article reviews the status of Nepal in achieving the MDGs, the challenges it faces and whether it can achieve the MDGs by 2015.Key words: development, goals, health, millennium, Nepal

Multiple Perspectives for Poverty Reduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 523-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Sofo ◽  
Alison Wicks ◽  
Michelle Sofo ◽  
Riyana Miranti ◽  
Luke Taylor-Ide
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Fund

The 193 United Nations member countries, focused on halving world poverty by 2015, set eight Millennium Development Goals. A new 2030 agenda for sustainable development has replaced the failed goals; it comprises 17 new sustainable development goals including ending poverty. 1.2 billion people (about 20% of the world's population) cannot fulfil most basic daily needs to live without fear, hunger, or suffering. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) estimates that more than one billion people in the world live on less than US$1 a day while 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than US$2 per day. The chapter strategically examines four perspectives (economic, sociological, occupational, and educational) to identify some of the key success factors to ensure the viability of new micro-businesses. A theoretical framework that incorporates these perspectives and the SEED–SCALE methodology is proposed, demonstrating how the establishment of new micro-businesses may be used to reduce poverty in developing economies.

scholarly journals Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World: GOLD III

2014 ◽  
pp. 178-179
Author(s):  
Claire Frost
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World is the third instalment in United Cities and Local Government’s (UCLG) flagship series of global reports on local democracy and decentralisation (GOLD III). In the context of rapid urbanisation, climate change and economic uncertainty the report is an impressive attempt to analyse local government’s role in the provision of basic services, the challenges they are facing, and make recommendations to improve local government’s ability to ensure access for all. Published in 2014, the report is well positioned to feed into the current debate on what will follow the UN Millennium Development Goals, and examines the role of local government in the provision of basic services across the world regions.

PREVENTION OF OBSTETRIC HAEMORRHAGE

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOHA SAID ◽  
MICHAEL GEARY
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Maternal Death ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Postpartum Haemorrhage ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Obstetric Haemorrhage ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Developed World

Obstetric haemorrhage has been recognised as a major cause of maternal death as long as physicians have studied and written about childbirth. Until the 20th century, however, little was possible in the way of effective treatment. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is still a frequent cause of death in many parts of the world. Even in developing countries, it remains the 3rd biggest killer of women in childbirth, despite considerable advances in medical care in the last half-century. The modern management of PPH may include a team of anaesthetists, haematologists, vascular surgeons, gynaecologists and radiologists.1Clearly, this change represents an advance which has saved and will continue to save countless lives, not only in the developed world where such teamwork is routine, but also in developing nations that are desperately looking for ways to reduce maternal mortality as part of their efforts to comply with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.2

scholarly journals Hungry people in the rich world-a study of poverty turning lethal

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Hasnan Baber
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Empty Stomach ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Growing Population

America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbours will go to bed hungry. It may be your child's schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach. Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn't make ends meet. Perhaps it's an elderly neighbour who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries. The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America- David Nasby, General Mills Over 1.2 billion people - one in every five on Earth - live on less than $1 (U.S)a day. We're getting fatter and fatter in America, as well as in most of the rest of the world. Of course there are some starving people who don't have enough to eat or to sustain themselves, and this is a serious problem that should be addressed. Poverty does not have one clear definition. It is a complicated, multi-faceted concept. For this paper the term 'poverty' will be used to mean a lack of access to basic resources including food, clean water, sanitation, education and capital. Indeed, hunger is the worst manifestation of poverty and it will persist as long as poverty exists but Are people only hungry for food? No!. People are hungry everywhere, some for money, some for property, some for lust, some for love, some for power. As long as there is a desire for more and more, hunger cannot be eradicated. Hunger for food is fatal but equally debatable issue as other hungers of world. You give food to poor because they are hungry, they will be more hungry for better food then. Hunger is immortal but poverty can be murdered. The world has made great strides in the struggle against poverty, but we're a long way from realizing the benchmark of the Millennium Development Goals to cut in half by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer poverty. Growing population is not the cause of poverty, money is enough in the world infact more than it would have been but it is the distribution which is flawed. Richer getting richer and poorer getting poorer, it is not the mistake of poor or the luck of richer but the system itself which was created to make such difference whether it is brettonwoods conference or Americas plan to capture oil contented nations. The aim of this paper will be to prove, it is poverty alone which can be eradicated from the world by different mechanisms and policies for which every country should stand and deliver its part but not the hunger of desire to have more and more.

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