This volume comprises of 25 essays giving awareness why we must pay more attention to small-scale fisheries. The essays cover a broad range of topics that illustrate the diversity, complexity and dyna..
2002 | Roshen Epaarachchi, Sanath Jayanetti and Ananda Weliwita
This paper reviews in detail agricultural and trade policies and their implications for the domestic agricultural sector in general and paddy, potato, big onion, and chillies in particular during th..
This report presents an assessment of agricultural practices in Kurunegala City, Sri Lanka, which was undertaken as part of the Waste water Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation in Asia..
Enduring low agricultural productivity is one of the major causes of rural poverty in South Asia. Based on a review of recent empirical studies, this paper focuses on three key questions: (1) why is a..
This report in one in a series of project reports written by the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation in Asia (WASPA Asia) project. The WASPA Asia project aims to deve..
2010 | Ed.By.Jinapala, K.; De Silva, Sanjiv; Aheeyar, M. M. M.
This is the third volume of the proceedings of the national conference on ‘Water for Food and Environment’, which was held from June 9 –11, 2009 at the Bandaranaike Memorial Internat..
This report analyses the impact of a government programme for system rehabilitation and improvement of water management based on a study of two small irrigation systems in Sri Lanka and it draws les..
2011 | Kailash N. Pyakuryal and Bishnu Raj Upreti (eds.)
The book contains eleven chapters relating to land with a focus on small farmers and an emphasis on agricultural development aiming at agrarian transformation. The principle concepts explored in the s..
This publication is about small scale farmers in Africa and South Asia, the problems the farmers face and the steps that are taken to solve to achieve market potential. This research is conducted as p..
The article on contribution of agricultural insurance on livelihood of rural farmers submitted by Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB) to the Poverty Portal highlights importance of agri..
