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Irrigation for livelihoods improvement: small holder tribal irrigation in Jharkhand. IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program Annual Partners' Meet, 2002 by Satpathy, M.K.

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Assessing the potential to change partners’ knowledge, attitude and practices on sustainable livestock husbandry in India by Jarial, Sapna, Rware, H.I., Pali, Pamela N., Poole, Elizabeth J., Varijakshapanicker, Padmakumar

“…To facilitate the capacity strengthening, an initial assessment of the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of livestock aspects was conducted in 2011 for Sir Ratan Tata Trust and its non-government and government partners in Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Nagaland. The livestock species included cattle, buffalo and goats in Uttarakhand, goat and pig in Jharkhand and pig in Nagaland. …”
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SE4RL: piloting alternative models of solarization by Kuriachen, Philip

“…The project has field tested three models in Bihar, Eastern UP and Jharkhand which were tailored to local socio-ecological and agrarian conditions. …”
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Improving complementary feeding through community-based management of malnutrition in Rural India by Murugan, Ganapathy, Gope, Rajkumar, Dhingra, Nidhi

“…A baseline survey conducted during 2012 among selected districts with extremely marginalized populations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha revealed high rates of malnutrition and poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. …”
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Dual purpose wheat and barley for human food and livestock feed in India by International Livestock Research Institute

“…ELKS aims to support SRTT and its Allied Trusts and their partners to enhance their capacities to improve livestock based livelihoods in the hilly/tribal areas in Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand by (1) conducting research to fill technical knowledge gaps (2) strengthening institutional mechanisms and (3) facilitating pro-poor policies. …”
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Benchmarking Solar Pump Performance: Off-Grid Solar Irrigation Pumps in Eastern and Central India by Verma, Shilp, Kuriachen, Philip, Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, Sharma, Laxmi, Basu, Subhodeep, Usadadia, Nikunj

“…The study covered approximately 300 solar irrigation systems in Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh), Samastipur and Muzaffarpur (north Bihar), and East Singbhum (Jharkhand) to document usage patterns, irrigated area, revenue generation, equity of access, and operational efficiency. …”
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Comparisons of hunger across states: India State Hunger Index by Menon, Purnima, Deolalikar, Anil B., Bhaskar, Anjor

“…For instance, Bihar and Jharkhand rank lower than Zimbabwe and Haiti, whereas Madhya Pradesh falls between Ethiopia and Chad. …”
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Reducing stunting in India: what investments are needed? by Avula, Rasmi, Raykar, Neha, Menon, Purnima, Laxminarayan, Ramanan

“…Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur and Jharkhand the situation has not changed significantly (Raykar et al., 2015). …”
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Farmer Producer Organizations as Solar Entrepreneurs: The Case for Solar Pumps as Business Investments by Verma, Shilp, Murmu, S., Kuriachen, Philip, Kumar, D., Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, Usadadia, Nikunj, Mahto, Bhawani Shankhar

“…This brief presents an action research pilot in Kuyani village of Jharkhand, India, implemented jointly by Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives (CInI) and a local Farmer Producer Organization (FPO), with support from the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program and the Solar Energy for Rural Livelihoods (SE4RL) project. …”
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Hydrogeology of the eastern Ganges Basin: an overview by Natarajan, Rajmohan, Prathapar, Sanmugam A.

“…This study focuses on the Eastern Ganges Basin (EGB) and covers India (Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal), Bangladesh and the Nepal Terai. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to women’s participation in farmer producer organisations: Exploring the potential for women’s empowerment and collective efficacy by Bhanjdeo, Arundhita

“…We used 59 key informant interviews and nine focus group discussions to examine the constraints to, and facilitators of, women’s and men’s participation in three women-only FPOs in Jharkhand, an eastern Indian state. The FPO intervention we evaluated provided members with both agricultural and gender-based inputs to improve agronomic practices, market linkages, agricultural yields and profits, and the role of women both within the FPO and within their households and communities. …”
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Assessing the impact of lending through Kisan Credit Cards in rural India: Evidence from eastern India by Kumar, Anjani, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, S., Aditya K.

“…The study uses a large survey of rural/farming households in eastern India (Bihar, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal). Findings reveal that access to KCC is strongly associated with the socioeconomic and demographic characteristic of farming households. …”
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Kisan credit card and smallholder farmers’ economic performance in eastern India: A panel data analysis by Sharma, Kriti, Kumar, Anjani, Agrawal, R.C.

“…Using a panel data of 2,586 farming households from five states in Eastern India, namely, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal in 2018 and 2023, we examine the determinants of access to KCC and its credit limit. …”
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The impact of interventions delivered through farmer producer organizations on agricultural and empowerment outcomes in India by Ray, Soumyajit, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…We use two rounds of panel data on 1,200 households in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand to assess the impact of women-only FPOs. …”
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"From plot to people": A pilot photovoice exploration of the livelihood strategies that farmers use to benefit from the time and financial benefits zero tillage adoption in South A... by Brown, Brendan, Sharma, Akriti, Karki, Emma, Chaudhary, Anjana

“…We used 59 key informant interviews and nine focus group discussions to examine the constraints to, and facilitators of, women's and men's participation in three women-only FPOs in Jharkhand, an eastern Indian state. The FPO intervention we evaluated provided members with both agricultural and gender-based inputs to improve agronomic practices, market linkages, agricultural yields and profits, and the role of women both within the FPO and within their households and communities. …”
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Farmers’ awareness and perceptions of the new farm laws 2020 in India: Empirical evidence from a household survey by Kumar, Anjani, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Bathla, Seema

“…This paper assesses the farmers’ awareness and perceptions about these laws based on a large survey of households carried out during 2020 across five eastern states – Bihar, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal. The probit and multinomial regression models are used to examine the socio-economic factors that influence the farmers’ awareness and perceptions about usefulness of the ordinances. …”
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Irrigation governance, private investment, and agricultural productivity in India by Kumar, Anjani, Bathla, Seema, Elumalai, K., Saroj, Sunil

“…This suggests that states where both governance and private investment in irrigation are at very low levels should receive higher priority; these include Assam, Odisha, West Bengal, Kerala, Bihar and Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Other states which are low in governance but high in irrigation investment (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, and Karnataka) should improve governance in order to enable efficient use of irrigation resources.…”
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Entitlement fetching or snatching? Effects of arbitrage on India’s public distribution system by Chakrabarti, Suman, Kishore, Avinash, Roy, Devesh

“…Conversely, in states like Bihar and Jharkhand—where welfare programs are poorly run—the opposite pattern holds; that is, households’ purchase of subsidized grains recedes with greater arbitrage.…”
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Leveraging public works for sustainable and resilient livelihoods: Four case studies from India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act by Narayanan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Gautam, Aditi

“…ERADA was implemented in 8 blocks of 4 large Indian states, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. The ERADA project had three broad objectives - of enhancing natural capital, green recovery through green enterprises, and convergence of resources and networks - and identified the MGNREGA as a critical social safety net on which to base its activities. …”
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Digital mapping for inclusive rights on forest land and resources by Pradan in Odisha by Niranjan, Alagu D., Dominic, Ditty Maria, Mittal, Nimisha, Sulaiman, Rasheed V., Malhotra, Aayushi, Singaraju, Niyati, Sharma, Sheetal

“…In this context, PRADAN, one of India’s leading NGOs, has been facilitating the forest rights-claiming process in Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Over the years, PRADAN has achieved a major breakthrough by getting the claims accepted by the government using a digital mapping tool. …”
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