If rural development, agriculture, livelihood are part of the national agenda then policy makers need to understand how agriculture and rural development can create jobs and livelihoods for small farmers and the landless, while producing food and raw materials for the urban economy. Most rural societies are relatively integrated in the sense that various aspects are interlinked. Rural people do not easily recognise the distinctions which planners make between, for example, the responsibilities of different agencies, or the difference between economic and social planning because to their way of thinking all these things directly affect each other. Central to the formation of rural development strategies is the role of community action which can form a key element of rural development strategies. CSD focusses on the research and study of agriculture, rural development, the factors that help their growth, technology, supply of inputs, access to market, policies and programmes underpinned by the notion of improving people’s lives.
PROJECTS
2015 Impact of Organic Farming on Agricultural Productivity, Profitability and Sustainability: A Case Study of Bihar, Kerala and Telangana
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2015 Climate Change and Agrarian Crisis: Implications of Rice Cultivation in West Bengal
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2015 Study on Access to Institutional Credit by Farmers in Eastern India
Sponsoring Agency National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
2015 Transformations in Agrarian Relations in the Times of Agrarian Crisis and Well-Being of Small and Marginal Farmers and Landless Labourers
Sponsoring Organisation Indian Council for Social Science Research
2015 Study on Access to Institutional Credit to Small and Marginal Farmers with Special Reference to SC/ST Farmers
Sponsoring Organisation Indian Council for Social Science Research
2014 Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF – India)
Sponsoring Organisation The World Bank
2014 Land and Livelihood Initiatives — Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Karnataka and West Bengal
Sponsoring Organisation National Institute of Administrative Research Lal Bahadur Shastri , National Academy of Administration
2013 Role of National Food Security Mission in Improving Agricultural Productivity in Selected Districts
Sponsoring Organisation Planning Commission, Government of India
2013 Socio-economic Benefit Survey of TEGRATM Technology and SIRI Farming Methods
Sponsoring Organisation Sygenta
2013 Institutional Credit Farm Productivity and Farm Distress
Sponsoring Organisation Bharat Krishak Samaj
2013 Evaluation of the Scheme ‘Market Development of Tribal Development/Produce
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India
2013 Evaluation of the Scheme ‘Market Development of Tribal Development/Produce
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Tribal Affairs
2012 A Study of the Status and Impact of Land Leasing on Agricultural Efficiency and Equity: Case Study of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Sponsoring Organisation Rural Development Institute
2012 Socio-economic Impact Assessment of Bt. Cotton in India
Sponsoring Organisation Bharat Krishak Samaj
2012 Role of National Food Security Mission in Improving Agricultural Productivity in Selected Districts
Sponsoring Organisation Planning Commission, Government of India
2012 Status and Trends of Education, Participation, Expenditure and Outcome in Rural India
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2011 Social Impacts of Right to Work: An Assessment of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Sponsoring Organisation United Nations Development Programme, Ministry of Rural Development Government of India
2011 Land Acquisition in Green Revolution Areas and Perceptions of Farmers
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2011 Constraints and Potentials of Diversified Agricultural Development In Eastern India
Sponsoring Organisation Planning Commission, Government of India
2010 Mechanism of Marginalisation in West Bengal: Case Study of Puruliya Villages
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2010 Economic Analysis of Yield Gaps in Principal Crops in India
Sponsoring Organisation National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
2010 Assessment of Social Impacts of Implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2010 Social Impact Assessment of Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policies and Packages in India
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2009 Issues of Urban Ressetlement: A Case Study of a Resettlement Colony in Delhi
Project Report
2009 Economic Analysis of Yield Gaps in Principal Crops in India
Sponsoring Organisation National Bank of Agricultural and Rural Development
2008 Initiative towards Enviornmentally and Socially Sensitive Development of the Birhor Area of Jharkhand
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Changing Patterns of Socio-economic Life of a Village in Delhi
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Canal Irrigation, Land Degradation and Marginalisation: A Case Study of Allahabad District
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Mechanism of Marginalisation in West Bengal: Case Study of Puruliya Villages
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Land Rights and the Marginalised: A Study of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Access to Land: A Case of Fishing Community in Kerala
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2006 Forgotten Villages: A People’s Perspective on the Proposed Relocation from Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan
Sponsoring Organisation National Foundation for India
Project Report
2006 Effects of Forest Use on Bio-diversity Conservation Values as seen in the Bird Communities of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Environment and Forest
2004 Concurrent Evaluation of Swaran Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana of Uttaranchal
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2004 Globalisation and the Poor: Sustaining Rural Livelihood in India (Trilateral Project in Collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Sponsoring Organisation Shastri Applied Research Project, Canada