PROTECTED CULTIVATION IN INDIA: MEETING CHALLENGES

Cultivation of Ipecacuanha in India

Partition, Migration, and Jute Cultivation in India

We show that refugees can play positive roles in receiving economies by looking at the partition of India. We use an instrumental variables (IV) strategy to show that migrants played a major part in India’s take-up of jute cultivation. Our estimates suggest that migrants fully explain post-partition jute cultivation. Consistent with migrants bringing jute-specific skills with them, we find that...

Meeting global challenges.

EVERY MAJOR CHALLENGE OF MODERN LIFE, SUCH AS ENSURING ENERGY, HEALTH, WATER, OR FOOD security in a sustainable world with a predicted nine billion inhabitants, has complex science and technology (S&T) components and is global in character, even though its expression often involves national idiosyncrasies. Searching for solutions requires that the scientifi c community operate in fundamentally ...

Evaluating impact of possible transgenic poplar cultivation on protected areas

Background Plant biodiversity studies have been performed in the Migliarino-San Rossore-Massaciuccoli Regional Park in Tuscany (Italy) within the framework of the European project LIFE08 NAT/IT/342.This project aims at developing a quick monitoring index (QMI) to rapidly assess the potential risk generated by transgenic plants in characterized ecosystems or biotopes. For this reason test areas ...

Primary immunodeficiency: meeting the challenges.

There are many challenges to those who specialize in the research, education, and clinical care of patients with primary immunodeficiency. The first of these difficult challenges is just keeping up with this rapidly moving area of medicine, a task that is obvious to those who are engaged in the ongoing discoveries of genetic mutations causing previously unrecognized primary immunodeficiencies. ...