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Village Vignettes: Research
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Singh C, Basu, R and Srinivas, A (2016). Livelihood vulnerability and adaptation in Kolar District, Karnataka, India: Mapping risks and responses. ASSAR Short Report, ASSAR, South Africa. [ Link. Singh C, Gajjar Pahwa S, Deshpande T (2016). Policies, Projects and People: Exploring the Adaptation-development Spectrum in India. CARIAA-ASSAR Working Paper #2. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada and UK Aid, London, United Kingdom. [ Link. The Adaptation Development Spectrum. Singh C, Do...
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Village Vignettes: September 2014
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Saturday, 20 September 2014. Book Review Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World. I just finished reading Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World. It is strange that it is only now that I finally read this masterpiece; six years since I first went to Ladakh. The destination. But even if Ladakh was not such an integral part of my growth, I would still have been very sorry to miss Ancient Futures. Long before 'bottom-up development' and 'climate-smart agriculture' ...
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Village Vignettes: February 2015
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Thursday, 26 February 2015. Interview CARIAA Young Researchers. Filling up a monitoring form for a medicinal plant nursery in. Keylong, Himachal Pradesh (2008). Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) is an IDRC and DFID funded project working on building resilience of vulnerable populations in vulnerability hotspots. As part of their series on young researchers working on climate change issues. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). LSE Review of Books.
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Village Vignettes: Book Review | Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World
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Saturday, 20 September 2014. Book Review Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World. I just finished reading Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World. It is strange that it is only now that I finally read this masterpiece; six years since I first went to Ladakh. The destination. But even if Ladakh was not such an integral part of my growth, I would still have been very sorry to miss Ancient Futures. Long before 'bottom-up development' and 'climate-smart agriculture' ...
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Village Vignettes: February 2014
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Friday, 21 February 2014. Link Pack: Development economics, constructions of climate change. Zed books, one of my favourite publishers, recently reissued several pivotal books under their Critique Influence Change Series. I just finished the incredibly provocative and engrossing ' Reclaiming Development. Making climate change visible'. By Dr Ian Scoones summarises discussions from the recently concluded STEPS-JNU Symposium on 'Exploring Pathways to Sustainability'. Can begin to challenge one-sided constr...
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Village Vignettes: March 2014
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Saturday, 29 March 2014. Book Review: Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World. Access to water is poised to be the issue future wars will be fought over, especially in the context of global climate change and its current and projected impacts. In. Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World: the hydro-hazardscapes of climate change,. For more about the book and the variety of case studies Mustafa uses to illustrate his thesis, read a book review I did for New Asia Books. Monday, 24 March 2014.
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Village Vignettes: Integrated landscape management in Asia: who participates,who doesn't?
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Sunday, 14 December 2014. Integrated landscape management in Asia: who participates,who doesn't? Till recently, I was working on a Global Review of Integrated Landscape Initiatives with Bioversity International. And the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative. As part of the Asia review, we surveyed 166 landscape initiatives in South and Southeast Asia. To get a better idea of what works in integrated landscape management and what doesn't. From the Bioversity website. Integrated landscape manag...
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Village Vignettes: Pushing disciplinary boundaries: No, really.
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Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Pushing disciplinary boundaries: No, really. As nerdy as it may sound, I enjoy learning. I look forward to hearing new ideas and meeting people with varied research interests. This year as a postdoc on the ASSAR consortium. I have found myself flooded with opportunities to just this - attend trainings, go to conferences, meet some really good researchers, and in the process learn along the way. In March, I attended a week-long training on DSSAT. Although one training does not make...
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Village Vignettes: December 2013
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Sunday, 22 December 2013. The virtues of writing simply. Those who write clearly have readers,. Those who write obscurely have commentators.'. Academic writing can be daunting. I often find that when trying to communicate complex ideas, coherence and clarity tends to get compromised. However, like any other skill, writing can. Be perfected by practice. I recently finished reading Orwell's Why I Write,. Orwell goes on to list some simple rules to help make decisions while writing:. By Dr Rachel Cayley of ...
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