Avinash Kishore

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of changes in the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) on household food consumption using data from a repeated cross-section of Indian households from five rounds of representative consumption surveys between 1993-1994 and 2009-2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a discrete choice experiment with 666 farmers from the Palghar and Thane districts of Maharashtra to measure their willingness to pay for drum seeders, a key piece of equipment for adopting DSR.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Bihar and found no evidence of any impact of soil testing and customized fertilizer recommendations on actual fertilizer use or the willingness to pay for lacking nutrients (elicited using a Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at affordable prices in India and also point out limitations of some of the most common recommendations for achieving these objectives, including investing in research and extension for pulses, aggregating pulse growers into farmer producer organizations, and paying pulse growers or pulse-growing areas for the ecosystem services offered by pulses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to assess if various drought-proofing and drought-relief programs are effective in mitigating the impact of droughts on crop production and household consumption in rural Bihar, India.