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Global food price surge, in-kind transfers and household welfare: Evidence from India by Negi, Digvijay S.

“…•Rice and wheat cultivating households gain from high global food prices.•Welfare gains mainly accrued to net producers.•In-kind food transfers insulated food…”
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Smoothing consumption in times of illness: Household recourse mechanisms by Dureja, Abhishek, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…We study the welfare impacts of illness shocks on rural agricultural households in the semi‐arid tropical and humid eastern regions of India. These regions are…”
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Coping with the consequences of short‐term illness shocks: The role of intra‐household labor substitution by Dureja, Abhishek, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…In developing countries where medical infrastructure, service delivery systems, and the markets for health insurance are underdeveloped, one important…”
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Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…•Diversification toward high-value agriculture and poverty link not studied rigorously.•This paper finds significant effect of diversification on…”
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Farmers’ choice of market channels and producer prices in India: Role of transportation and communication networks by Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Khan, Md. Tajuddin

“…•Choice of marketing channels varies by farmer and location characteristics.•Poor transport and communication networks restrict farmers’ market access.•Lack of…”
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Effectiveness of Farmers’ Risk Management Strategies in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from India by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Smallholder farmers in developing countries are more vulnerable to climate risks, and most of them, because of a lack of access to institutional risk…”
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Diversification in Indian agriculture towards high value crops: Multilevel determinants and policy implications by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…•This paper partitions the variation in area share of high value crops at different geographical levels to assess their contextual effects over and above the…”
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Assessing benefits of crop insurance vis-a-vis irrigation in Indian agriculture by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Mishra, Ashok K.

“…•Assess the impact of crop insurance vis-à-vis irrigation on farm income.•Use nationally representative farm survey data and the MESR technique.•Farmers'…”
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Separability, spillovers, and segmented markets : Evidence from dairy in India by Narayanan, Sudha, Negi, Digvijay S, Gupta, Tanu

“…A long history of empirical research has focused on testing whether and when household consumption and production decisions are separable. If markets were…”
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A multilevel analysis of drought risk in Indian agriculture: implications for managing risk at different geographical levels by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Drought is an important downside risk in Indian agriculture; and the spatial differences in its intensity and probability of occurrence are considerable. To…”
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Climate change and land-use in Indian agriculture by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Bhan, Subhash C.

“…Using spatially disaggregated district-level data from India, this study has investigated the impact of climate change, especially rising temperature, on land…”
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impacts of information on returns from farming: evidence from a nationally representative farm survey in India by Birthal, Pratap S, Kumar, Shiv, Negi, Digvijay S, Roy, Devesh

“…Using a nationally representative sample of farm households from India, this paper examines the impact of use of information on net farm incomes. Employing…”
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Is Indian agriculture becoming resilient to droughts? Evidence from rice production systems by Birthal, Pratap S., Negi, Digvijay S., Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Agarwal, Shaily

“…•The paper has examined frequency, severity and spread of droughts in India, and their impact on rice.•The droughts have become more frequent but less intense…”
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Understanding the geographic pattern of diffusion of modern crop varieties in India: a multilevel modeling approach by Kumar, Anjani, Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap S., Tripathi, Gaurav

“…The diffusion of agricultural technologies is influenced by a number of factors, including the farm-, household- and location-specific characteristics,…”
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Benefits of irrigation against heat stress in agriculture: Evidence from wheat crop in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Pandey, Ghanshyam

“…Applying the fixed effects regression technique to the highly spatially disaggregated district-level data from 1966–67 to 2011–12 this paper has assessed the…”
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Livestock for Higher, Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Growth by BIRTHAL, PRATAP S, NEGI, DIGVIJAY S

“…Diversification of the agricultural production portfolio to include livestock is an effective way of accelerating agricultural growth and reducing rural…”
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Basis risk and the demand for catastrophic rainfall insurance by Negi, Digvijay S, Ramaswami, Bharat

“…Rainfall is an important source of covariate shock in developing countries. Insurance against a rainfall index has, therefore, held much promise as a formal…”
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Delayed monsoon, irrigation and crop yields by Amale, Hardeep Singh, Birthal, Pratap Singh, Negi, Digvijay Singh

“…Most of the empirical literature assessing the impacts of climate change on agriculture has modeled crop yields as a function of the levels or deviations in…”
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Farmers' social networks and the diffusion of modern crop varieties in India by Negi, Digvijay Singh, Birthal, Pratap, Kumar, Anjani, Tripathi, Gaurav

“…PurposeThe main aim of this paper is to assess the relevance of caste-based social networks in the dissemination of technologies and innovations in the Indian…”
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