Itishree Pattnaik

• Ph.D. Economics
• Gujarat Institute of Development Research

A response to the analysis of Orissa's economy (epw, 15 May 2010), suggesting that agriculture may not be caught in a stagnation and that the impact of mining may not as yet be deleterious on a large scale.

Since 2005, Government of Gujarat has been organising an annual, month-long, pre-monsoon Krishi Mahotsava (Agrarian Festival) campaign to expose farmers to new farming technologies and market opportunities, enhance their interaction with scientists and input suppliers, and improve their access to various government schemes. Krishi Mahotsava entails...

The rising share of farm work in India undertaken by women – a phenomenon commonly referred to as the feminization of agriculture – raises questions about the changing character of rural India, particularly with regards to women's social and economic roles. Based on an analysis of four sets of occupational data drawn from the Indian Census (1981, 1...

"Agriculture across India has been witnessing several fundamental shifts, of which the most important are the roles of women and men in agricultural tasks. Among smallholder farmer families, men are increasingly migrating out of agriculture in pursuit of non-farm income opportunities. Women who are left behind assume the roles of de facto ‘heads of...

Ushering in the next phase of agriculture in India requires a deeper understanding of the growth process across regions and socio-economic contexts with an emphasis on strengthening the role of women. This paper argues that it is critical to capture socio-cultural diversity across various agro-climatic zones to arrive at a more detailed understandi...

Widowhood restricts women in many ways to avail and access opportunities in many aspects of livelihood and autonomy of decision making capabilities. While the socioeconomic challenges of widows are of one kind the same challenges are often valid even in case of single women who are unmarried. Using unit level data from NSSO 2014 (health and morbidi...

Drawing on the findings of an extensive questionnaire-based survey conducted in two Indian states of West Bengal and Gujarat, this paper investigates whether the concentration of women's labour contributions to agriculture has improved their autonomy in decision-making. It shows that women's labour burdens have increased without associated benefits...

Given the changing scenario in rural India, an attempt has been made in the paper to understand the agrarian transformation of the Indian economy, with a specific focus on rural non-farm sector in Gujarat. The paper tries to decipher the ways the rural economy has responded to the changes. It also attempts to find out alternatives as well as policy...

The recent discourse on migration in developing economies seeks to revisit the conventional binary approach where distress and development-induced migratory movements were seen as dichotomous situations. The new paradigm looks at migration, for economic motive, as an important exit route from poverty, including for the chronically poor, irrespectiv...

Education is an important dimension of development and an indicator of human development and well-being. It is also an important vehicle for attaining higher and sustained economic growth, which may in turn help expand economic opportunities and enhance returns to work and workers, especially among those with higher education and technical skills....

Irrespective of the fast economic growth in India, the progress in achieving gender equality is slow and substandard. According to FAO although women produce sixty to eighty percent of the food in developing countries, more than sixty percent of those identified as hungry are women and children. Several studies have highlighted women’s control and...

The growth story of Gujarat's agriculture (with around 10 per cent growth rate in the recent phase) has received considerable attention and is often hailed as a role model for other states to follow. In this context, it is therefore important to examine the major factors contributing to this high growth performance. This paper tries to identify the...

This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand the coping mechanisms adopted by the households in the dryland areas to cope with the distress situations in India. The paper has two fold objectives; one is to understand th...