Biodiversity is a valuable and yet poorly understood natural resource, depleting rapidly through human interventions. The economic value of biodiversity in a forest ecosystem includes its direct-use value and indirect-use value for the ecological regulatory services it provides. The Western...

For several decades, the public distribution system in Kerala was considered an effective measure of food security, a model for most other states. However, the salient features of Kerala’s model that received widespread recognition and appreciation, namely, universal coverage, high levels...