Adoption research for many years has considered individual farmer as the basis of analysis, whereas the effect of networks governing a farmer’s decision-making has received limited attention. Moreover, the spread of technology over different generation of adopters has not been addressed...

The article describes the experimentation of Change Initiatives, an Indian NGO of sub-regional scope, with the application of ICT in agricultural information management under the EU sponsored TeleSupport Project at Nadia district of West Bengal, India. During the project period an innovative...

Identification and characterization of farming systems simplify huge diversity of farm types in complex agro-ecosystems, which is of critical importance for precise technological intervention and informed policy support. Multivariate statistical techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA)...

Adoption research for many years has considered individual farmer as the basis of analysis, whereas the effect of networks governing a farmer's decision-making has received limited attention. Moreover, the spread of technology over different generation of adopters has not been addressed...

Identification and characterization of farming systems simplify huge diversity of farm types in complex agro-ecosystems, which is of critical importance for precise technological intervention and informed policy support. Multivariate statistical techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA)...

This study employed participatory well-being ranking (PWBR) exercise with men and women separately for generating gendered poverty line in West Bengal state of India. Men and women differed in a number of themes related to the experience of poverty. The gender disaggregated qualitative...