Socio-economic analysis of villages in relation to aquaculture potential in Raichur district, Karnataka, India.
1998
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, UK.
This is one of a series of 10 working papers produced as the first stage of a project to investigate the potential for integration of aquaculture into small-scale, farmer-managed irrigation systems in arid and semi-arid regions of India and Sri Lanka. This part of the project focused on Karnataka State, India, and the papers were produced as a resource for a stakeholder workshop, held in Coimbatore, 19-20 November, 1998.<br/><br/>This paper presents a socioeconomic analysis of 4 villages in Raichur District, selected on the basis of the frequency of small-scale, farmer-managed irrigation water bodies as well as on socioeconomic characteristics such as caste composition and literacy levels. Village research was carried out using participatory methods such as semi-structured interviewing, wealth ranking, mapping, diagramming, and ranking and scoring of key parameters.<br/><br/>The contents of the paper are as follows:<br/>Introduction - the need for social analysis in development projects.<br/>Methodology.<br/>Castes.<br/>Village characteristics.<br/>Local economy.<br/>Socioeconomic conditions in relation to potential for aquaculture.<br/>A list of references, 1 appendix, 12 tables and 3 figures are provided.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]الكلمات المفتاحية الخاصة بالمكنز الزراعي (أجروفوك)
المعلومات البيبليوغرافية
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