Assessing farm-level agricultural sustainability over a 60-year period in rural eastern India

Environmentalist

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-337

  Sharma, Deepti ^a   Shardendu, Shardendu ^a  

^a PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural Sustainability Index; Food Security; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; EDUCATION; FOOD SECURITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABILITY;

INDIA;

EID: 80051471234     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-011-9341-x     Document Type: Article

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