The political economy of farmers' suicides in India: Indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kennedy, Jonathan ^a,b   King, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrarian crisis; Cash crops; Farmers' suicides; Indebtedness; India; Marginal farmers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CASH CROPPING; CULTIVATION; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDIA; POLITICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

INDIA;

AGRICULTURE; HUMANS; INDIA; POLITICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84899688287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-10-16     Document Type: Article

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