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IFAD in India: voices from the field

© IFAD 		Poverty and Maoist guerrillas remind India all is not shining

“India Shining”, the slogan that lost the governing BJP party the election two and a half years ago, still has the ring of truth. The slogan may have backfired, igniting a backlash among India’s legions of poor who turned out at the polls in high numbers and put Congress back into power, but the fact is the Indian economy IS shining, or as the Hindustan Times puts it on a billboard, “India rocks”. There can be little doubt that with its 8.5% growth rate the country is on its way up.

by: Jonathan Power

© IFAD 		Self-sufficiency and beyond: resource management in North-east India

Widespread environmental degradation in the north-eastern region of India is aggravating poverty and food security, and forcing rural people to exploit dwindling resources to meet subsistence requirements. An IFAD-supported project has introduced a new model for sustainable management of the resource base. Now communities care for the environment, and have learned to make use of natural resources to improve livelihoods and ensure that the land will continue to provide for future generations.

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© IFAD 		Tamil Nadu women's development project

With the progress made in the past two decades, India’s acute and severe food shortages have become a thing of the past and the Government can turn its efforts towards long-term structural problems, such as the low social status of women. Despite their virtual lack of access to means of improving their incomes, women make an essential contribution to their families survival, especially among the poorer strata. In fact, rural women are estimated to be the sole family providers in 20-25% of homes, clearly a work force with economic potential.
 

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Statistics
Projects: 24

Total cost:
US$2145.4 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$746.3 million

Directly benefiting:
3,935,510 households
Contact Information

Nigel Brett
Country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592516
Fax: +39 0654593516
n.brett@ifad.org

Vincent Darlong
Implementation Support Officer
WFP Regional Office 2, Poorvi Marg – Vasant Vihar
New Delhi , India
Work: +91 1146554000 ext. 2884
v.darlong@ifad.org
vdarlong@hotmail.com

Meera Mishra
Coordinator
WFP Regional Office 2, Poorvi Marg – Vasant Vihar
New Delhi , 
Work: +91 11 46554056
m.mishra@ifad.org
nippymishra@gmail.com

Sriram Sankara Subramaniam
Assistant Programme Officer
WFP Regional Office 2, Poorvi Marg – Vasant Vihar
New Delhi , India
Work: +91 1146554057
Work: +91 114655 4000 ext. 3110
Fax: +91 1146554055
Mobile: +91 9654592193
s.subramanium@ifad.org