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The Risk of Mission Drift in MFIs and How to Manage It

November 22, 2022 arflabweb

Introduction: What is Mission Drift in MFIs? Microfinance institutions (MFIs) typically provide small loans to low-income individuals and families who…

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Filed under: Financial Efficiency, Microfinance, Mission Drift, Social Efficiency

Price management in agri-commodity derivative markets: An Indian outlook

August 11, 2022 arflabweb

The agriculture sector plays a crucial role in the Indian economy. Almost two-thirds of the population directly or indirectly depend…

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Filed under: Price Discovery, Price forecasting, Price management, Price Volatility

Insights from Telangana state’s crucial agricultural schemes

June 30, 2022 arflabweb

Agriculture and related activities are vital to the lives and livelihoods of the majority of the households in the state.…

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Filed under: agricultural schemes, Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima, Rythu Vedika

Unlocking Climate Finance in Global and Indian Context

April 14, 2022 arflabweb

The world is experiencing a growing frequency of extreme weather, average temperature, shifts in seasons, and other climate change characteristics.…

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Filed under: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Finance, Green Bonds, Green Finance

How Mobile Gender Gap is Hindering DFS Penetration in South Asian Economies

February 4, 2022 arflabweb

Over the last decade, India has seen a tremendous increase in the number of internet service providers and users. Secure…

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Filed under: Digital divide, Digital financial services, Digital literacy, FinTech, Mobile gender gap

Green Bonds- A new armour in the kitty for India’s agricultural investment needs

December 10, 2021 arflabweb

Agricultural sector plays a unique role in the development of the Indian economy due to its involvement in alleviating poverty and potential to provide livelihood to vast section of the population.

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Filed under: Agriculture, Climate Change Adaptation, Green Bonds, Priority Sector Lending

Rural Women and Farm Bills: A SHG Perspective

December 12, 2020 arflabweb

Indian Farming System and Rural WomenAgriculture, the largest source of livelihood, accounted for 23% contribution in GDP where 70% of…

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Adaptation and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Solar Based Micro Irrigation Systems in Western India

October 16, 2020 arflabweb

Micro-irrigation technologies are proven to be the best solution for tackling the issues of declining water and energy resources, and…

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AI Potential to Strengthen the Agricultural Finance Access by Small-Scale Farmers

October 9, 2020 arflabweb

The possibility to use different artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in predicting the financial requirement and its effective management by smallholders…

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Farmers’ Satisfaction with Institutional Financing: Moderating and Mediating Effects

August 31, 2020 arflabweb

Farmer Interaction in Dapoli block of Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra Government of India has been implementing a number of policies to…

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News & Research Updates

  • • Job Opportunities – ARF Lab is recruiting a Research Associate – Subject Matter Expert. Interested Candidates can apply. For more details – https://arflab.co.in/contact-us/
  • • ARF Lab congratulates Mr. Shiladitya Dey on the successful presentation of his PhD synopsis seminar
  • • Dey, S. and Singh, P.K. (2022). Estimating Farmers’ Intention towards Institutional Credit Adoption by Using Extended Theory of Planned Behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. (ahead-of-print). http://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12952 [Posted On: 24/11/2022]
  • • Dey, S., Pal, A., Nandy, A., Baishnab, K., & Singh, P.K. (2022). Role of Circular Economy in Achieving Sustainable Growth in Agriculture and Food Sector. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Doni, F., Salvia, A.L. (eds) Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_75-1 [Posted on: 10/10/2022]
  • • Kandasamy, S.U.L., Singh, P.K., and Swain, D.K. (2022). Determination of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Integrated Farming System in Dryland Areas of Southern India by Using Supervised Learning Techniques. Journal of Asian and African Studies, (ahead-of-print). [Posted On: 10/10/2022]
  • • Dey, S., Singh, P.K. and Mhaskar, M. D. (2022). Determinants of Institutional Agricultural Credit Access and its Linkage with Farmer Satisfaction in India: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis. Agricultural Finance Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-02-2022-0028 (ahead-of-print)[Posted On: 19/08/2022]
  • • Kandasamy, S.U.L., Singh, P.K., and Swain, D.K. (2022). Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques. Local Environment, 27(7), 824-846. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2077712 [Posted On: 18/07/2022]
  • • ARF Lab congratulates Dr. Anirban Nandy, on achieving his PhD from CRDIST, IIT Kharagpur. It was indeed a great journey from PhD enrollment to defending the thesis and you have successfully completed. Wishing you a very bright future ahead…… [Posted On : 20/05/2022]
  • •ARF Lab congratulates the team for launching the new elective ‘Rural Infrastructure Development and Management [RD30011; Credit 3: 3-0-0]’ at CRDIST, IIT Kharagpur. We welcome all the participants and wish them to have a fruitful learning experience out of the course. Posted on [17/01/2022]
  • • ARF Lab congratulates all the participants for attending the SPARC webinar series on ‘Integrated Surface-Groundwater Management for Sustainable Development’ scheduled on 6th December 2021 @ 2.00 PM. [Posted on 16/12/2021]
  • • Nandy, A., Singh, P.K. (2021). Energy efficiency evaluation for sustainable paddy production in eastern India: Insights from integrated DEA and XGBOOST machine learning algorithm. International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Development October 31-November 02, 2021. Shenzhen, China. Elsevier Publication [Posted On : 12/11/2021]
  • • ARF lab congratulates Mr. Anirban Nandy for successfully presenting his synopsis seminar on Resource Use Efficiency Estimation of Paddy Growers in Eastern India on 26 October 2021 [Posted On : 28/10/2021]
  • • An Integrative Approach to Determine the Credit Constraints and Role of Social Networking in Farmers’ Credit Access from Different Financial Institutions by Dey S., Singh P. K. World Finance Conference (WFC 2021)- (Aug 2021) [Posted On : 17/10/2021]
  • • Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future by Dey S., Pal A., Nandi A., Baishnab K., Singh P. K., Circularity in the built-environment: Sharing economy, a catalyst for sustainable growth – Accepted 2021 [Posted On : 17/10/2021]
  • • Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future by Pal A., Dey S., Nandy A., Shahin S., Singh P. K., Digital Transformation as a Driver for Sustainable Development – Accepted 2021 [Posted On : 17/10/2021]
  • • Energy and Environmental Security in Developing Countries by Pal A., Nandy A., Dey S., Singh P. K., Optimising Energy Use Efficiency for Agricultural Sustainability – Published: 2021 [Posted On : 17/10/2021]

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