Agro-Climatic Regional Planning in India: Themes and Case Studies

Rural areas currently are home to 70 per cent of India's population. Providing rural India with better access to services, technology, education and health care will reduce inequality and alleviate poverty for hundreds of millions of its citizens. It is critical that rural initiatives be linked to empowerment and capacity-building, to achieve a sustainable and inclusive rural development in the context of the Millennium Development Goals. The present volume is a collection of theme papers of the