This book seeks to examine the role of agricultural diversification in food security in the mountain ecosystem in India, with special reference to the state of Uttarakhand. Finding out the existing patterns of agricultural landuse, it assesses the potentiality of the region for diversification of agriculture.
Further analyzing the job potential of agricultural diversification, it discusses at length the gross and net availability of food, the food secure and insecure regions, and the measures to improve sustainable agricultural development so as to ensure food security. The geographical profile of the study area—physical division, drainage system, climate, natural vegetation, soils and demographic characteristics—also makes part of the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Noor Mohammad
Noor Mohammad, (b. 1942), after obtaining his M.A. degree in Geography from the University of Gorakhpur with a first class first, joined Aligarh Muslim University in 1965 as a Junior Research Fellow. He was awarded the degree of University in 1965 as a Junior Research Fellow. He was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1969 and joined Kirori Mal College in the same year. Since 1976 Prof. Mohammad is associated with the Delhi School of Economics as Lecturer, Reader, Professor, Head of the Department and Co-ordinator UGC-SAP and is teaching geography to post-graduate and supervising research studies in the Department of Geography. Eight scholars have been admitted to Ph.D. degrees and about 40 scholars have been awarded M.Phil. degrees under his supervision. Prof. Mohammad is actively engaged in research in the field of agricultural geography, landuse and planning and population geography and has published more than 5 dozen research papers to his credit in many scholarly referred journals. His books on agricultural Landuse in India and Caste and Primary Occupations: A Geographical analysis have been very well received and have won wide acclaim in Indian and Foreign Universities. Prof. Mohammad has edited Perspectives in Agricultural Geography (in Five Volumes) under concepts International series in Geography which has been well taken the world over.
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