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Mahalingam, Mahalakshmi R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Food insecurity is a global concern and is acute in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as well as pockets in the global North. In the lush green spaces of "God's Own Country", the state of Kerala in India, about 379,000 women are engaged in farming in about 75,800 groups. Spearheaded by Kudumbashree, the State Poverty Eradication Mission…
Descriptors: Hunger, Females, Agricultural Occupations, Poverty
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Anikin, Vasiliy A. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2021
This paper set out to reassess the effects of economic and social determinants of the probability of formal vocational training in India. Applying the four-level cross-classified logistic model to the 2011-2012 National Sample Survey data, the paper identified the association between formal training and 'good jobs' in large urban electrified firms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Social Influences, Vocational Education
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Syamprasad, K. V. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Cultural Capital, Affirmative Action