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Journal Publications

  • D. Suganthi, Vijay Laqxmi Pandey and S. Mahendra Dev. 2025. Interplay of Farm Production Diversity and Market Access with Dietary Diversity: Evidence from India. Journal of quantitative Economics, DOI 10.1007/s40953-025-00480-8
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey, S. Mahendra Dev, Ranjeeta Mishra (2019). “Pulses in Eastern India: Production Barriers and Consumption Coping Strategies”, Food Security, vol. 11, No 3, pp 609 - 622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00917-y
  • S. Mahendra Dev, Vijay Laxmi Pandey, D. Suganthi (2017). "Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Implications on Nutrition in India" in India Development Report 2017, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp 103-117
  • S. Chandrasekhar, S. Mahendra Dev, Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2016). “Pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition: Implications of the Occupation Structure in Rural India”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, DOI 10.1007/s41027-016-0038-z.
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey, S. Mahendra Dev and Usha Jaychandran (2016). “Impact of Agricultural Interventions on the Nutritional Status in South Asia: A Review”, Food Policy, vol. 62, pp. 28-40.
  • Ganguly, Kavery and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2016). “Transformation of Agriculture Following Economic Liberalization” in International Trade and Food Security: The Future of Indian Agriculture, edited by Floor Brouwer and P.K. Joshi, CAB International, pp 5-17.
  • S. Chandrashekhar and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2015). “Food Sufficiency in India: Addressing the Data Gaps”, Economics & Political Weekly, Vol 50 (9) pp.21-23.
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey and Suganthi Dhankar (2015). “Fueling Agricultural Growth in India”, Land Use Policy, vol.42, pp 227-232.
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey and Aditi Chaubal (2011). “Comprehending Household Cooking Energy Choice in Rural India”, Biomass and Bio-energy, vol. 35 (11), pp 4724-31.
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2010). “Interlinking of Onion Production and Marketing: A Case Study of Onion Contract Farming”, Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing, vol. 24 (3), pp 49-57.
  • “Zero tillage impacts in India’s rice-wheat systems: A review”, Soil & Tillage Research, vol.100, pp. 1-14, 2008. (with Erenstein, Olaf).
  • Olaf, Erenstein and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2010). “Assessing the Impact of Adaptive Agricultural Research on Accelerating Technology Deployment: Case of Zero Tillage Wheat in India”, Outlook on Agricultural, vol. 39 (2), pp 121-126.
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey and S. K. Sharma (2010). “Determinants of Adoption of Virus Management Technology in Papaya Cultivation”, Journal of Quantitative Economics, vol. 8 (2), pp. 159-164.
  • K.B. Vedamurthy and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2010). “Performance and Competitiveness of India’s Onion Exports”, Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing, vol. 24 (1), pp 86-95.
  • Erenstein, Olaf and Vijay Laxmi (2008). "Zero tillage impacts in India’s rice–wheat systems: A review", Soil & Tillage Research, vol 100, pp 1–14.
  • Vijay Laxmi, and Vinod Mishra. (2007). “Factors affecting adoption of resource conservation technology: Case of zero tillage technology in rice wheat farming systems”, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol 62 (1), pp 126-138.
  • Vijay Laxmi and S. Chandrasekhar. (2006). Awareness of government programmes and perception of people: A case study of three districts of Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 61 (3), p 550 .
  • B.K. Singh and Vijay Laxmi (2003). "Factors Share in Gross Farm Income: An Empirical Investigation in Hazaribag District of Jharkhand State" Agril. Econ. Res. Rev., vol. 16(1), pp 44-49.
  • Jyoti Parikh, Vijay Laxmi, Shyam Karmakar and Pramod Dabrase. (2003). Toll on Human Resources due to Lack of Energy, Water, Sanitation and their Health Impacts in Rural North India. Boiling Point, vol. 49, pp 24 – 27.
  • Vijay Laxmi, Jyoti Parikh, Shyam Karmakar, Pramod Dabrase. (2003). Household Energy, Women’s Hardship and Health Impacts in rural Rajasthan, India: Need for Sustainable Energy Solutions. Energy for Sustainable Development, vol. 7 (1), pp 50 – 68.
  • Kalpana Balakrishana, Jyoti Parikh, Sambandam Sankar, Ramaswamy Padmavathi, Kailasam Srividya, Vidhya Venugopal, Swarna Prasad, Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2002). “Daily average exposure to Respirable Particulate Matter from Combustion of Biomass Fuels in Rural Households of Southern India”. Environmental Health Perspective, vol. 110 (11), pp 1069-1075.
  • Jyoti Parikh, Kalpana Balakrishana, Vijay Laxmi and Haimanti Biswas. (2001). Exposure from Cooking with Biofuels: Pollution Monitoring, and Analysis from Rural Tamil Nadu, India. Energy, vol. 26, pp 949-962.
  • Jyoti and Vijay Laxmi. (2000). Biofuels, Pollution and Health Linkages: A Survey from Rural Tamil Nadu. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 35 (47), pp 4125-4137
  • Jyoti Parikh, and Vijay Laxmi. (2000). Gender and Health Considerations for the Petroleum Product Policy in India. Energia News, vol. 3 (2), pp 11-13.
  • Jyoti Parikh, Kirk Smith, Vijay Laxmi. (1999). Indoor Air Pollution: A Reflection of Gender Bias. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 34 (9), pp. 539-544
  • Vijay Laxmi and V. K. Pandey. (1994). Perspective Planning for Community Forestry Plantation - A Case Study. The Indian Forester, vol. 120 (7), pp. 636- 640.

Book

  • S. Mahendra Dev, A. Ganesh-Kumar, Vijay Laxmi Pandey (eds). 2023. Achieving Zero Hunger in India: Challenges and Policies. Springer Nature; Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics.
  • A. Ganesh-Kumar, Vijay Laxmi Pandey and Bharti Nandwani (eds). 2023. SDGs Amidst Multiple Global Shocks: Challenges and Way Forward. Springer Nature; Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics (Forthcoming).
  • Vijay Laxmi Pandey and S. Chandrasekhar (2009). “Rural Urban Disparity in Maharashtra”. Serials Publication, New Delhi, India, 98p.

Book Chapter

  • K. Saha, Vijay Laxmi Pandey, S. Mahendra Dev (2023). Women’s Land Ownership and Household Decisions: Implications for Child Health in Rural India. In: Tiwari, P., Parikh, K. (eds) Axes of Sustainable Development and Growth in India. Pp 137-169. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9756-3_8
  • S. Mahendra Dev, Vijay Laxmi Pandey, D. Suganthi (2023). Production Diversity and Household Dietary Diversity: Evidence from Bihar and Odisha. In: Practical Economic Analysis and Computation - A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Kirit Parikh, edited by Rajbans Talwar, Probal Ghosh and S.S. Velagapudi. Publisher Springer 
  • S. Mahendra Dev, D. Suganthi, and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2022). Agricultural Diversity and Child Diet Diversity in the Rural Areas of Bihar and Odisha. In India Development Report, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, Ch 8.
  • S. Mahendra Dev and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2021). Dietary Diversification, Nutrition and Food Safety. In: Indian Agriculture Towards 2030: Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems, edited by Ramesh Chand, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Shyam Kadaka. Springer Nature, pp 39-82.
  • D. Suganthi, S. Mahendra Dev, and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2020). Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain. In: Transforming Agriculture in South Asia: The Role of Value Chains and Contract Farming edited by Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and P. K. Joshi. Taylor & Francis Books India Pvt Ltd. Ch 21.
  • S. Mahendra Dev, Vijay Laxmi Pandey and Andaleeb Rehman (2015). “Overview of Food Inflation in India”, in India Development Report, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp. 167-190.
  • S. Mahendra Dev, Srijit Mishra and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2013). “Agriculture in India: Performance, Challenges and Opportunities”, in Handbook of Dynamic Indian Economy, edited by Ashima Goyal, Oxford University Press, pp 641-665.
  • S. Mahendra Dev and Vijay Laxmi Pandey (2013). “Performance and Key Policy Issues of Indian Agriculture”, ” in India Development Report 2012 –13, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp 79-92.
  • Vijay Laxmi (2010). Sustainable management of farm land: A case study from Bihar. In: Dynamics of watershed development and livelihood in India, edited by S.S.P. Sharma and U.H. Kumar, Serials Publications, New Delhi, India, pp 136-158.
  • Vijay Laxmi, O. Erenstein, and R. K. Gupta, (2007). Assessing the Impact of NRMR: The Case of Zero Tillage in India's Rice-Wheat Systems. In: International Research on Natural Resource Management: Advances in Impact Assessment, edited by Hermann Waibel and David Zilberman, Wallingford, UK: FAO and CAB International, Wallingford, UK, pp 68-90.
  • Vijay Laxmi and Raj Gupta. (2006) “Zero tillage for reducing negative environmental impacts: A case study”, in Handbook of Agriculture in India, edited by Shovan Ray, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp 103-108.
  • Jyoti Parikh, Kirit Parikh and Vijay Laxmi. (2004). “Lack of Energy, Water, Sanitation and its Impacts in Rural India” in India Development Report 2004 –05, edited by Kirit S. Parikh, and R Radhakrishna, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp 86-95.
  • Vijay Laxmi, Jyoti Parikh, Kirit S. Parikh. (1997). “Environment: Can Neglect No Longer” in India Development Report edited by Kirit S. Parikh, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India.
  • Vijay Laxmi, and Jyoti Parikh. (1997). “Land Regeneration Programmes: Lessons from Success and Failures”. In Sustainable Regeneration of Degraded.

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  • Principal Investigator: Development of supporting tools (food list coded with FoodEx2 and matched with food composition data) of Bihar-Odisha Integrated Ag-Nutrition Survey. Project supported by FAO. (March 2022- September 2023).
  • Co-investigator: System of Promoting National Dynamism for Agriculture and Nutrition (SPANDAN). Project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (November 2012 - December 2019).
    o Involved in primary survey of around 4000 rural households in Bihar and Odisha.
  • Principal investigator: Impact Assessment of Watershed Development Project Investment. Project funded by Department of Land Resources (February 2011 – August 2011).
  • Co-investigator: Process of Change in Indian Agriculture. Project funded by European Commission. (September 2008 – June 2011)
  • Co-investigator: Effects of Foreign Employment on Poverty, Labour Supply and Agricultural Growth in South Asia: A Case Study of Nepal, India and Bhutan: Project Funded by South Asian Network for Economic Research Institutes. (January 2010 – January 2011)
  • Co-investigator: Sustaining development in Indian states – The role of land, and forests. Project funded by UNDP. (July 2005 – March 2006)
  • Investigator: Growing rural urban disparities in Maharashtra. Project funded by Department of Rural Development, Government of India. (March 2004 – July 2005)
    o Involved in primary survey of 900 rural and urban households in Maharashtra.
  • Investigator: Environmental impact of improved technologies: farm level survey and farmers’ perception on zero tillage, for Roles of Agriculture Project funded by FAO. (July 2002 – December 2003)
    o Involved in primary survey of around 200 farm households in Haryana and Punjab.
  • Co-investigator: Economic analysis of rural pollution and health impacts in Northern India. Funded by World Bank Aided Project of Environmental Economics Research Committee. (September 1999 – June 2003)
    o Involved in primary survey of around 10000 rural households in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan

Markets, Incentives and Agriculture in India

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