naa a22 4500 510806422 CHVBK 20180411083420.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11625-012-0188-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11625-012-0188-y Assessing the impact of policy-driven agricultural practices in Karnataka, India [Elektronische Daten] [Seema Purushothaman, Sheetal Patil, Ierene Francis] The classical approach of assessing sustainability with respect to its three underlying pillars, ecological, economic, and social, is adopted in this paper, with an added emphasis on estimating the simultaneous effects of each pillar on the other two. The paper assesses the impact of policy-driven changes in cultivation practices in five districts in the south-western Indian state of Karnataka. A comparative statics analysis using a simultaneous equations model is developed to capture the stability of each pillar into the future and their concurrent interactive impacts and trade-offs. Ecological and economic impacts of policies favoring organic farming are estimated to be uniformly significant and positive in the study districts. However, the impact on socio-cultural criteria is subjective to the eco-regional context. Cost savings, through producing organic inputs on-farm, maximizes synchrony among the three pillars vis-à-vis sourcing these inputs from the market. With more reliance on organic inputs, better prospects are estimated for small and rain-fed farms compared to large and irrigated farms. Springer, 2012 Sustainability impact assessment nationallicence Small-scale farming nationallicence Farmers' distress nationallicence Comparative statics analysis nationallicence Simultaneous equations model nationallicence Ex-ante assessment nationallicence Purushothaman Seema Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut Patil Sheetal Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut Francis Ierene Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 173-185 1862-4065 8:2<173 2013 8 11625 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-012-0188-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-012-0188-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Purushothaman Seema Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Patil Sheetal Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Francis Ierene Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 173-185 1862-4065 8:2<173 2013 8 11625 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer