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Chapter 1 Introduction: Young people's pathways into farming, Sharada Srinivasan, Ben White -- Chapter 2 "Passion alone is not sufficient": What do we know about young farmers in Canada?, Joshua Nasielski, Sharada Srinivasan, Travis Jansen, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi -- Chapter 3 "Regenerating" agriculture: Becoming a young farmer in Manitoba, Canada, Hannah Jess Bihun, Annette Aurélie Desmarais -- Chapter 4 Impervious odds and complicated legacies: Young people's pathways into farming in Ontario, Canada Becoming a young farmer, Ontario, Travis Jansen, Sharada Srinivasan, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi -- Chapter 5 Young farmers and the dynamics of agrarian transition in China, Lu Pan -- Chapter 6 Young farmers' difficulties and adaptations in agriculture: A case study from a mountainous town in Sichuan province, Southwest China, Dong Liang, Lu Pan -- Chapter 7 Young farmers in a 'cucumber village': A different story of family farming in agricultural specialization from Hebei province, Lu Pan -- Chapter 8 The youth dividend and agricultural revival in India, Sudha Narayanan, M. Vijayabaskar, Sharada Srinivasan -- Chapter 9 Becoming/being a young farmer in a fast-transitioning region: The case of Tamil Nadu, M. Vijayabaskar, Radha Varadarajan -- Chapter 10 "I had to bear this burden": Youth transcending constraints to become farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, Sudha Narayanan -- Chapter 11 Youth and agriculture in Indonesia, Aprilia Ambarwati, Charina Chazali, Isono Sadoko, Ben White -- Chapter 12 Young farmers' access to land: Gendered pathways into and out of farming in Nigara and Langkap, West Manggarai, Indonesia, Charina Chazali, Aprilia Ambarwati, Roy Huijsmans, Ben White -- Chapter 13 The long road to becoming a farmer in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia, Aprilia Ambarwati, Charina Chazali -- Chapter 14 Pluriactive and plurilocal: Young people's pathways out of and into farming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Ben White, Hanny Wijaya -- Chapter 15 Conclusion: Youth aspirations, trajectories, and farming futures, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Roy Huijsmans.

The Power of Information -- Of Frameworks, Methods and Sites -- Framing Information: Origins and Conceptions -- Politics Denied: Constructing Efficient Markets with Mobile Phones and Price Information -- Politics Bracketed: Crafting Informed Citizens at Village Information Centers -- Politics Made Explicit: Creating an Accountable State with Right to Information Campaigns -- Understanding Information with Information Orders -- The Political Lives of Information.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- What Are Business Models? -- Models -- Business Models -- Platform Business Models -- Single- and Multi-sided Platforms -- Network Effects -- Platforms Make Markets Efficient -- Platform Roles -- Platforms as Networks -- Complementarity, Compatibility, and Standards -- Consumption Externalities -- Switching Costs and Lock-In -- Significant Economies of Scale -- Platforms as Ecosystems -- Key Platform Decisions -- 2 GRAB.in™: Enabling Hyperlocal -- Introduction -- Grab's Journey -- Grab.In Business Model -- The B2B Switch -- Platform Architecture-Hot Spots and Bikers -- Pricing Model and Unit Economics -- First Mover Advantage -- Delivery Challenges -- Multi-homing -- Diverse Perspectives -- Musings from the Delivery Team -- Operations Behold! -- Powering Technology -- Investments into Grab.in -- Competitive Topography -- Shadowfax -- Dependo.com -- Ekart Logistics -- ElasticRun -- Hyperlocal Aspirations -- Road Ahead -- 3 Network Effects -- Externalities, Network Externalities, and Network Effects -- Defining Network Effects -- Same-Side and Cross-Side Network Effects -- Positive and Negative Network Effects -- Properties of Network Effects -- Strength of Network Effects -- Direction of Network Effects -- Nonlinearity of Network Effects -- Leveraging Networks for Growth -- Coring -- Tipping -- Products, Services, and Platforms -- 4 Faircent™: Powering P2P Lending Revolution -- Introduction -- Faircent's Journey -- Funding Support -- Regulatory Rigmarole -- Shrinkage of Competition -- Faircent Business Model -- Platform Architecture-Lenders and Borrowers -- Pricing Model -- Handling Investment Risks -- First Mover Advantage -- Monetizing Faircent Stack, Open APIs, and Developer Ecosystem -- Competitive Topography -- Lending Club -- PayTM Micro-finance Platform.

Why, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts, do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans? This book explains the paradoxical role of international peacemaking in the reproduction of violence and political authoritarianism in Sudan and South Sudan. Sharath Srinivasan charts the destructive effects of the peace process, from the role of north-south negotiations in fuelling war in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile to the failure of the political transformation promised by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

What explains the peculiar trajectory of the university and liberal education in India? Can we understand the crisis in the university in terms of the idea of education underlying it? This book explores these vital questions and traces the intellectual history of the idea of education and the cluster of concepts associated with it. It probes into the cultural roots of liberal education and seeks to understand its scope, effects and limits when transplanted into the Indian context. With an extensive analysis of the philosophical writing on the idea of university and education in the West and colonial documents on education in India, the book reconstructs the ideas of Gandhi and Tagore on education and learning as a radical alternative to the inherited, European model. The author further reflects upon how we can successfully deepen liberal education in India as well as construct alternative models that will help us diversify higher learning for future generations. Lucid, extensive and of immediate interest, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers interested in the history and philosophy of education and culture, social epistemology, ethics, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and public policy.

In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to re-consider 'whose global village' we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to re-imagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspective of diverse cultures. Such collaborations can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide. Whose Global Village seeks to inspire professionals, activists, and scholars alike to think about technology in a way that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins. We can then start to visualize a world where technologies serve diverse communities rather than just the Western consumer