Kanzara
A longitudinal village study site in Maharashtra.
Kanzara is a village in the Akola district of Maharashtra, in India's semi-arid tropics. It is one of the villages in ICRISAT's Village Level Studies (VLS) — among the longest-running household panels in the developing world, tracking rural life since the mid-1970s. FieldVista's research builds on that legacy through three resurvey waves (2007, 2013, and 2022), following the same households and their social and economic networks over time to understand how agrarian life changes across generations.
- Location
- Akola district, Maharashtra (semi-arid tropics)
- Lineage
- ICRISAT Village Level Studies (VLS), since the 1970s
- Resurvey waves
- 2007, 2013, 2022
Research from Kanzara
Farm Size & Productivity
Four decades of village data (1975–2014) on the farm size–productivity relationship.
Read moreSocial Networks
How credit, information, and labour networks evolve across the three panel waves.
Read moreInformal Credit & Identity
How caste and social identity shape informal credit networks and risk sharing.
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