Search Results - India–Pakistan relations

Agricultural productivity growth in Pakistan and India: a comparative analysis by Rosegrant, Mark W., Evenson, Robert E.

“…Estimates of partial factor productivity growth for rice and wheat in India and Pakistan have shown relatively rapid growth in yields per hectare since adoption of modem rice and wheat varieties began in the mid-to-Iate 1960s [Byerlee (1990); Rosegrant (1991)]. …”
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Availability of data on agrobiodiversity in South Asia: A report on data availability for Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan by Kamal, Mustafa, Faisal, Asif Al, Druti, Baishakhee Pashari, Chakraborty, Shreya, Laing, Alison, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Here we present a summary of public data availability for agrobiodiversity-related indicators of regional agrifood systems. Data have been drawn from surveys, reports and censuses in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. …”
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Availability of data on diets in South Asia: A data availability assessment for Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan by Scott, Samuel P., Neupane, Sumanta, Menon, Purnima, Kishore, Avinash, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…ABOUT THIS NOTE This research note presents findings on the availability of diet-related data in publicly available population-based surveys conducted in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan in the last decade. …”
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Both quantity and quality of antenatal care matter for child birthweight: An analysis of nationally representative data From Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan by Neupane, Sumanta, Scott, Samuel P., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Menon, Purnima

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Using information and communication technologies to disseminate and exchange agriculture-related climate information in the Indo-Gangetic Plains by Craufurd, Peter Q., Balaji, V.

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Government and rural transformation: Role of public spending and policies in Bangladesh by Mudahar, Mohinder S., Ahmed, Raisuddin

“…The British finally granted independence to India in 1947 but the British India was divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan, in the acrimonious process of granting independence. …”
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Adoption and impacts of zero tillage as a resource conserving technology in the irrigated plains of South Asia by Erenstein, Olaf, Farooq, U., Malik, R.K., Sharif, M.

“…Our findings suggest that there is no clear single overarching constraint but that a combination of factors is at play, including technology performance, technology access, seasonal constraints and, particularly in the case of Punjab, Pakistan, the institutional ZT controversy. In terms of technology performance, the relative ZT yield was particularly influential: dis-adopters of ZT reporting low ZT yields as a major contributor to farmer disillusionment in Punjab, Pakistan and the lack of a significant yield effect in Haryana, India. …”
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Role of technology as an enabler for gender empowerment: Evidence from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan by Begum, Khadija

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Adapting to melting glaciers : how Western Himalayan societies frame climate change and adaptation by Anis, Taha

“…In order to do this, 10 interviews were conducted in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region while a month was spent in the field observing participants and their understanding of identity, power, and knowledge in relation to climate change adaptation. …”

The realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basins by Villholth, Karen G., Mukherji, Aditi, Sharma, Bharat R., Wang, J.

“…The results show a general over-exploitation of groundwater resources in Pakistan, western India, and China and relative under-utilization in eastern India and Bangladesh. …”
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Early marriage and early childbearing in South Asia: Trends, inequalities, and drivers from 2005 to 2018 by Scott, Samuel P., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Neupane, Sumanta, Pramanik, Priyanjana, Nanda, Priya, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Afsana, Kaosar, Menon, Purnima

“…We find that EM/ECB are still common in Bangladesh (69%/69%), Nepal (52%/51%), India (41%/39%), and Pakistan (37%/38%), with large subnational variation in most countries. …”
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Malaria vectors in the changing environment of the southern Punjab, Pakistan by Klinkenberg, Eveline, Konradsen, Flemming, Herrel, N., Mukhtar, M., Hoek, Wim van der, Amerasinghe, Felix P.

“…Since the 1980s, however, malaria has been at a low ebb, while in other areas of Pakistan and neighbouring India malaria is on the increase. …”
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Lessons from a stocktaking evaluation of IFPRI’s experience with country programs by Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Tollens, Eric

“…Initially this was done on a relatively small and ad-hoc basis in Bangladesh (1992–94), Pakistan (1985–86), Malawi (1989–94), and Mozambique (1996–99), but in 2003 IFPRI began establishing country-based teams to support the development of broader policies and national strategies related to agriculture, food, and poverty. …”
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Are data available for tracking progress on nutrition policies, programs, and outcomes in Pakistan? by Neupane, Sumanta, Jangid, Manita, Scott, Samuel P., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Kim, Sunny S., Murira, Zivai, Torlesse, Harriet, Menon, Purnima

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Agronomic biofortification of genetically biofortified wheat genotypes with zinc, selenium, iodine, and iron under field conditions by Ram, Hari, Naeem, Asif, Rashid, Abdul, Kaur, Charanjeet, Ashraf, Muhammad Y., Sudeep Singh Malik, Aslam, Muhammad, Mavi, Gurvinder S., Yusuf Tutus, Yazici, Mustafa A., Govindan, Velu, Cakmak, Ismail

“…However, genetic biofortification alone may not achieve desirable concentrations of micronutrients for human nutrition due to several soil- and plant-related factors. This study investigated the response of genetically biofortified high-Zn wheat genotypes to soil-applied Zn and foliarly applied Zn, I, and Se in India and Pakistan. …”
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Environmental services and agricultural water in South Asia: evidence from Indo-Gangetic Basin by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Singh, A.

“…preferences towards the economic value rendered to environmental services related with agricultural water. The research is based on an extensive survey in selected clusters of India, Pakistan and Nepal. …”
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Assessing institutional and environmental parameters of agricultural water use in South Asia: evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Basin by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R.

“…However, low agricultural productivity is observed in the four riparian countries - India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh - by nailing down rural welfare. …”
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Are wheat-based farming systems in South Asia feminizing? by Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Badstue, Lone B., Roeven, Lara, Bharati, Preeti, Rahman, Siddiqur, Petesch, Patti, Jafry, Tahseen

“…This article pulls together the state of knowledge on the degree to which wheat-based systems in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, are feminizing. It is not yet possible to make definitive statements. …”
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The use of remote sensing data for drought assessment and monitoring in southwest Asia by Thenkabail, Prasad S., Gamage, M.S.D.Nilantha, Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…This report describes the development of the near real-time drought monitoring and reporting system for the region, which currently includes Afghanistan, Pakistan and western parts of India. The system is based on drought-related indices derived from high-resolution remote-sensing data (MODIS). …”
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Is greater decisionmaking power of women associated with reduced gender discrimination in South Asia? by Smith, Lisa C., Byron, Elizabeth

“…To investigate this issue, the study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data collected during the 1990s in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The main empirical technique employed is multivariate regression analysis with statistical tests for significant differences in effects for girl and boy children. …”
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