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Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resources for CGIAR Scientists and Partners from Near East and Neighbouring Countries, 17 - 20 September 2018, ICARDA, Beirut, Lebanon by CGIAR Genebank Platform

“…This event brought together 20 staff members from 6 CGIAR Centres (including genebank managers and technical staff, plant breeders, senior scientists, legal counselor and genetic resources policy specialists), 16 representatives of national agricultural research organizations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, and representatives of the Secretariats of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the coordination team of the Global Project on Access and Benefit Sharing of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). …”
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Advancing climate services in South Asia by Daron, J., Soares, M. B., Janes, T., Colledge, F., Srinivasan, G., Agarwal, A., Hewitt, C., Richardson, K., Nepal, Santosh, Shrestha, M. S., Rasul, G., Suckall, N., Harrison, B., Oakes, R. L., Corbelli, D.

“…ARRCC aims to strengthen climate resilience in South Asia through co-producing weather and climate services, building institutional capacities, and enhancing coordination across the region and in focal countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. We identify what is working well and challenges that remain in the provision and uptake of climate services, focusing on examples of applying seasonal forecasts, sea-level rise projections, and extreme rainfall information for hydropower decisions. …”
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Variable climate suitability for wheat blast (Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum) in Asia: results from a continental-scale modeling approach by Montes, Carlos, Hussain, Sk. Ghulam, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Cold/dry conditions in countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan appear to render them unlikely candidates for MOT establishment. …”
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Asia-wide impacts of COVID-19 on national food systems and recovery paths by Piñeiro, Valeria, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…Conflict was a major factor in Afghanistan and Myanmar, while North Korea did not suffer any registered COVID cases, and its woes were internal. …”
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Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement? by Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Mitra, Arun, Salman, Afsah, Akbari, Fawad, Dalil, Suraya, Menon, Purnima

“…Longstanding border disputes (such as between India and China and the decades-old standoff between India and Pakistan), the forced displacement of Myanmar Muslims to Bangladesh, and the 2021 rise of the Taliban triggering a mass exodus of professionals and educated women from Afghanistan underscore the enormous volatility and unpredictability of the region. …”
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Prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in South Asian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Ali, Masum, Alam, Md Mahbub, Rifat, M. A., Simi, Sonjida Mesket, Sarwar, Sneha, Amin, Md Ruhul, Saha, Sanjib

“…Method A systematic literature review and meta-analysis is performed to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Afghanistan using studies based on only the nationally representative surveys and published from 2012 until June 2024. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 2A: Data systems at scale: Strengthening infrastructure, quality, & use by Purushotham, Anjali, Sivaramakrishnan, Divya, Hossain, Rakib, Manohar, Swetha, Azimi, Said M Yaqoob, Phanwar, La-in Shap

“…Presentation 4: Measuring Inequalities in Co-Coverage of Multi-Sector Nutrition Interventions: Findings from Bangladesh’s One Nutrition Coverage Survey by Swetha Manohar. Presentation 5: Afghanistan’s Community Nutrition Sentinel Sites (CNSS): A Model for Crisis-Responsive Surveillance by Said M. …”
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Assessment of Vitamin D status and association with inflammation: Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) project by Young, Melissa F., Ou, Jiangda, Duong, Cam, Luo, Hanqi, Beyh, Yara S., Meng, Jiawei, Gernand, Alison D., Roth, Daniel E., Suchdev, Parminder S.

“…Methods We analyzed cross-sectional data from 6 nationally representative nutrition surveys (Afghanistan, Cambodia, Pakistan, UK, USA, and Vietnam) conducted among PSC (n = 9880) and FRA (n = 14,749) from the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia project. …”
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Application of Eight-step Methodology for Reviving Springs and Improving Springshed Management in the Mid-hills of Nepal. by Shrestha, R., Desai, J., Mukherji, A., Dhakal, M., Kulkarni, H., Acharya, S.

“…The drying of springs, which comes with its own set of consequences, is a regional phenomenon that cuts across the HKH – from Afghanistan all the way to Myanmar. A few local and national organizations have started scientific studies and policy advocacy on springs, but more needs to done, especially given the extent of the problem and its regional and local dimensions. …”
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Hägnutnyttjande hos persisk leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) by Svensson, Hanna

“…Den persiska leoparden är vanligast i Iran men finns också i mindre populationer i Afghanistan, Turkmenistan och Armenien. Den persiska leoparden klassificeras som en utrotningshotad art av IUCN och av de åtta identifierade underarter av leopard som finns i världen, är den sällsynta persiska leoparden en av de fysiskt största. …”
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Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: A systematic review of the distribution in East, Southeast and South Asia by Eichenberger, R.M., Thomas, Lian F., Gabriël, S., Bobić, B., Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Robertson, L.J., Saratsis, A., Torgerson, Paul R., Braae, U.C., Dermauw, Veronique, Dorny, P.

“…Results The presence of T. saginata was described in 15 of 27 countries of the region, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. …”
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Evaluation of GRACE derived groundwater storage changes in different agro-ecological zones of the Indus Basin by Akhtar, F., Nawaz, R. A., Hafeez, Mohsin, Awan, Usman Khalid, Borgemeister, C., Tischbein, B.

“…To capture this heterogeneity at the IB, the two different agro-ecological zones were selected: i) the Kabul River Basin (KRB), Afghanistan, and ii) the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC) command area in Pakistan. …”
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Coupling remote sensing and hydrological model for evaluating the impacts of climate change on streamflow in data-scarce environment by Akhtar, F., Awan, Usman Khalid, Borgemeister, C., Tischbein, B.

“…The Kabul River Basin (KRB) in Afghanistan is densely inhabited and heterogenic. The basin’s water resources are limited, and climate change is anticipated to worsen this problem. …”
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Assessing the vulnerability of national food security to international food price shocks: A new index by Minot, Nicholas, Vos, Rob, Kim, Soonho, Park, Beyeong, Zaki, Sediqa, Mamboundou, Pierre

“…Yemen, Djibouti, and Afghanistan are most vulnerable to increases in world wheat prices, while Liberia, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau are particularly vulnerable to spikes in rice prices. …”
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Food acquisition, preparation, and consumption practices in South Asia: A scoping review of assessment tools by Patwardhan, Sharvari, Boncyk, Morgan, Avula, Rasmi, Blake, Christine E., Akter, Fahmida, Das, Jai K., Silva, Renuka, Menon, Purnima, Scott, Samuel P.

“…We undertook systematic keyword searches of three databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science Core Collection) to identify studies assessing food acquisition, food preparation, and household consumption practices in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, published in English between 2000 and April 2025. …”
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Soil erosion and sediment load management strategies for sustainable irrigation in arid regions by Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif, Ashraf, M., Anwar, Arif A.

“…Soil erosion is a serious environmental issue in the Gomal River catchment shared by Pakistan and Afghanistan. The river segment between the Gomal Zam dam and a diversion barrage (~40 km) brings a huge load of sediments that negatively affects the downstream irrigation system, but the sediment sources have not been explored in detail in this sub-catchment. …”
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2019 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions by Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob

“…The worst food crises in 2018 were, in order of severity, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, South Sudan and northern Nigeria. …”
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Burkina Faso: Comment les systèmes alimentaires peuvent survivre aux conflits by Bene, Christophe

“…Au cours des dernière années, les conflits armés ont été à l’origine de six des dix crises alimentaires le plus sévères – en République démocratique du Congo, au Yémen, en Afghanistan, en Syrie, au Nigeria et au Soudan du Sud. …”
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Assessing the hidden burden and costs of COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia: Implications for health and well-being of women, children and adolescents by Owais, Aatekah, Rizvi, Arjumand, Jawwad, Muhammad, Horton, Susan, Das, Jai K., Merritt, Catherine, Moreno, Ralfh, Asfaw, Atnafu G., Rutter, Paul, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Menon, Purnima, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.

“…We collected data from administrative health information systems in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), to determine essential health services coverage disruptions between January–December 2020, and January–June 2021, compared to the same calendar months in 2019, and estimated the impact of this disruption on maternal and child mortality using the Lives Saved Tool. …”
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South Asia's ecosystems are a net carbon sink, but the region is a major net GHG source to the atmosphere by Jain, A. K., Seshadri, S., Anand, J., Chandra, N., Patra, P. K., Canadell, J. G., Chhabra, A., Ciais, P., Gilani, Hammad, Gumma, M. K., Kondo, M., Lokupitiya, E., Pan, N., Shrestha, H. L., Siddiqui, B. N., Tian, H., Tiwari, Y. K.

“…As part of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes‐2 (RECCAP‐2) project of the Global Carbon Project, here we estimate the GHG budgets (anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks) for the South Asia (SA) region as a whole and each country (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) for the decade of 2010–2019 (2010s). …”
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