Resultados de búsqueda - "Bihar"

Challenges in implementing India’s Aadhaar-enabled fertilizer management system por Singh, Vartika, Ward, Patrick S., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Rice Research Institute

“…Digitizing purchases would also allow inventories to be managed better and the system’s demand prediction ability to be improved, given that most of the annual demand is concentrated into 3–4 months....This evaluation of the implementation processes across the states of Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh provides an opportunity to make significant recommendations and feedback to policy makers and implementers at the state and central level to influence and enhance its chances for success.…”
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Strategic change in Indian irrigation por Svendsen, Mark, Gulati, Ashok

“…Svendsen -- Adequacy and timeliness of irrigation supplies under conjunctive use in the Sone Irrigation System, Bihar / Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- Coping with drought-induced water scarcity in large irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu / L.P. …”
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Benchmarking Solar Pump Performance: Off-Grid Solar Irrigation Pumps in Eastern and Central India por Verma, Shilp, Kuriachen, Philip, Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, Sharma, Laxmi, Basu, Subhodeep, Usadadia, Nikunj

“…The study covered approximately 300 solar irrigation systems in Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh), Samastipur and Muzaffarpur (north Bihar), and East Singbhum (Jharkhand) to document usage patterns, irrigated area, revenue generation, equity of access, and operational efficiency. …”
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Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure por International Water Management Institute

“…spread across Rajasthan, South Bihar, Madya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and other South Asian locations such as Sri Lanka?…”
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Using information and communication technologies to disseminate and exchange agriculture-related climate information in the Indo-Gangetic Plains por Craufurd, Peter Q., Balaji, V.

“…The analysis covers four countries across the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP): Bangladesh, India (Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal States), Nepal (Terai Region), and Pakistan (Punjab Province). …”
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Annual report 2017: CGIAR Research Program on Wheat por CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

“…For 2017, WHEAT can demonstrate clear actual or potential outcomes benefiting the poorest in remote areas in Afghanistan, based on 15 years of collaboration with NARS, in Ethiopia (emergency seed supply), as well as in India’s Bihar state and in Pakistan - based on large, multi-year programs (Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia Phases I – III & Agriculture Innovation Project, respectively) – see sections 1.3.3 and 1.2 under FP4.…”
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Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India por Hoffmann, Vivian, Rao, Vijayendra, Surendra, Vaishnavi, Datta, Upamanyu

“…Using a randomized program rollout over 180 panchayats, we evaluate the impact of a government-led SHG initiative in the Indian state of Bihar. Two years after the start of the program, we find a dramatic increase in SHG membership, borrowing from SHGs, and a corresponding decline in the use of informal credit. …”
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Economic implications of agricultural water use in eastern India por Xenarios, Stefanos, Amarasinghe, Upali A., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…This paper assesses irrigation water costs in representative backward clusters of Bihar state in eastern India while the effects on different landholding groups are analysed. …”
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Mobile-based climate services impact on farmers risk management ability in India por Mittal, Surabhi, Hariharan, Vinod K.

“…The climate service advisory was piloted in two states of India – Haryana and Bihar – covering 46 villages. Households were randomly selected in these villages to receive voice-based messages on individual farmers’ mobile phones during the project period 2013–2015. …”
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Adoption of food safety practices in milk production: Implications for dairy farmers in India por Kumar, Anjani, Wright, Iain A., Singh, D.K.

“…The study is based on the cross section primary data collected at the farm level in 3 states of India, namely, Bihar, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, in the year 2007. …”
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Project completion report: Scaling up resilient agricultural practices, technologies and services in the vulnerable areas of India por Chanana, Nitya, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Pimpale, Anil, Joshi, Rajashree, Saini, Sakshi, Shirsath, Paresh Bhaskar, Joshi, Arun Kumar, Aggarwal, Pramod K.

“…The project demonstrated a portfolio of climate resilient technologies, practices and services in 75 villages of Uttar Pradesh (Mathura district), Bihar (Nalanda district) and Madhya Pradesh (Betul district). …”
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Using microsatellite data to estimate the persistence of field‑level yield gaps and their drivers in smallholder systems por Paliwal, Ambica, Balwinder-Singh, Poonia, S., Jain, M.

“…Here we use microsatellite data to map field-level yields from 2014 to 2018 in Bihar, India and use these data to assess the magnitude, persistence, and drivers of yield gaps at the landscape scale. …”
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Community interventions with women’s groups to improve women’s and children’s health in India: A mixed-methods systematic review of effects, enablers and barriers por Desai, Sapna, Misra, Madhavi, Das, Aikantika, Singh, Roopal Jyoti, Sehgal, Mrignyani, Gram, Lu, Kumar, Neha, Prost, Audrey

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Summary of the agro-ecological and socio-economic context for the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) por Pede, Valerien, Ward, Patrick S., Spielman, David J., Paris, Thelma R.

“…In all, the baseline household survey collected data on 2,628 households across the CSISA hub domains of Haryana, Punjab, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu in India; Dinajpur and Gazipur in Bangladesh; and the Terai region of central Nepal.…”
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Exploration of economic and environmental impacts of sustainable diversification in the eastern IGP of India por Choudhary, K.M., Kalvania, K.C., Ali, Shahid, Sinha, Pooja, Kumar, Sanjeev, Jat, R.K., Bijarniya, Deepak, Krupnik, Timothy J., Gathala, Mahesh K.

“…These on-farm research trials were conducted by the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) Initiative with the partnership of CGIAR Institutes, JEEViKA, and the Department of Agriculture in Nalanda district of Bihar, India.…”
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The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: a feminist intersectional approach por Ravera, F., Martín López, B., Pascual, U., Drucker, Adam G.

“…Based on results from contrasting research cases in Bihar and Uttarakhand, India, this paper demonstrates, inter alia, that there are geographically determined gendered preferences and adoption strategies regarding adaptation options and that these are influenced by the socio-ecological context and institutional dynamics. …”
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Comparisons of hunger across states: India State Hunger Index por Menon, Purnima, Deolalikar, Anil B., Bhaskar, Anjor

“…For instance, Bihar and Jharkhand rank lower than Zimbabwe and Haiti, whereas Madhya Pradesh falls between Ethiopia and Chad. …”
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Making index-based flood insurance socially inclusive in Bangladesh: challenges and options por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…The Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) project of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) hopes to adapt the pilot scheme it is trialling in Bihar, India, to Bangladesh. To understand how such a scheme can be made accessible, especially to marginal groups, fieldwork was undertaken in Sirajganj district. …”
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CCAFS Climate-Smart Village Approach: Is CSA practice testing linked to climate services delivery? por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Borne out of India’s states of Punjab and Bihar (CCAFS Annual Report 2011), this new concept started in 2012, and stresses aspects related to: the multi-stakeholder partnership involved, the focus on maximizing synergies across a portfolio of tailored technical and institutional climate-smart agricultural interventions and the need to associate local innovation with scaling-up processes. …”
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Farmers’ perspectives as determinants for adoption of conservation agriculture practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India por Mishra, Ajay Kumar, Shinjo, Hitoshi, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Jat, Mangi Lal, Jat, Raj Kumar, Funakawa, Shinya, Sutaliya, Jhabar Mal

“…The objective of this study was to investigate the biophysical, socio-economic, and technical constraints in the adoption of CA by farmers in the Western- and Eastern-IGP, i.e., Karnal, Haryana, and Samastipur, Bihar, respectively. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was administered to 50 households practicing CA in Western- and Eastern-IGP. …”
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