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Integrated assessment of meso-level watershed development: progress of an integrated evaluation project in Andhra Pradesh by Syme, G.J., Croke, B.F.W., Ratna Reddy, V., Ranjan, R., Samad, Madar, Pavelic, Paul, Herron, N., Rao, K.V., Ahmed, S.

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Community-driven water investments. [Abstract only]. by van Koppen, Barbara, Munnik, V.

“…This appeared to be the case, for example, in India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. …”
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Improving agricultural productivity for poverty alleviation through integrated service provision with public-private sector partnerships: examples and issues by Hussain, Intizar, Perera, L.R.

“…Based on examples of various models, initiatives and practices from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, China, Sub-Saharan Mrica and other countries, the study suggests a framework for integrated services provision in the agriculture sector, and raises key research issues and questions to be explored.…”
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An integrated hydro-economic modelling framework to evaluate water allocation strategies I: model development by George, B.A., Malano, H.M.M., Davidson, B., Hellegers, Petra J.G.J., Bharati, Luna, Massuel, S.

“…The framework outlined in this paper was applied to the Musi sub-basin located in the Krishna Basin, India. In applying this framework it was concluded that competition for Musi water is very high, the transfer of water from agriculture to urban users is likely to grow in future and the value of water used in different agricultural zones is very low.…”
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Simulation of resource-conserving technologies on productivity, income and greenhouse gas GHG emission in rice-wheat system by Saharawat, Yashpal S., Ladha, Jagdish Kumar, Pathak, Himanshu, Gathala M, Chaudhary, N., Jat, Mangi Lal

“…The Rice-wheat (RW) cropping system is one of the major agricultural production systems in four Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal of South Asia covering about 32% of the total rice area and 42% of the total wheat area. …”
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Sustainable intensification?: Implications for the emergence of diseases by Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K., Unger, Fred, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“… • Countries most at risk for disease emergence from livestock intensification were India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China. …”
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Assessing impact of flood on river dynamics and susceptible regions: geomorphometric analysis by Sharma, C.S., Mishra, Atmaram, Panda, S.N.

“…Similar was the case in Gujarat State, India during last week of June 2005. This study is about assessing the impact of Gujarat flood on river dynamics. …”
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Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals by Boeckel, Thomas P. van, Brower, C., Gilbert, M., Grenfell, B.T., Levin, S.A., Robinson, Timothy P., Teillant, A., Laxminarayan, R.

“…Up to a third of the increase in consumption in livestock between 2010 and 2030 is imputable to shifting production practices in middle-income countries where extensive farming systems will be replaced by large-scale intensive farming operations that routinely use antimicrobials in subtherapeutic doses. For Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the increase in antimicrobial consumption will be 99%, up to seven times the projected population growth in this group of countries. …”
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Quality and safety improvements in informal milk markets and implications for food safety policy by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Deka, Ram Pratim, Lindahl, Johanna F., Grace, Delia

“…Milk marketing in Assam, NE India remains predominantly in the informal sector; there is also growing concern among consumers about the purity and quality of milk marketed by informal milk vendors and the possible health risk posed by it. …”
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Preparing potato for climate change: Breeding, selection and efficient use of genetic resources for abiotic stress by Amoros, W., Cabello, R., Gutiérrez, R., Kadian, M.S., Carli, C., Salas, E., Munive, S., Bonierbale, Merideth W.

“…More than 300 clones and selected progenies were evaluated under water-limiting and high temperature conditions in the desertic coast of Peru and in India, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Elite clones with high yield indexes and superior progenitors of stress tolerance were identified and information incorporated for collaborative breeding across environments. …”
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Estimation of variance components of milk yield and genetic evaluation of Sahiwal cattle using mixed linear models by Kumar, A., Gandhi, R.S., Haile, Aynalem

“…First lactation 305 days milk yield (FL305DMY) records (2032) on Sahiwal cows, maintained at 3 different farms in India were analyzed to estimate the impact of direct additive genetic, maternal additive genetic and cow’s permanent environmental effects on milk yield and to compare sire model (BLUP) with 3 different animal models i.e. simple univariate model (AM I), univariate model with maternal effect and cow’s permanent environmental effect (AM II) and multivariate model (AM III) of sire evaluation. …”
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Impact of rainfall change on the agro-ecological regions of Sri Lanka by Muthuwatta, Lal P., Liyanage, Panni Kankanamlage Nirosha Chandani

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Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot allocation program by Santos, Florence, Fletschner, Diana, Savath, Vivien, Peterman, Amber

“…This study evaluates the impact of India’s land-allocation and registration program in West Bengal, a program that targets poor populations and promotes the inclusion of women’s names on land titles. …”
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Climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and economic profitability of conservation agriculture: Some examples from cereal systems of Indo-Gangetic Plains by Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Jat, Mangi Lal, Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash, Jat, Kumar Raj, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun

“…Achieving sustainability of the cereal system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India under progressive climate change and variability necessitates adoption of practices and technologies that increase food production, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable way. …”
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On-farm conservation of tropical fruit tree diversity: roles and motivations of custodian farmers and emerging threats and challenges by Sthapit, B.R., Vasudeva, R., Rajan, S., Sripinta, P., Reddy, B.M.C., Arsanti, I.W., Idris, S., Lamers, H., Ramanatha Rao, V.

“…The study was conducted in 36 communities of India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to find out why some farmers do maintain rich fruit tree diversity whereas many do not. …”
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Crop coefficients of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) and Pongamia (Pongamia pinnata) using water balance approach by Garg, Kaushal K., Wani, S.P., Rao, A.V.R.K

“…Temporal data on soil moisture at different depths in block plantations of Jatropha and Pongamia at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) farm, Patancheru in India, were collected at 15 days interval between 2007 and 2010. …”
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Prioritizing climate-smart agricultural land use options at a regional scale by Shirsath, Paresh Bhaskar, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Thornton, Philip K., Dunnett, Alex

“…The application of this approach is illustrated for prioritizing agronomic interventions that can enhance productivity and incomes, help farmers adapt to current risk, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in current and future climates for the flood- and drought-prone state of Bihar in north-eastern India. In general, climate smartness increases with advanced technologies. …”
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Feed supply-demand databases as decision making tools for prioritizing livestock interventions to close yield gaps and reduce negative environmental foot prints by Blümmel, Michael, Haileslassie, Amare, Samireddypalle, A., Herrero, Mario, Ramana Reddy, Y., Mayberry, D.

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Integrated action planning for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of highland aquatic resources: evaluating outcomes for the Beijiang River, China by Bunting, S.W., Luo, S., Cai, K., Kundu, N., Lund, S., Mishra, R., Ray, D., Smith, K.G., Sugden, Fraser

“…A re ective account is given of integrated action planning from ve sites in China, India and Vietnam. Eight planning phases are described encompassing: stakeholder assessment and partner selection; rapport building and agreement on collaboration; integrated biodiversity, ecosystem services, livelihoods and policy assessment; problem analysis and target setting; strategic planning; planning and organisation of activities; coordinated implementation and monitoring; evaluation and revised target setting. …”
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Sensory evaluation of upland rice varieties with farmers: A case study by Singh, R.K., Prasad, Kameshwari, Mandal, Nimai Prasas, Singh, Rama Kant, Courtois, Brigitte, Singh, Virendra Pal, Paris, T.R.

“…As part of a participatory plant-breeding project with methodological objectives lo improve rainfed rice in eastern India, an evaluation of sensory characteristics was conducted with farmers in a village of Bihar. …”
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