Search Results - "India"

From waste to managed waste facility and compost for farming: The role of women movement in urban villages in Bali, Indonesia by Utomo, Marcellinus Mandira Budi, Pieter, Levina Augusta Geraldine, Kusumawati, Dewi, Putra, Hermitianta P.

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Game-Changing Innovations for Food System Transformation: Evidence on Women’s Inclusion in Livestock Vaccines Systems in Northern Ghana by Njiru, Nelly, Galiè, Alessandra, Omondi, Immaculate A., Omia, Dalmas, Loriba, Agnes, Awin, Peter

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Antenatal care is associated with adherence to iron supplementation among pregnant women in selected low-middle-income-countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America & the Caribbean... by Karyadi, Elvina, Reddy, J. C., Dearden, Kirk A., Purwanti, Tutut, Asri, Eriana, Roquero, Loreto B., Juguan, Jocelyn A., Sapitula-Evidente, Anjali, Alam, M. K., Das, Susmita, Nair, Gopa K., Srivastava, Anuj, Raut, Manoj K.

“…Receiving at least four antenatal care visits was significantly associated with the consumption of 90 or more iron-containing supplements in 12 low and middle income countries across three regions after adjusting for different household and respondent characteristics, while mass media exposure was found to be a significant predictor in India and Indonesia. Antenatal care seems to be the most important predictor of adherence to iron intake in the selected countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean regions.…”
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Proceedings of stakeholder' consultation meeting on agrifood value chains in Odisha: Challenges and Opportunities by Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, International Food Policy Research Institute

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Prospects of crop insurance for sustenance of farmers' livelihood during GM cotton crop failure in Indian Punjab by Kaur, Sandeep, Singh, Harpreet, Roy, Devesh, Singh, Hardeep

“…Crops susceptible to volatility due to climate-related factors should be identified and provided with a special insurance package.There exist very scant studies that have discussed the viability of a central crop insurance scheme in the agricultural-rich state of India, i.e. Punjab. Moreover, they do not also focus on crop losses accruing due to pest and insect attacks.…”
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Using outcome trajectory evaluation to assess HarvestPlus’ contribution to the development of national biofortification breeding programs by Douthwaite, Boru, Johnson, Nancy L., Wyatt, Amanda

“…This paper describes the use of a new evaluation method—outcomes trajectory evaluation (OTE), based on both evaluation and policy process theory—to explore the influence of HarvestPlus, a large and complex research for development program focused on improving nutrition, on a specific policy outcome, namely the establishment of crop biofortification breeding programs in national agricultural research institutes in Bangladesh, India and Rwanda. The findings support claims of significant HarvestPlus contributions to the establishment of the programs while also raising issues that need to be monitored moving forward to ensure sustainability. …”
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Tackling nutrition in Odisha: Looking back, looking forward by Avula, Rasmi, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Mishra, Nihar, Mitra, Devjit, Kohli, Neha, Menon, Purnima

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Scaling up delivery of biofortified staple food crops globally: Paths to nourishing millions by Foley, Jennifer, Michaux, Kristina D., Mudyahoto, Bho, Kyazike, Laira, Cherian, Binu, Kalejaiye, Olatundun Adeoti, Ifeoma, Okonkwo, Ilona, Paul, Reinberg, Chelsea, Mavindidze, Donald, Boy, Erick

“…Objective: To review and highlight lessons learned from multiple large-scale delivery strategies used by HarvestPlus to scale up biofortification across different country and crop contexts. Results: India has strong public and private sector pearl millet breeding programs and a robust commercial seed sector. …”
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Improving the performance of index insurance using crop models and phenological monitoring by Afshar, Mehdi H., Foster, Tim, Higginbottom, Thomas P., Parkes, Ben, Hufkens, Koen, Mansabdar, Sanjay, Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber

“…Using a biophysical process-based crop model (Agricultural Production System sIMulator (APSIM)) applied for rice producers in Odisha, India, we simulate a synthetic yield dataset to train non-parametric statistical models to predict rice yields as a function of meteorological and phenological conditions. …”
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Agricultural intensification: Who intensifies and how does it contribute to income growth? by Berhane, Guush, Abate, Gashaw T., Wolle, Abdulazize

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Can restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian states by Hughes, Karl, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Sharma, Himani, Lissah, Sanoop, Chorran, Tenzin, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Dogra, Atul, Cook, Nathan, Andersson, Krister

“…India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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CEDIL Work-in-Freedom 2 Bangladesh Migration Dataset by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The program aims to reach at least 350,000 women and girls at source in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and at destinations in Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Jordan. …”
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Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach by Hufkens, Koen, Melaas, Eli K., Mann, Michael L., Foster, Timothy, Ceballos, Francisco, Robles, Miguel, Kramer, Berber

“…This study assesses the feasibility of using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in northwest India. In particular, we demonstrate how streams of pictures of individual smallholder fields, taken using inexpensive smartphones, can be used to quantify important phenological stages in agricultural crops, specifically the wheat heading phase and how it can be used to detect lodging events, a major cause of crop damage globally. …”
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Pixelating crop production: Consequences of methodological choices by Joglekar, Alison K. B., Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Pardey, Philip G.

“…To do so, we determine the sensitivity of the 2005 variant of the spatial production allocation model data series (SPAM2005) to eight methodological-cum-data choices in nine agriculturally-large and developmentally-variable countries: Brazil, China, Ethiopia, France, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey and the United States. …”
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The feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance by Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber, Robles, Miguel

“…A pilot implementation in the rice-wheat belt of India speaks to PBI being a feasible and valuable innovation to reduce downside basis risk in index insurance: nearly two-thirds of trained farmers took at least four pictures (roughly one per growth stage), which was considered sufficient for loss assessment; severe damage was visible from smartphone pictures in 71 percent of affected sites; and this was a significant improvement over alternative index-based products, which identified severe damage in at most 34 percent of affected sites.…”
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Weather dataset choice introduces uncertainty to estimates of crop yield responses to climate variability and change by Parkes, Ben, Higginbottom, Thomas P., Hufkens, Koen, Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber, Foster, Timothy

“…Our results show that individual gridded weather datasets vary in their representation of historic spatial and temporal temperature and precipitation patterns across India. We show that these differences create large uncertainties in estimated crop yield responses and exposure to extreme weather events, which highlight the need for improved consideration of input data uncertainty in statistical studies that explore impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture.…”
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Comparing apples to apples: A new indicator of research and development investment intensity in agriculture by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

“…The new measure finds that countries like China, India, Brazil, and Kenya have similar levels of R&D intensity to those in the United States. …”
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Can agricultural aspirations influence preferences for new technologies? Cropping systems and preferences for high-efficiency irrigation in Punjab, Pakistan by Bell, Andrew R., Ward, Patrick S., Ashfaq, Muhammad, Davies, Stephen

“…Although adoption of drip irrigation is growing rapidly in India, adoption is low in neighboring Pakistan. The authors of this paper undertook a discrete choice experiment framed around the hypothetical subsidized purchase of a drip irrigation system in four districts of Punjab, Pakistan. …”
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National inception workshop: Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns: Viet Nam by Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

“…More than 60 experts from international organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, civil society and private sector from Vietnam, the Philippines, India, the United States of America and Italy took part in the discourse on global, regional and national perspectives on agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region vis-à-vis the Vietnam economy. …”
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National inception workshop: Myanmar: Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns by Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

“…Experts from international organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, civil society and private sector representing Myanmar, the Philippines, Italy, India and the United States of America took part in the discourse on global, regional and national perspectives on agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region. …”
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