Resultados de búsqueda - "India"

Nepal’s 2072 federal constitution: Implications for the governance of the agricultural sector por Kyle, Jordan, Resnick, Danielle

“…Because Nepal is embarking on a pathway to more decentralized governance, which has been well-trodden by a number of other countries, the paper proceeds by examining five case studies, drawing lessons from India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, and South Africa. …”
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Measuring and tracking the access dimension of food security: Available indicators and recommendations for future investments por Ruel, Marie T., Ballard, Terri J., Deitchler, Megan

“…In Bihar, India, coverage of essential nutrition interventions is low, but little is known about the factors associated with service delivery by FLW and utilization of services by HH. …”
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Public benefits of private technology adoption: The localized spatial externalities of water conservation in eastern Uttar Pradesh por Bhargava, Anil K., Lybbert, Travis J., Spielman, David J.

“…This paper focuses on the geophysical complications that shape public benefits across landscapes, raising spatial considerations of the WCT adoption decision and optimal diffusion patterns that can inform policymakers with the dual objectives of cost-efficient natural resource conservation and poverty alleviation, particularly in light of increasingly erratic weather patterns attributed to climate change. We focus on India—the world’s largest user of groundwater—and build a spatially sensitive hydroeconomic model to capture the dynamics of public water availability due to WCT adoption. …”
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World Health Organization infant and young child feeding indicators and their associations with child anthropometry: A synthesis of recent findings por Jones, Andrew D., Ickes, Scott B., Smith, Laura E., Mbuya, Mduduzi N. N., Chasekwa, Bernard, Heidkamp, Rebecca A., Menon, Purnima, Zongrone, Amanda, Stoltzfus, Rebecca J.

“…Breastfeeding indicators demonstrated negative associations with HAZ, while indicators of diet diversity and overall diet quality were positively associated with HAZ in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Zambia (P < 0.05). These same complementary feeding indicators did not show consistent relationships with child stunting. …”
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Traders and agri-food value chain resilience: The case of maize in Myanmar por Goeb, Joseph, San, Cho Cho, Belton, Ben, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Aung, Nilar, Maredia, Mywish, Minten, Bart

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ICTforAg 2024 Technical Report por Koo, Jawoo, Manning, Matt, Angus, Dawn

“…In 2024, these entities implemented ICTforAg 2024 as a hybrid event on May 28-30 with virtual programming and in-person programming across five locations: New Delhi, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Los Baños, Philippines; Texcoco, Mexico, and Washington,D.C., USA. …”
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Assessing impact of fertilizer adoption in boosting small scale crop farming productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa por Murunga, Powel

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Task or time? Comparing methods for measuring the gender distribution of work por Banerjee, Archis, Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…While women’s participation in agricultural activities is high across Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, the amount of time they spend on agricultural activities is less than that spent by men. …”
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Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives por Rubin, Deborah

“…The four implementing project partners are Grameen Foundation, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) in India, Root Capital in Mexico, and TechnoServe in Guatemala. …”
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Crafting combinations to govern groundwater: Knowledge, motivation, and agency por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Bruns, Bryan

“…Articles in the special issue analyze groundwater governance in areas of Africa (east, south, and north), Central Asia, India, and the United States. The articles cover a range of scales from small groups playing experiential games to international agreements about transboundary aquifers. …”
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Dataset on the status of crop diversification in the Eastern Indo Gangetic Plains of South Asia por Nandi, Ravi, Jackson, Tamara, Arifa Jannat, Mitra, Biplab, Ghosh, Arunava, Chakma, Kali Ratan, Timsina, Pragya, Chaudhary, Anjana, Rahman, Wakilur, Karki, Emma S., Rana, Gunjan, Krupnik, Timothy J., Pashupati Pokhrel

“…The data presented here were collected from 1,400 farm households across 72 communities in eight locations within the EIGP of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh during the year 2023. …”
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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture por Rashid, Shahidur, Gulati, Ashok, Cummings, Jr., Ralph

“…Experts in agricultural policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) to answer these questions; and a concluding chapter synthesizes these countries' experiences with price stabilization programs. …”
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Genomic selection for different agronomic traits in ICARDA chickpea breeding program por Hamwieh, Aladdin, Jighly, Abdul-Qader, Kaur, Sukhjiwan, Istanbuli, Tawffiq

“…Approximately 8% of the training population represented materials imported From Australia and India. The germplasm was genotyped using 1,922 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers covering the eight chromosomes. …”
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Resource recovery from livestock waste: a compilation of business cases from the Global South por Sathiskumar, Abinaya, Singha, Rajdeep, Agide, Zeleke, Peña, G., Ruiz-Bastidas, R. C., Taron, Avinandan, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

“…Successful examples include India’s Zakariyapura and Banas plants, Ecuador’s climate-resilient biogas facilities, and Ghana’s Kumasi abattoir initiative. …”
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Diversity in agricultural research resources in the Asia-Pacific region por Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…Distribution of spending among countries in the Asia-Pacific region was also very uneven, with China, Japan, and India accounting for the lion's share of the region's agricultural research expenditures. …”
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Local markets, local varieties: Rising food prices and small farmers' access to seed por Smale, Melinda, Cohen, Marc J., Nagarajan, Latha

“…In-depth field research—undertaken by IFPRI with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other partners in India, Kenya, and Mali—brings to light new evidence about farmers’ access to seed and the role of village markets in supplying it, with a focus on semi-arid environments. …”
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The effects of political reservations for women on local governance and rural service provision por Raabe, Katharina, Sekher, Madhushree, Birner, Regina

“…In 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the needs of women. …”
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Celebrating Professor Rajeev K. Varshney's transformative research odyssey from genomics to the field on his induction as Fellow of the Royal Society por Garg, Vanika, Barmukh, Rutwik, Annapurna Chitikineni, Roorkiwal, Manish, Ojiewo, Chris O., Abhishek Bohra, Thudi, Mahendar, Singh, Vikas K., Kudapa, Himabindu, Saxena, Rachit K., Fountain, Jake C., Mir, Reyazul Rouf, Chellapilla Bharadwaj, Xiaoping Chen, Liu Xin, Pandey, Manish K.

“…Starting from a small town in India and reaching the global stage, Professor Varshney's academic and professional trajectory has inspired many scientists active in research today. …”
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Hermetic bags remain effective in minimizing storage loss after four successive cycles of reuse in Mexican highlands por Odjo, Sylvanus, González Regalado, Jessica, Saldivia Tejeda, Abel, Guera, O.G. Mariel, Verhulst, Nele

“…The effectiveness of polypropylene bags in minimizing storage loss was compared to the effectiveness of four hermetic bags from three different manufacturers (GrainPro Inc., USA; Ecotact, India; Vestergaard Frandsen Inc., Switzerland) and the effectiveness of silage plastic bags. …”
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Power with: conceptualizing and measuring women’s collective agency por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., ElDidi, Hagar, Pereira, Audrey, Heckert, Jessica, Kosec, Katrina, Nchanji, Eileen, Seymour, Greg, Doss, Cheryl

“…We illustrate potential methods and challenges of operationalizing these concepts through four case study projects in India, Guatemala, Uganda and Nigeria, and discuss the challenges of developing a common instrument to measure collective agency, in theory and in practice. …”
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