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Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections by Gurung, Pabitra, Bharathi L.

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Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development by Biggs, Stephen D.

“…These cover the spread of bamboo tubewells in eastern Bihar, changes in rice research policy and the rice innovation system in Nepal, and the spread of groups and group based organisations and federations in Nepal. …”
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Problems of maize cultivation and the role and approach of local farmers in solving this problem by Aryal, Sri Hari Prassed

“…Maize is the main crop in this village in Ihe Gulmi district of Nepal. Farmers from this village discuss their experiences participating in maize-improvement research with Ihe Local Initiatives for biodiversity Research and Development (U-SIRO). …”
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Nutrient management for higher productivity of Swarna Sub1 under flash floods areas by Manandhar, Sarita, Chaudhary, Bedanand, Srivastava, Ashish K., Singh, Sudhanshu, Singh, Uma Shankar, Haefele, Stephan M.

“…Two field experiments were conducted at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Tarahara, Nepal during 2012 and 2013 to determine the effect of agronomic management on growth and yield of Swarna Sub1 under flash floods. …”
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The slippery slopes of forest governance in the Chure range by Bjärnlid, Hanna

“…Nepal has been portrayed as a leading country in implementing community forestry, a forest management method which puts the responsibility of forest management on local communities to mitigate forest degradation. …”
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Productivity of mixtures and evolutionary populations of wheat, barley, beans and rice by Mengistu, Dejene Kassahun, Salimi, Maede, Nawal, A., Neupane, Sumanta, Rinchen, D., John, M., Shimelis, Yonas, Nankya, Rose, Jarvis, Devra I.

“…Similarly, mixtures of different varieties of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) were grown by farmers in Bhutan, Nepal and Uganda, with mixtures of Rice (Oryza sativa) were also grown by Bhutan and Nepal farmers. …”
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Who gets what? : the community forest user group’s role in rebuilding communities by Lind, Lova

“…The earthquake and the aftershocks that struck Nepal in 2015 brought destruction to many parts of the country, and still to this day rural communities struggle to rebuild their private houses and return life to what it was. …”

On-farm agrobiodiversity measurement and conservation by Joshi, Bal Krishna, Ghimire, Krishna Hari, Gurung, Rita, Pudasaini, Niranjan, Pant, Saroj, Paneru, Pragati, Gauchan, Devendra, Mishra, Krishna Kumar, Jarvis, Devra I.

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Community institutions in water governance for sustainable livelihoods by Pradhan, P., Khadka, Manohara, GC, Raj K., van Koppen, Barbara, Rajouria, A., Pandey, V. P.

“…This article assesses different models of community institutions in Nepal in governing water resources from various lenses, based on Ostrom’s and others’ design principles, including bricolage. …”
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Exploring future food security, livelihoods and environments under climate change in South Asia by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…In June 2013, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security organised a workshop at Nagarkot, Nepal with expert-stakeholders from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as international experts to explore the future of food security, livelihoods and environments in South Asia under conditions of climate change. …”
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Participatory varietal selection in high-potential production systems by Witcombe, John R.

“…This collaborative research is conducted by the Centre for Arid Zone Studies, UK; Local Initiatives in Biodiversity Research and Development (U-BIRD), Nepal; the Gramin Vikas Trust, India; and the Punjab Agricultural University, India. …”
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Role of farmers in setting breeding goals by Subedi, Madu, Shrestha, P.K., Sunwar, Sharmila, Subedi, A.

“…Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important crop in the hill farming system in Nepal. It plays an important role in the livelihood of the people living in the hills. …”
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Germplasm rescue and repatriation by Joshi, Bal Krishna, Ghimire, Krishna Hari, Gurung, Rita, Gauchan, Devendra

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Compendium of Climate-smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices by Bhusal, Aastha, Khatri, Laxman, GC, Sagar, Mandal, Indeshwar, Bhatt, Bhagwati P, Pudasaini, Niranjan, Katuwal, Yogendra, Mishra, Sujan, Gautam, Anita, Shiwakoti, Tejaswee, Dhakal, Bishnu

“…Nepal is a vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change. …”
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Mechanisation of small-scale farms in South Asia: Empirical evidence derived from farm households survey by Aryal, Jeetendra P, Rahut, Dil B, Thapa, Ganesh, Simtowe, Franklin

“…Farm mechanisation is most widespread in India, followed by Nepal and Bangladesh, though the types of machinery used vary across them. …”
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Hello, can you hear me? Impact of speakerphones on phone survey responses by Alvi, Muzna, Barooah, Prapti, Gupta, Shweta, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Ringler, Claudia

“…Using phone survey data from India and Nepal, we test the impact of speakerphone use on bias in responses by women and men. …”
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South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative: Abstract digest April 2024 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…There are interesting studies from South Asia with a focus on Bangladesh, India and Nepal on topics including geospatial and environmental determinants of undernutrition, dietary diversity assessment of pregnant adolescent girls and nutrition interventions such as mid-day meal program in India and Suaahara in Nepal. …”
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Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers by Khanal, Aditya R., Mishra, Ashok K., Kumar, Anjani

“…Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an integral role in CF in Nepal (Mishra et al. 2018); The relationship between participation in agricultural cooperatives and farm performance is not fully conclusive; some studies have explored the production efficiency about cooperative membership (Abate et al. 2014; Gedara et al. 2012) and have found mixed evidence about the relationship; None of the previous studies have examined the relationships between cooperative membership and technical efficiency for the high-value crops, like tomato in a developing country context; This study estimates the selectivity-corrected stochastic frontier analysis for the tomato growers in Nepal, accounting for selection bias in efficiency estimation, emphasizing the role of cooperative CF on technical efficiency.…”
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Groundwater games in Barahathawa: Lessons and implications by Bruns, Bryan, Khadka, Manohara, KC, Sumitra, Rauniyar, Amrita

“…Groundwater is a crucial source of water for domestic use and increasingly used for irrigation in the southern Terai region of Nepal. However, increasing groundwater extraction and other changes are depleting groundwater levels. …”
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Is healthy food affordable in Rajshahi, Bangladesh? Cost and affordability of a healthy diet by Chauhan, Alka, Tomar, Anindya, Headey, Derek D., Scott, Samuel P., Kishore, Avinash, Menon, Purnima

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) local food systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. It was designed to be a district-level multi-year assessment. …”
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