Search Results - "Nepal"

FATE: Feminisation, Agricultural Transition and rural Employment by Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Zamora, Elizabeth Jimenez, Phommavong, Saithong, Upreti, Bishnu Raj, Schnegg, Brigitte, Bieri, Sabin, Cook, Sarah, Seguino, Stephanie, Tsikata, Dzodzi, Wobst, Peter

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Possibility of earlyseason culture of water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) in Yaku island by Onjo, M., Shiwachi, H., Hayashi, M.

“…Then we found out the extremely early maturing strains introduced from high altitude area in the Kingdom of Nepal. On the other hand, foliar applications of gibberellins promoted the tuber enlargement. …”
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D4N2024 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5b: Addressing nutrition challenges in vulnerable populations by Thapaliya, Pragya, Sheuly, Afsana Habib, Gadhavi, Alfa, El-Kour, Tatyana, Akter, Fahmida, Das, Pinaki, Dirghayu, K. C., Shirisha, P., Rinky, Farhana, Kumar, Raj, Yasin, Rahima

“…D4N2024 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5b: Addressing nutrition challenges in vulnerable populations Oral presentations Enhancing Nutrition Through Home-Grown School Meal Programs: Policy, Governance, and Capacity Building in Rural Nepal Pragya Thapaliya, Programme Manager, Mercy Corps Empowering Adolescent Girls through Food Security and Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Bangladesh Afsana Habib Sheuly, Head of Nutrition and Health, Helen Keller International Diversifying food plates of tribal farmer households of Dangs by changing behaviour patterns around millets Alfa Gadhavi, Deputy Manager (Health & Nutrition), Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Double burden of malnutrition and its determinants among adolescent girls and boys (10-19 years): Evidence from a nationwide longitudinal survey in Bangladesh Fahmida Akter, Assistant Scientist, BRAC University Hidden Hunger: A Longitudinal Study of Nutritional Insecurity among Non-Poor Tribal and Non-Tribal Households in West Bengal, India Pinaki Das, Professor, Vidyasagar University Rapid-fire presentations Prevalence and determinants of the Double Burden of Malnutrition among Adolescents in Nepal: Results from an urban sample Dirghayu K.C., Research Coordinator, Public Health Promotion and Development Organization The importance of revisiting regional inequalities in the nutrition status of women and children: an empirical study from India P Shirisha, Project Research Scientist-II, ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology Factors associated with different form of malnutrition and their co-existence among 6-59 Months old children in Bangladesh: Findings from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey Farhana Rinky, Research Assistant, Center for NCD and Nutrition, BRAC JPG School of Public Health, BRAC University and Institute of Food Science and Technology Impact Evaluation of Community Clinic Intervention on Maternal Healthcare Utilization in the Slums of Delhi Raj Kumar, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Nutritional Antenatal Care Strategies Rahima Yasin, Research Coordinator, Institute of Global Health and Development, the Aga Khan University Hospital…”
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Report of the International Workshop on Registration of Farmers’ Varieties, 4-7 December 2018, Entebbe, Uganda. by Recha, Tobias, Muwanika, C., Otieno, G., Jonge, B. de, Mulumba, W., Nankya, R.

“…It provides a summary of experiences from several countries such as Bolivia, Ethiopia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal, Zimbabwe, and the European Union, where the registration of farmers’ varieties is currently on going or being discussed. …”
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How to clean up the Ganges? by Shah, Tushaar, Ray, Chittaranjan, Lele, Ume

“…For millennia, the Ganges River, holy to Hindus, has provided livelihoods, food, and water for Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. Last month, one of India's leading environmental activists died after a 111-day hunger strike, failing to evoke changes to save India's most revered river (known as Ganga). …”
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Strategic gender research contributes to policy change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. by CGIAR Research Program on Maize

“…Researchers also influenced policy-making, with potentially longer-term social change impacts in Nepal and Zambia. From a CGIAR-internal perspective, researchers expanded the reach of gender-transformative research and proposed innovations in gender-intentional maize breeding in sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Responding to wheat blast: Multi-stakeholder "Precision Phenotyping Platforms (PPP)" and the development then release of blast resistant varieties. by CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

“…Researchers identified sources of resistance, deciphered the underlying resistance mechanism and developed resistant varieties, released in Bangladesh, Bolivia, India and Nepal. Seed multiplication and dissemination are in progress in these countries. …”
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)-Calculator tool for farm level monitoring of performance, synergies and trade-offs by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…To strengthen the quantitative assessment of CSA effect on farm level performance, the tool was adjusted to allow a more generic assessment of farming systems adapting it to the farming characteristics of 8 CSVs (Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uganda, Nepal, Bangladesh) and included it in the ICT-based CSV monitoring tool.…”
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Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia: Technologies, Policies, and Digital Innovation for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Member Countries by Gakhar, Shalini, Sharma, Sheetal, Patwar, Shelly

“…SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organized a four-day training program for SAARC member countries representatives on Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia: Technologies, Policies, and Digital Innovation. 28 senior government officials and high-ranking country representatives from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka participated in this training program. …”
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Conceptual framework for linkages and partnerships in BIMSTEC by Roy, Devesh, Pradhan, Mamata, Boss, Ruchira, Rashid, Shahidur

“…It comprises seven member states: five from South Asia, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and two from Southeast Asia, Myanmar and Thailand. …”
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Is greater decisionmaking power of women associated with reduced gender discrimination in South Asia? by Smith, Lisa C., Byron, Elizabeth

“…To investigate this issue, the study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data collected during the 1990s in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The main empirical technique employed is multivariate regression analysis with statistical tests for significant differences in effects for girl and boy children. …”
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Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia by DeRosa, Dean A., Kumaresan, Govindan

“…Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)--Bangladesh , Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area. …”
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Developing leadership capacity for Water−Energy−Food− Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus actors: Training manual by Governance Lab, Great International

“…While the program was developed in Nepal, the manual and the program it describes are intended for an international audience. …”
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Farms of the future project by Gonsalves, Julian Francis

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Issues related to interventions in farmer managed irrigation: Rehabilitation of a tank irrigation system by Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy, Shanmugham, C.R.

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Sustainability and replicability of multiple-use water systems (MUS). Project report submitted to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the project "... by Clement, Floriane, Pokhrel, Paras, Sherpa, Tashi Yang Chung

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Women take the lead on climate change adaptation by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Related blogs on our training-of-trainer workshops: Taking the lead: local champions train farmers on climate change and gender issues http://ow.ly/u320h Training women to train others (Nepal) http://ow.ly/u324x…”
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Safeguarding local crop knowledge: the use of community biodiversity registers by Gómez César, M., Sthapit, B.R., Vernooy, Ronnie

“…This brief presents suggestions for the design and use of a community biodiversity register as a practical tool for communities to: (i) establish an inventory to allow monitoring of crop diversity and to document its associated farmer (traditional) knowledge, (ii) generate a collective sense of community empowerment and ownership of genetic resources as a way to decentralize their management and conservation, and (iii) provide a record of the knowledge and uses of local biodiversity that can prevent biopiracy and enable the equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. Examples from Nepal and South Africa are given.…”
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Role of farmers in the improvement of crops: New species of paddy in Maramche by Poudel, Chandra Kanta, Dil Bahadur, K.C., Poudel, Sita

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Experience, research, and facts related to local species of paddy by Mali, Chapel Div Bhagat, Chaudhary, Pashupati, Chaudhary, Parmananda

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