Search Results - "Odisha"

Assessment of the effectiveness and efficacy of seed villages in India by Bhuvana, Narayana Rao, Dominic, Ditty Maria, Mittal, Nimisha, Sulaiman V, Rasheed, Puskur, Ranjitha, Tenneti, Suchaita

“…Based on a literature review and fieldwork in Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and Karnataka, we identified three distinct models of seed villages for detailed analysis. …”
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Workshop: Coming together to leverage India’s national workfare program for resilient livelihoods for women by Bhubaneshwar consortium

“…They discussed the challenges facing the MGNREGA in Odisha and elsewhere and to highlight potential solutions for improving women’s role in the selection of assets under the program and utilizing these assets to build resilient livelihoods.…”
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Adoption of Rice Crop Manager by CGIAR Research Program on Rice

“…In Philippines, more than 1.7 M recommendations generated for farmers in 2014-2018. In Odisha, India, around 100 thousand farmers have received recommendations in 2016-18.…”
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Predicting yields using biophysical crop simulations, machine learning and remote sensing in India by CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

“…We tested the innovation and piloted it using ground truth yield data collected by means of crop cutting experiments in Odisha. Before starting to finalize the tool for adoption by insurance providers, the tool will be fine-tuned in the course of 2021.…”
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Stakeholder Consultation on Using experiential learning methods & tools to strengthen community water management by Falk, Thomas, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Singh, Subrata, Mittal, Rajesh

“…PowerPoint presentation given during Stakeholder Consultation with Agriculture Department Bureaucrats from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, India, 4pm IST, August 4, 2022 (virtual).…”
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Heat stress: A growing crisis for women farmers by Kori, Pooja, Verma, Benu, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This booklet was designed to disseminate learnings from the project on 'Heat Stress, Agriculture and Gender’, conducted in Ganjam, Mayurbhanj and Balangir districts of Odisha, India funded by the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform. …”
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Too Hot to Carry On: A growing crisis for women farmers by Kori, Pooja, Verma, Benu, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This booklet was designed to disseminate learnings from the project on 'Heat Stress, Agriculture and Gender’, conducted in Ganjam, Mayurbhanj and Balangir districts of Odisha, India funded by the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform. …”
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Investment Game Application (IGA): A new interactive tablet application for digital product profiling for rice breeding by CGIAR Research Program on Rice

“…IGA has been pre-tested in the Philippines and piloted and implemented through large-scale behavioral experiments in eastern India (Odisha and West Bengal), Bangladesh, the Philippines and Cambodia. …”
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Integrating Rice Crop Manager with ICT based tool for scaling out climate-smart agriculture interventions by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…District managers of all the districts of Odisha were trained in a training of trainers mode, who in turn, trained the village level entrepreneurs to generate recommendations using the rice crop manager tool.…”
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Beyond incomes: What is the true impact of engaging in seed production on women's lives? Part 2. by Khan, Afreen, Puskur, Ranjitha, Tenneti, Suchaita

“…Two Farmer Producer Companies (FPC) in Odisha, India aim to further sustain their increased yields and bridge productivity gaps by facilitating and activating women's entrepreneurship in paddy seed production. …”
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PDS, National Food Security Act, and COVID-19 by Boss, Ruchira, Pradhan, Mamata, Roy, Devesh, Saroj, Sunil

“…Based on a primary survey in Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh, this article traces the changes in the PDS post NFSA, and during the Covid-19 crisis.…”
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Deployment of PIM guidance on development of multi-actor platforms for landscape governance and restoration across six states in India by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…The guidance has been adopted as an integral part of Foundation for Ecological Security’s program implementation across six states (Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh).…”
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48% of farmers adopt stress-tolerant rice varieties and improve their yield and income in flood-risk areas in India by CGIAR Research Program on Rice

“…The study analyzed the impact of information access and information quality on adoption decisions regarding stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) in flood-risk areas in Assam, Odisha and West Bengal in India. 48 per cent of the farmers having access to information decided to adopt STRVs. …”
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HER+ Stakeholder workshop paves the way for piloting Learning Labs in India by CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative

“…The CGIAR Gender Equality initiative, HER+ on 27- 28 November convened for a workshop with stakeholders who are playing a pivotal role in designing and piloting Socio-technical Innovation Bundles (STIBs) in learning labs in West Bengal and Odisha in India. This workshop was part of the process of co-designing and implementing STIBs. …”
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India's policy pathways by International Water Management Institute

“…Arabinda Kumar Padhee; Principal Secretary at the Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Empowerment, Government of Odisha.…”
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Indigenous peoples struggle for communal lands in Sundargarh, India by Tharu, Prem Singh

“…In recent years, however, governments and corporations have been grabbing and exploiting indigenous community land and establishing industries in these resource-rich areas – for example in Odisha, India. In the Telighana village of Sundargarh, indigenous people are struggling to protect their land, as their rights are not recognised. …”
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Assessing alternative crop establishment methods with a sustainability lens in rice production systems of Eastern India by Devkota, K.P., Yadav, S., Khanda, C.M., Beebout, S.J., Mohapatra, B.K., Singleton, G.R., Puskur, Ranjitha

“…For that, a household survey was conducted on 652 households in Odisha India during 2016. The gaps, i.e., the target to achieve better sustainability, were computed for most of the indicators from the difference between top 10th percentile and the population mean value of the indicator. …”
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Was a government policy able to smooth a fractured agri-food value chain during a COVID-19 lockdown? by Mockshell, Jonathan, Ritter, Thea

“…Despite widespread use of government policy response instruments to placate impacts that COVID-19 lockdowns had on agri-food value chains, there is limited evidence on their effectiveness and impacts on value chain actors, particularly those in the ‘missing or (hidden) middle.’ 1 To shed on one such policy, we examine whether a fresh fruit and vegetable (FFV) procurement program operated by self-help groups (SHGs) in the state of Odisha, India during the world’s most severe COVID-19 lockdown 2 was able to smooth fractured value chain…”
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The project Seeing is Believing unlocks USD 300,000 of financing for smallholder farmers in India by CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

“…Evidence generated through the Seeing is Believing project, including a COVID-19 rapid response grant, helped unlock agricultural microcredit to farmers in Odisha, India. The rapid response grant allowed for de-risking of our partner Dvara E-Registry's "KhetScore" model, which uses georeferenced smartphone images to review and monitor crop loan applications. …”
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Institutional convergence for agricultural development: The changing role of extension by Ananth, Pavanasam Natarajan, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Barik, Nagesh Kumar, Dash, Ajaya Kumar, Sundaray, J. K.

“…Based on their experiences with convergence of activities at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in Khordha under ICAR-Central Institute for Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, PN Ananth, S Babu, NK Barik, AK Dash and JK Sundaray demonstrates how convergence at the KVK level can enhance innovation and impact.…”
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