Search Results - "Pakistanis"

Malaria vectors in the changing environment of the southern Punjab, Pakistan by Klinkenberg, Eveline, Konradsen, Flemming, Herrel, N., Mukhtar, M., Hoek, Wim van der, Amerasinghe, Felix P.

“…The Pakistani Punjab experienced several devastating malaria epidemics during the twentieth century. …”
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Proposal for the Establishment of an International Buffalo Research Institute in Pakistan by Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Development, Pakistan

“…Proposal written by Pakistani Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Development describing the state of knowledge about water buffalo production, management, physiology, and roles in the country's agriculture, which provide, it is argued, justification for the creation of an International Water Buffalo Research Institute in Pakistan. …”
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Sustaining land and water productivity in the Indus Plains of Pakistan by Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Masih, I.

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Climate-Smart Agriculture profiles implemented across Pakistan are being used by Provincial governments and their partners to design new programming and capacity development initia... by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT developed Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) profiles for three Pakistani provinces (including 13 districts and 44 villages), training 80 national experts and FAO staff who trained over 1,000 farmers and agricultural practitioners. …”
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Climate change and extreme events: Impacts on Pakistan’s agriculture by Zhu, Tingju, Xie, Hua, Waqas, Ahmad, Ringler, Claudia, Iqbal, M. Mohsin, Goheer, M. Arif, Sulser, Timothy B.

“…Due to its arid to semi-arid climate, water is the single most constraining factor to Pakistani agriculture. Water resources are heavily appropriated for productive uses, and agriculture is the main user of water resources. …”
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Cotton-Textile-Apparel sectors of Pakistan: Situations and challenges faced by Cororaton, Caesar B., Salam, Abdul, Altaf, Zafar, Orden, David, Dewina, Reno, Minot, Nicholas, Nazli, Hina

“…This study provides descriptions of these sectors and examines the key developments emerging domestically and internationally that affect the challenges and opportunities they face. One-quarter of Pakistani farmers, of whom about 40 percent have household incomes below the poverty line, grow cotton. …”
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Heat and drought-resistant wheat varieties in Pakistan help farmers combat climate change stress and is success of physiological breeding approach by CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

“…The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council has taken on certified seed multiplication more than 100,000 Pakistani farmers currently grow one or more of the 3 varieties.…”
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Religion, land and politics: Shrines and literacy in Punjab, Pakistan by Malik, Adeel, Mirza, Rinchan Ali

“…Compiling a unique database covering the universe of shrines across Pakistani Punjab, we explore whether the presence of holy Muslim shrines helps to explain regional variation in literacy rates. …”
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Exploring the Potential and Constraints of Smallholder Aquaculture in Marginalized Saline Areas in Pakistan by Rossignoli, Cristiano, Obi, Chinedu, Ali, Syed

“…It is estimated that more than 6 million hectares of Pakistani soil are affected by salinity. Salinity in the soil has caused many lands to be unsuitable for growing crops, and thousands of hectares have been abandoned. …”
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Climate by Hashmi, M. Z. U. R., Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif, Azizi, M. A.

“…This chapter summarizes the available knowledge related to changing climate trends in three Afghan–Pakistani transboundary river basins: the Kabul, Kurram and Gomal. …”
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Allocative inefficiency and farm-level constraints in irrigated agriculture in Pakistan by Nasim, Sanval, Dinar, Ariel, Helfand, Steven

“…In this paper, we estimate the allocative inefficiency of groundwater in Pakistani agriculture and compare it across a set of farm-level constraints, using a panel dataset of rural households. …”
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Environmental services and water use in South Asia: evidences from Indo-Gangetic basins by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Singh, A.

“…The findings present a highly agreeable stance of Indian and Nepalese farmers towards the contribution to the environmental services while the majority of Pakistani is opposed to such a contribution. However, they all agree on the type of the assessment approach. …”
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory and practice in Pakistan by Hameed, Syed Kamran

“…This master thesis is dealing with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its awareness in Pakistani companies. The objective is to see how different companies in Pakitan (multinationals and domestic) view the CSR concept in their strategy. …”
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Pre-colonial religious institutions and development: Evidence through a military coup by Malik, Adeel, Mirza, Rinchan Ali

“…We compile a unique database on holy Muslim shrines across Pakistani Punjab and construct a historical panel of literacy spanning over a century (1901–2011). …”
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Genetic diversity and relationships of indigenous Kenyan camel (Camelus dromedarius) populations: Implications for their classification by Mburu, D.N., Ochieng, J.W., Kuria, S.G., Han Jianlin, Kaufmann, B., Rege, J.E.O., Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…Phylogenetic analysis showed that Kenyan dromedaries are distinct from Arabian and Pakistani populations. Expected heterozygosity and allelic diversity values indicate that Kenyan dromedaries are less diverse than non-Kenyan populations. …”
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Crowding in private quality: The equilibrium effects of public spending in education by Andrabi, Tahir, Bau, Natalie, Das, Jishnu, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Khwaja, Asim Ijaz

“…We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. …”
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Challenges and prospects of sustainable groundwater management in the Indus Basin, Pakistan by Qureshi, A.S., McCornick, Peter G., Sarwar, A., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…Therefore there is a need to develop frameworks and management tools that are best suited to Pakistani needs. Pakistan should follow both supply and demand management approaches. …”
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Compensation of irrigation professionals: a comparative study of the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Pakistan by Kikuchi, M, Merrey, Douglas J., Dassenaike, L.

“…In contrast, irrigation engineers in one Pakistani agency have enjoyed a significant increase in their compensation, largely because of the high level of benefits. …”
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Pakistan’s potential trade and ‘behind the border’ constraints by Miankhel, Adil Khan

“…The existence of such institutional, socio-economic, and political constraints to Pakistani exports is empirically investigated in this paper through a cross-sec-tional analysis employing a trade Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model. …”
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Productivity and efficiency of farmers growing four popular wheat varieties in Punjab, Pakistan by Battese, George E., Nazli, Hina, Smale, Melinda

“…HarvestPlus seeks to select one or more wheat varieties in Pakistan to biofortify with zinc to improve the health of the Pakistani population, especially women and children. …”
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