Resultados de búsqueda - "South Asia"

A community of practice emerges to drive data-driven policies and investments across Africa and South Asia por Wong, Madeline

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Availability of data on agrobiodiversity in South Asia: A report on data availability for Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan por Kamal, Mustafa, Faisal, Asif Al, Druti, Baishakhee Pashari, Chakraborty, Shreya, Laing, Alison, Krupnik, Timothy J.

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Availability of national policies, programmes, and survey-based coverage data to track nutrition interventions in South Asia por Neupane, Sumanta, Jangid, Manita, Scott, Samuel P., Kim, Sunny S., Murira, Zivai, Heidkamp, Rebecca, Carducci, Bianca, Menon, Purnima

“…Progress to improve nutrition among women, infants and children in South Asia has fallen behind the pace needed to meet established global targets. …”
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19: Insights from 7 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia por Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti, Ringler, Claudia, Bryan, Elizabeth, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

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Enabling Agrifood Systems Transformation in South Asia with Data and Evidence: Opportunities and Challenges (Webinar session 10) por International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…South Asia, home to one quarter of the global population, faces issues such as poverty, malnutrition, and unsustainable food production systems despite being a major producer of food. …”
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Mechanization growth and declining farm size in South Asia: Exploring the role of biological technologies in Nepal Terai por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Liu, Yanyan

“…The agricultural sector in developing countries including those in South Asia, like Nepal, faces dual challenges of the persistent dominance of smallholder-based farming, and at the same time, rising labor costs due partly to growing non-farm sectors. …”
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Community-level perceptions of drivers of change in nutrition: Evidence from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa por Nisbett, Nicholas, van den Bold, Mara, Gillespie, Stuart, Menon, Purnima, Davis, Peter, Roopnaraine, Terence, Kampman, Halie, Kohli, Neha, Singh, Akriti, Warren, Andrea

“…This paper considers these factors directly from the perspective of community members and frontline workers interviewed in six countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In each country, in-depth interviews were conducted with mothers, other community members and health workers to understand changes in health and nutrition practices, nutrition-specific interventions, underlying drivers and nutrition-sensitive interventions, and life conditions. …”
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Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned? por Gillespie, Stuart, Poole, Nigel, van den Bold, Mara, Bhavani, R. V., Dangour, Alan D., Shetty, Prakash

“…Despite significant improvements over recent decades, rates of undernutrition remain high in South Asia, with adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality. …”
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Policy options to accelerate variety change among smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara por Spielman, David J., Smale, Melinda

“…This paper explores the importance of varietal turnover in advanced and transitional seed systems for food staples in South Asia and Africa south of the Sahara. We first review the measurement of varietal turnover over spatial and temporal dimensions before examining evidence on policies designed to accelerate varietal turnover rates. …”
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Advancing crop disease early warning in South Asia by complementing expert surveys with internet media scraping por Smith, Jacob W., Faisal, Asif Al, Hodson, David P., Baidya, Suraj, Bhatta, Madan, Dhruba Bahadur Thapa, Basnet, Roshan, Thurston, William, Krupnik, Timothy J., Gilligan, Christopher A.

“…A wheat rust early warning and advisory system comprising surveillance, near real-time disease risk forecasts and advisory dissemination has been established in two target countries in South Asia, including Nepal and Bangladesh. However, as wheat rust spores can be aerially transmitted over long distances, near real-time estimates of disease incidence are required from sources of infection in neighbouring regions. …”
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Is there an enabling environment for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in South Asia?: Stakeholder perspectives from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan por van den Bold, Mara, Kohli, Neha, Gillespie, Stuart, Zuberi, Samar, Rajeesh, Sangeetha, Chakraborty, Barnali

“…Almost half of all children in South Asia are stunted. Although agriculture has the potential to be a strong driver of undernutrition reduction and serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of South Asia’s population, its potential to reduce undernutrition is currently not being realized.The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium seeks to understand how agriculture and agrifood systems can be better designed to improve nutrition in South Asia. …”
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Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: Examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions por Gillespie, Stuart, van den Bold, Mara, Hodge, Judith, Herforth, Anna

“…South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the two regions of the world with the highest concentration of undernutrition. …”
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Using remote sensing technologies to enhance resource conservation and agricultural productivity in underutilized lands of South Asia por Chandna, Parvesh, Ladha, J.K., Singh, U.P., Punia, Milap, Gupta, Raj, Sidhu, B.S.

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Rice-maize systems of South Asia: current status, future prospects and research priorities for nutrient management por Timsina, Jagadish, Jat, Mangi L., Majumdar, Kaushik

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Biomass pressures in mixed farms: Implications for livelihoods and ecosystems services in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa por Valbuena, Diego, Erenstein, Olaf, Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Duncan, Alan J., Gerard, Bruno G., Teufel, Nils

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Assessing food acquisition, preparation, and consumption practices in South Asia: A systematic review of assessment tools por Patwardhan, Sharvari, Boncyk, Morgan, Avula, Rasmi, Blake, Christine, Akter, Fahmida, Das, Jai K., Silva, Renuka, Menon, Purnima, Scott, Samuel P.

“…We conducted a systematic review to identify gaps in existing assessment tools for food acquisition, preparation, and household consumption practices in South Asia, wherein diets are rapidly changing, and triple burden of malnutrition is emerging. …”
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What adults in rural South Asia eat and when they eat it: Evidence from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal por Scott, Samuel P., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Ruel, Marie T., Chakrabarti, Suman, Neupane, Sumanta, Manohar, Swetha, Moursi, Mourad, Menon, Purnima

“…Data on dietary patterns are scarce in South Asia. Objectives We sought to describe overall diet quality, intake of foods and food groups, and eating occasions among adults in rural South Asia. …”
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Exploring rural retail food environments in South Asia: Food availability, diversity, and density of retail stores por Afrin, Zainab Bi, Choudhury, Samira, Faijul Kabir, A.N.M, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…TAFSSA (Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia), a CGIAR regional integrated initiative, addresses food system challenges by delivering actionable evidence and scalable innovations in South Asia. …”
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Integrated assessments of the impact of climate change on agriculture: An overview of AgMIP regional research in South Asia por McDermid, Sonali P., Dileepkumar, Guntuku, Murthy, K. M. Dakshina, Nedumaran, S., Singh, Piara, Srinivasa, Chukka, Gangwar, B., Subash, N., Ahmad, Ashfaq, Zubair, Lareef, Nissanka S. P.

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Post-Flowering Stalk Rot (PFSR) of Maize: A disease of complex etiology resurging in South Asia por Nair, Sudha K., Rashid, Zerka

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