Resultados de búsqueda - "South Asia"

Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: Approaches to agrarian prosperity with variable power industry - Foundation Day lecture por Shah, Tushaar

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Economic effects of water use and landholding scale to farming in South Asia: evidences from Indo-Gangetic basin por Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Amarasinghe, Upali A.

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Assessing institutional and environmental parameters of agricultural water use in South Asia: evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Basin por Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R.

“…The Indo-Gangetic Basin encompasses most of the fertile landholdings in South Asia. However, low agricultural productivity is observed in the four riparian countries - India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh - by nailing down rural welfare. …”
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Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia por Tall, Arame, Hansen, James, Jay, Alexa, Campbell, Bruce M., Kinyangi, James, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…This report presents lessons learned from 18 case studies across Africa and South Asia that have developed and delivered weather and climate information and related advisory services for smallholder farmers. …”
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The importance of informal dairy markets and their role in employment generation: Examples from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia por Omore, Amos O.

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Coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability: a cross-country study of smallholder farmers in South Asia por Bhatta, Gopal Datt, Aggarwal, Pramod K.

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Climatic and non-climatic factors influencing changing agricultural practices across different rainfall regimes in South Asia por Bhatta, Gopal Datt, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Shrivastava, Amit Kumar

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Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement por Amjath-Babu, Tharayil Shereef, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Vermeulen, Sonja J.

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Climate Services for Resilient Development in South Asia and Bangladesh: Semi-Annual and Inception Period Report April 2017 por Krupnik, Timothy J., Hussain, Ghulam, Schulthess, Urs C., McDonald, Andrew J., Stirling, Clare M., Pandit, D.B., Gerard, Bruno G., Matin, Mir A, Qamar, Faisal MQ, Fernandes, Jose M.C.

“…CSRD is aligned with the the Global Framework for Climate Services and works in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Colombia to creating and provide timely and useful climate data, information, tools, and services. Within South Asia, efforts to develop agricultural climate services under CSRD are led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). …”
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Supporting sustainable expansion of livestock production in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: Scenario analysis of investment options por Enahoro, Dolapo K., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Mul, Marloes, Rich, Karl M., Robinson, Timothy P., Thornton, Philip K., Staal, Steven J.

“…We use scenario analysis to explore this question, assessing the impacts of selected investment options in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Our results show that boosting livestock productivity primarily in these two regions could improve food security and producer incomes while limiting greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural water usage. …”
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Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research influences nutrition-sensitivity of Bangladesh National Food Policy and Country Investment Plans por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Direct seeded rice (DSR) field facilities at IRRI HQ, IRRI South Asia Hub, IRRI ESA (Kenya), AfricaRice (Senegal, Ivory Coast) por CGIAR Research Program on Rice

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Quantification of yield losses with relation to sheath blight development at different growth stages in mega rice varieties of South Asia por Lore, Jagjeet S., Jain, Jyoti, Hunjan, Mandeep S., Singh, Pritpal, Kumar, Sanjay, Zaidi, Najam W., Singh, Uma S.

“…Quantification of grain yield losses in mega rice varieties of south Asia due to infection by the sheath blight pathogen (Rhizoctonia solani) at different growth stages was carried out in 2 years in Northern India. …”
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Estimating farmers' internal value of crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems: A South Asia case study por Olson, Kent, Gauto, Victor, Teufel, Nils, Swain, Braja, Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine, Duncan, Alan J., Erenstein, Olaf

“…This study sets out to develop a method to estimate the internal shadow value of CR as feed and as mulch for smallholder households. The study uses a South Asia case study as illustration using data from a set of village and household surveys in three different sites. …”
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Pathways from Women's Group-based Programs to Nutrition Change in South Asia: A Conceptual Framework and Literature Review por Kumar, Neha

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Dairy development for the resource poor. Part 1: a comparison of dairy policies and development in South Asia and East Africa por Staal, Steven J., Pratt, A.N., Jabbar, M.A.

“…This study examines dairy development in two key dairy producing regions in the developing world: East Africa and South Asia. The aim of the study is to analyse the trends in dairy development in these two regions and identify their key determinants, to assess the impact of policy interventions on those trends and to identify impacts of dairy development, particularly on the poor. …”
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International Wheat Blast Consortium convened by WHEAT achieves early successes: Bundled research, resistant varieties in South Asia por CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

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Scaling out Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices in South Asia's Indo-Ganges Plain makes environmental and business sense por CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

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Reducing Poverty in South Asia by accelerating irrigation Intensification by influencing groundwater pricing policy in Bangladesh, East India and Nepal por CGIAR Research Program on Maize

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More is not enough: High quantity and high quality antenatal care are both needed to prevent low birthweight in South Asia por Neupane, Sumanta, Scott, Samuel P., Piwoz, Ellen, Kim, Sunny S., Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…We sought to 1) estimate LBW prevalence and burden in South Asia, 2) describe the number of ANC visits (quantity) and interventions received (quality), and 3) explore associations between ANC quantity, quality and LBW. …”
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