Search Results - "South Asia"

Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (UPAVAN) trial in rural Odisha, India: Impact, process and economic evaluation results and lessons learnt (W... by Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition, Varrat, Ekjut

“…The TAFSSA CGIAR Initiative is hosting a series of webinars to highlight research from South Asia on food security, sustainable healthy diets, farmer livelihoods and resilience, and land, air, and groundwater conservation. …”
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What are people eating in Rangpur, Bangladesh? Food consumption, food security, food sources, and food perceptions by Scott, Samuel P., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Chakrabarti, Suman, Chauhan, Alka, Banerjee, Archis, Neupane, Sumanta, Parvin, Aklima, Rasheed, Sabrina, Afsana, Kaosar, Shaheen, Nazma, Blake, Christine, Menon, Purnima, Kishore, Avinash

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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Adolescents’ diets and aspirations in Rajshahi, Bangladesh: Food consumption, task allocation, and future aspirations by Patwardhan, Sharvari, Chakrabarti, Suman, Chauhan, Alka, Banerjee, Archis, Neupane, Sumanta, Scott, Samuel P., Ranathunga, Thilanka, Konapur, Archana, Menon, Purnima

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Rangpur, Bangladesh: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Afsana, Kaosar, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Rajshahi, Bangladesh: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Afsana, Kaosar, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Banke, Nepal: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Kole, Subir, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessments aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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Unhealthy foods in Rangpur, Bangladesh: Consumption, perceptions, and exposure to advertisements by Samin, Sharraf, Kim, Sunny S., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Scott, Samuel P., Neupane, Sumanta, Chauhan, Alka, Blake, Christine E., Gavaravarapu, SubbaRao M., Pandey, Pooja, Menon, Purnima

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. …”
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This is US: Geography of evidence in top health economics journals by Hirvonen, Kalle

“…Reflecting this, more research was published based on data from the Nordic countries (27 million people) than from sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia regions combined (2.9 billion people). Finally, one‐third of the empirical articles did not indicate the country of evidence in the title or the abstract, possibly to signal external validity of the findings. …”
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Anatomy of non-tariff barriers in India–Sri Lanka free trade agreement: An empirical investigation by Pal, Barun Deb, Pohit, Sanjib

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Farmer's Preferences for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Hybrid Versus Traditional Rice by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data were collected from 576 rice-producing households in rural Bihar, as a part of a study under the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA).CSISA's vision is to decrease hunger and malnutrition and to increase food and income security for resource-poor farm households in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal through the accelerated development and inclusive deployment of new and improved crop varieties, sustainable technologies and management practices, and improved policies.…”
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Property rights, intersectionality, and women’s empowerment in Nepal by Pradhan, Rajendra, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Theis, Sophie

“…Finally, the paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the household life cycle.…”
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The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh by Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F., Ali, Disha, Tesfaye, Roman, Dereje, Mekdim

“…South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition—the so-called Asian enigma. …”
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Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change: Potential for group-based approaches by Ringler, Claudia, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Bryan, Elizabeth, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…The project “Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches” aims to help poor women farmers and pastoralists in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia—especially those in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh—manage risks under climate change. …”
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Agricultural growth as a key to poverty alleviation by Brown, Lynn R., Haddad, Lawrence J.

“…Almost half of the population of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa lives in absolute poverty; only East Asia has managed to substantially reduce the proportion of its population that is absolutely poor. …”
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Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition by Cohen, Marc J., Tirado, Cristina, Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Thompson, Brian

“…But over 820 million people in developing countries have calorie-deficient diets; over 60 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.…”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and HIV/AIDS by Gillespie, Stuart

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is affecting the rural landscape in ways that demand a rethinking of development policy and practice, and parts of South Asia may soon face a similar situation.... There is clearly tremendous scope for agricultural policy to become more HIV-responsive, both to further AIDS-related objectives and to help achieve agricultural objectives. …”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Occupational health hazards of agriculture by Cole, Donald

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is affecting the rural landscape in ways that demand a rethinking of development policy and practice, and parts of South Asia may soon face a similar situation.... There is clearly tremendous scope for agricultural policy to become more HIV-responsive, both to further AIDS-related objectives and to help achieve agricultural objectives. …”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Fish and health by Roos, Nanna, Wahab, Md. Abdul, Chamnan, Chhoun, Thilsted, Shakuntala H.

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is affecting the rural landscape in ways that demand a rethinking of development policy and practice, and parts of South Asia may soon face a similar situation.... There is clearly tremendous scope for agricultural policy to become more HIV-responsive, both to further AIDS-related objectives and to help achieve agricultural objectives. …”
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Stakeholder disconnect: Differences between farmers, extension workers, and researchers on preferred strategies for timely wheat sowing in Bihar, India by Gupta, Shweta, Kishore, Avinash, Burton, Michael

“…Late sowing of wheat is a persistent problem in South Asia despite widespread awareness that it lowers crop yields. …”
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Induced breeding and management practices for mass seed production of nutrition-sensitive punti fish by Ali, Hazrat, Dubey, Sourabh, Biswas, Ashutosh, Jaman, Ahmed, Rashid, Harun

“…The swamp barb (Puntius chola) and pool barb (Puntius sophore), collectively referred to as "punti" in the Ganges Delta, are widely distributed across South Asia. This user-friendly manual provides a step-by-step protocol for the induced breeding of punti, addressing the absence of standardized techniques that previously hindered its broader adoption. …”
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