Resultados de búsqueda - "South Asia"

IMPACTLite Tool por International Livestock Research Institute

“…The survey was carried out in 15 of CCAFS benchmark sites in twelve countries across East Africa, West Africa and South Asia. The tool helps capture the diversity of farming activities and characterize the main agricultural production systems. …”
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects por Johnson, Nancy L., Kovarik, C., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Njuki, Jemimah, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…This paper synthesizes the findings of eight mixed-method evaluations of the impacts of agricultural development projects on individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia. The results show that assets both affect and are affected by projects, indicating that it is both feasible and important to consider assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects. …”
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Groundwater resources in the dry zone of Myanmar: a review of current knowledge por Pavelic, Paul, Johnston, Robyn M., McCartney, Matthew P., Lacombe, Guillaume, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

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A Food Secure World For All: Toward a New Vision and Strategy for the CGIAR por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…This paper and the addendum were presented and approved at MTM 2000, and were subsequently combined in a document with the same name dated October 2000.The paper recommended that the CGIAR mission be achievement of sustainable food security and poverty reduction in the developing countries, and proposed a strategy of six elements which came to be called planks:1. focusing sharply on the reduction of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition;2. bringing modern science to bear on productivity and institutional problems;3. giving highest priority to South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa;4. adopting a regional approach to research planning;5. diversifying and closely integrating partnerships; and6. in certain circumstances, adopting a taskforce approach to CGIAR workIn the process of discussion, the catalytic role of the CGIAR was added as a seventh plankIn his presentation to MTM 2000, Javier called attention to aspects with strategic implications: the focus on poverty reduction at the regional level; adoption of modern research tools to complement or replace traditional tools; closer articulation with partners in regions with high concentrations of poverty; increasing NARS capability to share responsibilities; and augmenting CGIAR capacity to respond to changing environments.…”
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Evaluating Diverse Solar Irrigation Systems for their Scalability in India por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…With this vision of generating a comprehensive knowledge base on different functional solar powered smart irrigation models in India and their scalability, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Borlaug Institute of South Asia (BISA)-International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is documenting and evaluating different solar pump models across India, in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI).…”
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Impact assessment of CCAFS support to the 7th Five Year Plan in Bangladesh por Muzammil, Maliha

“…The future scenarios project under the theme uses multi-stakeholder regional and national scenarios to explore key socio-economic and uncertainties for food security, environments and livelihoods under climate change through integrated qualitative-quantitative scenarios describing futures up to 2050. The CCAFS South Asia (SA) Regional Scenarios Coordinator along with the Future Scenarios Project Team has been supporting the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) with successful policy guidance by using participatory scenarios for planning, training and capacity building from 2014. …”
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An interdisciplinary framework for using archaeology, history and collective action to enhance India’s agricultural resilience and sustainability por Green, A. S., Dixit, S., Garg, K. K., Sandya, N. R., Singh, G., Vatta, K., Whitbread, Anthony M., Jones, M. K., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A

“…South Asia has a deep history of agriculture that includes a range of past farming systems in different climatic zones. …”
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Agriculture collectives in North Bengal por International Water Management Institute

“…In South Asia, over 80% of farmers cultivate two hectares or less. …”
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Linking farm diversification, markets, and nutrition: TAFSSA’s Participatory Socio-Agronomic Research por Cheesman, Stephanie, Islam, Saiful, Alanuzzaman Kurishi, A.S.M., Kamal, Mustafa, Hossain, Shakhawat, Mahjabin, Tasnima, Parvin, Aklima, Parupalli, V.L.B., Krupnik, Timothy J.

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Inclusive water systems for just and resilient agri-food systems in Bangladesh: A transdisciplinary approach to inclusive water governance por Sharma, Indu K., Moyna, Shanta Soheli, Joshi, Deepa

“…The Asia Mega-Deltas initiative, in partnership with the Oxfam-led Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA)—Rivers, Rights and Resilience Project, plans to implement participatory research using a transdisciplinary approach that involves multiple sectors and stakeholders in water management to identify actionable pathways to addressing complex water issues. …”
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Innovations for equity: how to untap the gender-transformative potential of innovations in the agri-food sector por Basu, Sharmishtha, Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Khan, Suhela, Reddy, C.S., Burg, Margreet van der

“…Drawing on the experience of implementing innovations at the nexus of rice cultivation and climate action in South Asia, this panel session will bring together practitioners and international experts from research and policy. …”
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Bigger data from landscape-scale crop assessment surveys empowers sustainability transitions por McDonald, Andrew J., Malik, Ram K., Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter Q., Dubey, Shantanu K., Gautam, Udham S., Karki, Saral, Kishore, Avinash, Krupnik, Timothy J., Kumar, Virender, Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Nayak, Hari S., Parihar, Chiter M., Paudel, Gokul, Peramaiyan, Panneer, Pundir, Ajay, Poonia, Shishpal, Samaddar, Arindam, Sherpa, Sonam, Balwinder-Singh, Singh, Sudhanshu, Urfels, Anton, Veettil, Prakashan, Pathak, Himanshu, Singh, Ashok K.

“…Here we present results from a collaboration between the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) to address agricultural data gaps in India. …”
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Reducing vulnerability to forced labour and trafficking of women migrant workers from South- to West-Asia por ElDidi, Hagar, van Biljon, Chloe, Alvi, Muzna, Ringler, Claudia, Ratna, Nazmun N., Abdulrahim, Sawsan, Kilby, Patrick, Wu, Joyce, Choudhury, Zahid ul Arefin

“…Millions of short-term, low-skilled women migrant workers from South-Asia to West-Asia experience exploitative and unsafe conditions. …”
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Impacts of COVID‐19 on global poverty, food security, and diets: Insights from global model scenario analysis por Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Vos, Rob

“…The increases in poverty are concentrated in South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa with impacts harder in urban areas than in rural. …”
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Smallholders and rural people: Making food system value chains inclusive por Vos, Rob, Cattaneo, Andrea

“…KEY FINDINGS - Propelled by urbanization, rising incomes, and changing diets, food markets are expanding in Africa and South Asia, creating enormous potential for job and income opportunities along food supply chains. - Small and medium-sized enterprises have prolifer-ated in storage, logistics, transportation, and wholesale and retail distribution to meet growing rural and urban food demands. …”
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Review of Food security and sociopolitical stability by Christopher B. Barrett por Alderman, Harold

“…Papers discuss food or consequences—food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability; the future of the global food economy—scenarios for supply, demand, and prices; what we know about the climate of the next decade; the global land rush; global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity; managing marine resources for food and human security; crop technologies for the coming decade; livestock futures to 2020—how they will shape food, environmental, health, and global security; labor migration and food security in a changing climate; trade policies and global food security; food security and political stability—a humanitarian perspective; moral economics of food security and protest in Latin America; food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa; lessons from the Arab Spring—food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa; food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia; when China runs out of farmers; and food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia. …”
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Access, adoption, and diffusion: The long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh por Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…It is hoped that these results will help policymakers, donors, and other stakeholders to effectively evaluate different interventions thereby contributing to the design of future anti-poverty programs in South Asia. Among the poverty-alleviation interventions undertaken by government and civil society organizations in Bangladesh are foodbased strategies designed to increase incomes and to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies. …”
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Farming for the future: Prioritization of climate-smart agriculture technologies in SAARC countries por Kapoor, Shreya, Sma, Abdelkarim, Pathak, Himanshu, Pradhan, Mamata

“…It has increasingly gained prominence as an adaptation strategy against the adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture, particularly in South Asia. However, scaling up the adoption of CSA interventions becomes critical, due to predominantly small and marginal nature of landholdings in the region, various institutional and policy constraints, and trade regulations and barriers. …”
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Economic growth and development por Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…World Bank estimates of poverty in the developing world suggest that in 1985, an estimated 1 billion people were poor: they lived below a poverty line of about $420 per person per year. South Asia was home to about half of the developing world's poor, but projections suggest that Sub-Saharan Africa will increasingly become a locus of poverty in coming years as the number of poor people in that region increases from about 184 million in 1985 to 304 million people in 2000. …”
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The dragon and the elephant: Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India por Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen

“…This brief is based on a book, The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India (published for IFPRI by Johns Hopkins University Press and, in South Asia, by Oxford University Press-India), which compares the rural development and agricultural reform experiences of China and India and examines the lessons that can be learned from both.…”
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