Search Results - "South Asia"

Regional developments [in 2019 Global Food Policy Report] by Badiane, Ousmane, Collins, Julia, Makombe, Tsitsi, Ulimwengu, John M., Breisinger, Clemens, Khouri, Nadim, Mahfouz, Fatma, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Tsvetnov, Evgeny, Park, Allen, Kumar, Anjani, Rana, Abdul Wajid, Davies, Stephen, Ahmed, Akhter, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Chen, Kevin Z., Timmer, Peter, Dawe, David, Wang, Zimeiyi, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This section of the 2019 Global Food Policy Report offers perspectives on food policy developments across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. …”
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Costs of diesel pump irrigation systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: What options exist for efficiency gains? by Foster, Timothy, Adhikari, Roshan, Urfels, Anton, Adhikari, Subash, Krupnik, Timothy J., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Rice Research Institute

“…Groundwater irrigation plays a critical role in supporting food security, rural livelihoods and economic development in South Asia. Yet, large disparities in groundwater access and use remain across the region. …”
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Is consanguinity an impediment to child development outcomes? by Mete, Cem, Bossavie, Laurent, Giles, John, Alderman, Harold

“…Marriages between blood relatives – also known as consanguineous unions – are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia and most parts of South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward as the decision to marry a relative might be endogenous to other socio-economic factors. …”
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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program: Quasi-experimental evidence from India by Pandey, Vivek, Gupta, Abhishek, Gupta, Shivani

“…Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. …”
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Feasibility of nationwide warehouse receipt system: An assessment of the potential for a nationwide warehouse receipt system and recommendation for the requisite legal and regulato... by Narayanan, Sudha, Hussain, Siraj, Rashid, Shahidur

“…To do this we review global evidence as well as evidence closer to home, within South Asia, to understand the pre-conditions and prerequisites for a successful system.…”
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Prevalence and consequences of mineral and vitamin deficiencies and interventions to reduce them by Boy, Erick

“…Few data exist on the aetiology of anaemia and Fe deficiency (ID) during early infancy in South Asia. The present study aimed to determine the contribution of ID, infections and feeding practices to anaemia in Bangladeshi infants aged 6–11 months. …”
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The biophysical potential for urea deep placement technology in lowland rice production systems of Ghana and Senegal by Cox, Cindy M., Kwon, Ho Young, Koo, Jawoo

“…Urea deep placement (UDP) technology has been widely adopted in lowland paddy rice production systems in South Asia, especially in Bangladesh. There is a growing interest to scale up UDP adoption in West African countries, such as Ghana and Senegal, but a limited number of studies have been published from the region to support developing strategies. …”
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Climate shocks and fertilizer responses: Field-level evidence for rice production in Bangladesh by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kishore, Avinash, Kumar, Anjani

“…Filling the evidence gap remains vital regarding fertilizer response in Asia, particularly in South Asia, given the evolution and emergence of new challenges, including intensifying climate shocks. …”
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2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming price spikes and excessive food price volatility by von Grebmer, Klaus, Torero, Maximo, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Fritschel, Heidi, Wiesmann, Doris, Yohannes, Yisehac, Schofield, Lilly, von Oppeln, Constanze

“…Most of the countries with alarming GHI scores are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Among the six countries in which the hunger situation worsened, the Democratic Republic of Congo stands out. …”
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An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects by Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla, Lapenu, Cecile

“…The paper concludes with a summary of results from four country case studies (two in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in South Asia, and one in Central America).…”
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries by Fan, Shenggen

“…Over the past 20 years, rapid economic growth in East Asia has reduced the total number of poor people from 800 million in 1981 to 270 million in 2001. In South Asia, during the same period the total number of poor people declined only marginally, from 480 million to 430 million. …”
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Small businesses, potentially large impacts: the role of fertilizer traders as agricultural extension agents in Bangladesh by Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, Rahut, Dil Bahadur, Erenstein, Olaf

“…Thus, this study concludes that small rural traders in Bangladesh are working as agricultural extension agents and provide necessary fertilizer application information to resource-poor farmers.This is a case study based on Bangladesh – an emerging economy in South Asia. The findings of the study may not be generalized for other countries.To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that confirms the role of agricultural input sellers as the extension agent in developing countries.…”
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Genetic diversity in lens species revealed by EST and genomic simple sequence repeat analysis by Dikshit, Harsh Kumar, Singh, Akanksha, Singh, Dharmendra, Aski, Muraleedhar, Prakash, Prapti, Jain, Neelu, Meena, Suresh, Kumar, Shiv, Sarker, Ashutosh

“…Low productivity of pilosae type lentils grown in South Asia is attributed to narrow genetic base of the released cultivars which results in susceptibility to biotic and abiotic stresses. …”
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From pledges to action: NDC 3.0 for poverty reduction and climate justice in Nepal by Chaudhary, Arbind, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Chaudhary, Bibek

“…Located in the heart of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, Nepal plays a vital geopolitical and ecological role in South Asia’s climate landscape. Although the country contributes less than 0.03 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions (MoFE 2020) and has extensive forest cover of 46 percent (MoFE 2025), it faces disproportionate risks from climate-induced disasters, such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), erratic monsoons, and prolonged droughts. …”
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Productivity and welfare impacts of sustainable intensification in rice-wheat crop rotations: Evidence from the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains by Paudel, Gokul, Chamberlin, Jordan, Nguyen, Trung Thanh

“…However, little is known about how SI technology bundles influence system productivity, profitability and household welfare in the coupled rice-wheat crop rotations of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in South Asia. We investigate the combined impacts of direct seeded rice (mDSR) and zero-tillage (ZT) wheat on system productivity, profitability and household welfare in the rice-wheat system of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 3A: Bridging knowledge & action: Nutrition education for all stakeholders by Farooqui, Arsala Jameel, Rathnayake, MPS, Malik, Mohammad Azeem, Wanasinghe, Thilak, Saroj, Rahman, Atiya

“…This work was presented as part of the conference, Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia: Towards Impact at Scale, which took place in Kathmandu, Nepal from December 2–4, 2025. …”
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Trade-offs between early planting and yellow rust resistance in wheat: Insights from screening experiments in the Indo-Gangetic plain by Farhad, Md, Tripathi, Shashi Bhushan, Singh, Ravi Prakash, Joshi, Arun, Bhati, Pradeep Kumar, Kumar, Uttam

“…A wheat screening experiment was carried out at the Borlaug Institute of South Asia located in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The purpose of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of the adaptation patterns of early planted wheat. …”
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Gender roles and greenhouse gas emissions in intensified agricultural systems in the mid-hills of Nepal by Raut, N, Raya, B, Sitaula, BK, Bajracharya R M, Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…Therefore the ongoing intensification of agriculture in South Asia may result in increasing N2O emissions.…”
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Water-land linkages: a relatively neglected issues in integrated water resources management by Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa

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Metering of agricultural power supply in West Bengal, India: who gains and who loses? by Mukherji, Aditi, Das, B., Majumdar, N., Nayak, N.C., Sethi, R.R., Sharma, Bharat R., Banerjee, Partha Sarathi

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