Search Results - "South Asia"

CEDIL Work-in-Freedom 2 Bangladesh Migration Dataset by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…WiF-2 aims "to reduce vulnerability to trafficking and forced labor of women and girls across migration pathways leading to the care sector and textiles, clothing, leather and footwear industries (TCLFI) of South Asia and the Arab States" (TOC WiF-2). Forced migration includes deceptive or coercive recruitment, abuse of vulnerable situations, exploitative conditions of work, coercion at the destination, and abuse of vulnerability at the destination. …”
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The risks of multiple breadbasket failures in the 21st century: A science research agenda by Janetos, Anthony, Justice, Christopher, Jahn, Molly, Obersteiner, Michael, Glauber, Joseph W., Mulhern, William

“…In a recent study of global hotspots of heat stress due to climate change, Teixeira et al (2013) showed areas of Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and North America, which include the major grain producing areas of the world, as being particularly vulnerable. …”
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Genome-wide association and genomic prediction study of elite spring bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes under drought conditions across different locations by Ed-Daoudy, Lamyae, Zakaria, EL Gataa, Sbabou, Laila, Tadesse, Wuletaw

“…Abiotic stress, notably drought, impacts wheat production globally, but more so in central and South Asia, North Africa (CWANA), and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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Task or time? Comparing methods for measuring the gender distribution of work by Banerjee, Archis, Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…In this paper, we compare data collected using the task allocation module in the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) integrated household survey and the time-use module in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) survey. …”
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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture by Rashid, Shahidur, Gulati, Ashok, Cummings, Jr., Ralph

“…Experts in agricultural policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) to answer these questions; and a concluding chapter synthesizes these countries' experiences with price stabilization programs. …”
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries by Fan, Shenggen

“…The findings from those studies have been brought together in a new book, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries (published for IFPRI by the Johns Hopkins University Press and, in South Asia, by Oxford University Press). The approach used in the book differs from previous work in that it considers multiple types of government spending, including investments in agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, and social safety nets; recognizes that investments have a direct impact on poverty reduction through multiple channels; and links the effects of public investment to its overall social benefits and cost, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework.…”
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Carbon and nitrogen mineralization in dark grey calcareous floodplain soil is influenced by tillage practices and residue retention by Salahin, Nazmus, Alam, Md. Khairul, Ahmed, Sharif, Jahiruddin, Mohammad, Gaber, Ahmed, Alsanie, Walaa F., Hossain, Akbar, Bell, Richard W.

“…Very little is known about the changes that occur in soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) under an intensive rice-based cropping system following the change to minimal tillage and increased crop residue retention in the Gangetic Plains of South Asia. The field experiment was conducted for 3 years at Rajbari, Bangladesh to examine the impact of tillage practices and crop residue retention on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. …”
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Rice breeding for yield under drought has selected for longer flag leaves and lower stomatal density by Kumar, Santosh, Tripathi, Santosh, Singh, Suresh Prasad, Prasad, Archana, Akter, Fahamida, Syed, Md Abu, Badri, Jyothi, Das, Sankar Prasad, Bhattarai, Rudra, Natividad, Mignon A., Quintana, Marinell, Venkateshwarlu, Challa, Raman, Anitha, Yadav, Shailesh, Singh, Shravan K., Swain, Padmini, Anandan, A., Yadaw, Ram Baran, Mandal, Nimai P., Verulkar, S.B., Kumar, Arvind, Henry, Amelia

“…In separate trials in the Philippines, the same breeding lines studied in South Asia showed that canopy temperature under drought and harvest index across treatments were most correlated with grain yield. …”
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Assessing soil properties and nutrient availability under conservation agriculture practices in a reclaimed sodic soil in cereal-based systems of North-West India by Jat, H.S., Datta, Ashim, Sharma, P.C., Kumar, Virender, Yadav, A.K., Choudhary, Madhu, Choudhary, Vishu, Gathala, M.K., Sharma, D.K., Jat, M.L., Yaduvanshi, N. P. S., Singh, Gurbachan, McDonald, A.

“…Soil quality degradation associated with resources scarcity is the major concern for the sustainability of conventional rice-wheat system in South Asia. Replacement of conventional management practices with conservation agriculture (CA) is required to improve soil quality. …”
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Evaluation of the effects of mulch on optimum sowing date and irrigation management of zero till wheat in central Punjab, India using APSIM by Balwinder-Singh, Humphreys, E., Gaydon, D.S., Eberbach, P.L.

“…Machinery for sowing wheat directly into rice residues has become more common in the rice-wheat systems of the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, with increasing numbers of farmers now potentially able to access the benefits of residue retention. …”
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Tillage and planting methods effects on yield, water use efficiency and profitability of soybean-wheat system on a loamy sand soil by Ram, Hari, Singh, Yadvinder, Saini, K.S., Kler, D.S., Timsina, J.

“…Continuous rice–wheat (RW) cropping with intensive tillage has resulted in land degradation and inefficient use of water in Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia. Replacement of rice with less water requiring crops such as soybean in RW system and identification of effective strategies for tillage management could result in sustainable cropping system in IGP. …”
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Potassium fertilization in rice-wheat system across Northern India: crop performance and soil nutrients by Singh, Vinod K., Dwivedi, Brahma S., Buresh, Roland J., Jat, M.L., Majumdar, Kaushik, Gangwar, Babooji, Govil, Vidhi, Singh, Susheel K.

“…–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping in South Asia is under stress due to widespread removal of plant nutrients in excess of their application. …”
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Tillage and crop establishment affects sustainability of South Asian rice-wheat system by Gathala, Mahesh K., Ladha, J.K., Kumar, Vivak, Saharawat, Yashpal S., Kumar, Virender, Sharma, Paradeep Kumar, Sharma, Sheetal, Pathak, Himanshu

“…–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the major cropping system occupying 13.5 million ha in the Indo‐Gangetic Plains of South Asia. Conventional‐tillage practices are resource and cost intensive. …”
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Bioengineered ‘golden’ indica rice cultivars with β‐carotene metabolism in the endosperm with hygromycin and mannose selection systems by Datta, Karabi, Baisakh, Niranjan, Oliva, Norman, Torrizo, Lina, Abrigo, Editha, Tan, Jing, Rai, Mayank, Rehana, Sayda, Al-Babili, Salim, Beyer, Peter, Potrykus, Ingo, Datta, Swapan K.

“…Vitamin‐A deficiency (VAD) is a major malnutrition problem in South Asia, where indica rice is the staple food. Indica‐type rice varieties feed more than 2 billion people. …”
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Yield and soil fertility trends in a 20-year rice-rice-wheat experiment in Nepal by Regmi, A.P., Ladha, J.K., Pathak, H., Pasuquin, E., Bueno, C., Dawe, D., Hobbs, P.R., Joshy, D., Maskey, S.L., Pandey, S.P.

“…–wheat (Triticum aestivumL.) cropping system occupies about 13.5 million ha in South Asia and is important for the region's food security. …”
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Do empowerment impacts endure? The medium-term impacts of the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Project in Bangladesh by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Rakshit, Deboleena

“…A synthesis of findings from a portfolio of 11 agricultural development projects in South Asia and Africa suggests that, while projects are able to affect aspects of empowerment such as decisionmaking over resources and control over income, changes in gender norms are more difficult to achieve in the two to three year time span over which impact evaluations are typically conducted(Quisumbing et al. 2024). …”
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Evaluating the impact of climate variability and water hazards on vector-borne disease patterns to develop early warning signals by Jampani, Mahesh, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…The current research highlights the impacts of climate change with case studies from Senegal in West Africa on malaria prevalence and Sri Lanka in South Asia on dengue prevalence. These two case studies utilized earth observation and recorded case data to evaluate the intrinsic links between water, climate, disease prevalence, and health risks using statistical and spatial analysis and predictive modeling. …”
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Wild Lathyrus—A Treasure of Novel Diversity by Singh, Akanksha, Balech, Rind, Barpete, Surendra, Gupta, Priyanka, Bouhlal, Outmane, Tawkaz, Sawsan, Kaul, Smita, Tripathi, Kuldeep, Amri, Ahmed, Maalouf, Fouad, Gupta, Sanjeev, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar

“…Among these, Lathyrus sativus is widely cultivated as food, feed, and fodder in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) regions. …”
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Farm differentiation and intervention targeting in Mixed Farming Systems of Coastal and Inland Bangladesh by Mponela, Powell, Ahmed, Sharif, Farah Deba Keya, Ishrat Jahanara, Masud Rana, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Such criterion often ensures project success and impact but potentially widens inequality if uncoordinated. In South Asia, despite the general improvement in farm productivity, not all farmers have benefited and wide variability in performance persist. …”
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Crops that feed the world 10: Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security by Shiferaw, Bekele, Smale, Melinda, Braun, Hans-Joachim, Duveiller, Etienne, Reynolds, Mathew, Muricho, Geoffrey

“…The enduring lessons from the GR and the recent efforts for sustainable intensification of cereal systems in South Asia and other regions provide useful insights for the future.…”
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