Search Results - "South Asia"

Managing water productivity, groundwater stress, and nexus trade-offs in the Ganga River Basin, India by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Perera, Madhusha, Sikka, Alok, Mahapatra, Smaranika, Sarangi, A.

“…The Ganga River Basin (GRB) is a critical hotspot of the water-food-energy-environment (WFEE) nexus in South Asia, with severe pressures from groundwater over-extraction. …”
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Evaluating farmers' satisfaction from high-yielding rice (Oryza sativa) variety cultivation in boro season: evidence from adaptive trials in Bangladesh by Hassan, Md. Masudul, Habib, Muhammad Ashraful, Nayak, Swati, Jewel, Zilhas Ahmed, Resmi, Samira Islam, Hasan, Mahamudul

“…These findings reinforce ongoing policy discussions around sustainable rice intensification in South Asia.…”
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Cost and benefits of the National River Linking Project: an analysis of peninsular links by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Rajendran, S.

“…When and if completed, the NRLP forms a gigantic water grid covering most of South Asia. It envisages transferring 174 billion cubic meters (Bm3) of water across 34 river links and will cost about US$120 billion (2000 prices). …”
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Reviving the Ganges water machine: accelerating surface water and groundwater interactions in the Ramganga sub-basin by Surinaidu, L., Muthuwatta, Lal P., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Jain, S.K., Kumar, S., Singh, S.

“…Reviving the Ganges Water Machine (GWM), coined 40 years ago, is the most opportune solution for mitigating the impacts of recurrent droughts and floods in the Ganges River Basin in South Asia. GWM create subsurface storage (SSS) by pumping more groundwater from the aquifers before the monsoon for irrigation and other uses and recharge it during the monsoon. …”
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Increased water charges improve efficiency and equity in an irrigation system by Bell, A.R., Ward, Patrick S., Ali Shah, Azeem M.

“…Across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, only a handful can claim complete recovery of operation, maintenance, and capital costs; across Central and South Asia, fees are lower still, with farmers in Nepal, India, and Kazakhstan paying fractions of a U.S. penny for a cubic meter of water. …”
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Characterization of bovine milk from indigenous species from Sri Lanka by Skager, Jonathan

“…Sri Lanka is a country in south Asia that from the beginning of the 21st century, until 2016 almost doubled their quantity in milk import, this to meet their national market demand for dairy products. …”
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CGIAR Review 2018 CCAFS Case study by Pillot, Didier, Dugue, Marie-Jo

“…Due to the importance given to adapt to local specificities (institutionally and ecologically), the findings directly connected to the local environment might have been slightly different in South-East or South Asia, or Latin America, the three other regional programmes of the CCAFS. …”
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Back by popular demand: the benefits of traditional vegetables: One community's story by Moore, C., Raymond, R.D.

“…Like Andean grains, the minor millets of South Asia are very nutritious and well suited to marginal lands. …”
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Utilizing floodwaters for recharging depleted aquifers and sustaining irrigation: lessons from multi-scale assessments in the Ganges River Basin, India by Pavelic, Paul, Sikka, Alok, Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Sharma, Bharat R., Muthuwatta, Lal P., Eriyagama, Nishadi, Villholth, Karen G., Shalsi, S., Mishra, V. K., Jha, S. K., Verma, C.L., Sharma, N., Reddy, V.R., Rout, S.K., Kant, L., Govindan, M., Gangopadhyay, P., Brindha, K., Chinnasamy, P., Smakhtin, V.

“…It has been identified that there is potential for implementing the UTFI approach across large parts of South Asia. The first pilot-scale implementation of UTFI was carried out in a rural community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain in India, and performance of the approach was assessed over three years from a technical, environmental, socioeconomic and institutional perspective. …”
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Sustainability analysis of irrigation water management in Punjab, Pakistan by Abid, M., Hafeez, Mohsin, Watto, M. A.

“…Water productivity in the Punjab is one of the lowest in the South Asia region due to use of traditional irrigation practices with low irrigation and application efficiency. …”
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Compost quality and markets are pivotal for sustainability in circular food-nutrient systems: a case study of Sri Lanka by Roy, E. D., Esham, M., Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Otoo, M., Koliba, C., Wijethunga, I. B., Fein-Cole, M. J.

“…Sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a critical issue around the world, especially in South Asia where waste generation is expected to double by 2050. …”
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First report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4, causing Fusarium wilt in Cavendish bananas in Peru by Acuña, Rosalyn, Rouard, Mathieu, Leiva Sandoval, Ana Maria, Marques, Claudio, Olortegui, Arturo, Ureta, Cledy, Cabrera-Pintado, Rosa M., Rojas, Juan Carlos, López, Diana, Cenci, Alberto, Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose, Dita Rodriguez, Miguel Angel

“…Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4), the causal agent of Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), is currently the major threat to the banana industry worldwide (Dita et al. 2018). Restricted to South Asia for more than 20 years, Foc TR4 has spread in the last years to the Middle East, Mozambique, and Colombia (García-Bastidas et al. 2019; https://pestdisplace.org/embed/news/map/disease/11). …”
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Capturing genetic variability and identification of promising drought-tolerant lines in exotic landrace derived population under reproductive drought stress in rice by Venkateshwarlu, Challa, Kole, Paresh Chandra, Paul, Pronob J., Singh, Arun Kumar, Singh, Vikas Kumar, Kumar, Arvind

“…An experiment was designed under irrigated non-stress and drought-stress situations involving an exotic drought-tolerant landrace (Chao Khaw) and a high-yielding aromatic rice cultivar (Kasturi), and an F2:4 derived population of 156 breeding lines was developed at IRRI South Asia Hub, Hyderabad. The objective of the study was to assess the genetic variability, drought tolerance behavior, and identify promising breeding lines for different rice ecologies and drought breeding programs. …”
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Potential of Crop Simulation Models to Increase Food and Nutrition Security Under a Changing Climate in Nepal by Devkota, Krishna, Timsina, Jagadish, Amgain, Lal P, Devkota Wasti, Mina Kumari

“…We reviewed around 95 published papers and reports from South Asia and Nepal available in Scopus, SpringerLink, and ScienceDirect using the Google search engine. …”
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A multi-country validation and sensitivity analysis of the project level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI) by Seymour, Greg, Faas, Simone, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Heckert, Jessica, Malapit, Hazel J., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Quisumbing, Agnes R., van Biljon, Chloe, Gender Agriculture Assets Project Phase 2 Study Team

“…We present supporting empirical results comparing projects’ impacts calculated using the abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) (the predecessor to pro-WEAI with fewer indicators and less stringent indicator cut-offs), the pilot 12-indicator version of pro-WEAI, and the final, revised 10-indicator version of pro-WEAI, based on longitudinal data from six agricultural development projects in East and West Africa and South Asia as part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2). …”
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Biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Can Meaningfully Reduce the Burden of Vitamin A Deficiency by Lividini, K., Campos, Hugo, Heck, S., Birol, E., Hareau, G.

“…Objectives: Inadequate vitamin A (VA) production and apparent intake are prevalent in Africa and South Asia where the disease burden of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is concentrated. …”
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Genetic dissection of value-added quality traits and agronomic parameters through genome-wide association mapping in bread wheat (T. aestivum L.) by Vishwakarma, Manish K., Bhati, Pradeep K., Kumar, Uttam, Singh, Ravi P., Kumar, Sundeep, Velu, Govindan, Gurvinder Singh Mavi, Thiyagarajan, Karthikeyan, Dhar, Narain, Joshi, Arun K.

“…In addition, the panel was also phenotyped for grain yield and related traits such as days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, and thousand kernel weight for the year 2017-18 at the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) Ludhiana and Jabalpur sites. We performed a genome-wide association analysis on this panel using 18,351 genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) markers to find marker-trait associations for quality and grain yield-related traits. …”
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Multi-year weed community dynamics and rice yields as influenced by tillage, crop establishment, and weed control: Implications for rice-maize rotations in the eastern Gangetic pla... by Hossain, Khaled, Timsina, Jagadish, Johnson, David E., Gathala, Mahesh K., Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…In South Asia's rice-based cropping systems, most farmers flood and repetitively till their fields before transplanting. …”
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Drainage and leaching losses of nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon after introducing maize into a continuous paddy-rice crop rotation by He, Yao, Lehndorff, Eva, Amelung, Wulf, Wassmann, Reiner, Alberto, Ma. Carmelita, von Unold, Georg, Siemens, Jan

“…Farmers in South Asia increasingly switch from continuous paddy-rice cropping to rotations including non-flooded crops, such as growing maize in the dry season. …”
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D4N2024 Presentation Showcase – THEMATIC SESSION 6a: Nutrition knowledge and access to information by Priyanka, Pagadala Sai, Rathnayake, Menikgedara Poornima Sujeewa, Malla, Neha, Choubey, Aishwarya, Rashid, Mortahina, Sharmin, Shahnaz, Sultana, Sabiha, Chatterjee, Anwesha, Dey, Nepal C.

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