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Scalable diversification options delivers sustainable and nutritious food in Indo-Gangetic plains by Gora, M.K., Kumar, Satish, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Kakraliya, S., Choudhary, M., Dhaka, A.K., Jat, Raj Kumar, Kakraliya, Manish, Sharma, Parbodh Chander, Jat, Mangi Lal

“…Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) of South Asia have supported bulk of human and bovine population in the region since ages, and a spectacular progress has been made in food production. …”
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Bundling subsurface drip irrigation with no-till provides a window to integrate mung bean with intensive cereal systems for improving resource use efficiency by Kakraliya, Manish, Jat, Hanuman S., Suresh Kumar, Kakraliya, S., Gora, Manoj Kumar, Poonia, Tanuja, Kumar, Satyendra, Choudhary, Madhu, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Sharma, Parbodh C., Jat, Mangi Lal

“…The future of South Asia’s major production system (rice–wheat rotation) is at stake due to continuously aggravating pressure on groundwater aquifers and other natural resources which will further intensify with climate change. …”
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Productivity of sodic soils can be enhanced through the use of salt tolerant rice varieties and proper agronomic practices by Singh, Y.P., Mishra, V.K., Singh, Sudhanshu, Sharma, D.K., Singh, D., Singh, U.S., Singh, R.K., Haefele, S.M., Ismail, Abdelbagi M.

“…This approach of combining cost effective crop and nutrient management options and a salt-tolerant variety can maximize the productivity and profitability of sodic soils in the alluvial Indo-Gangetic plains and in neighboring salt-affected areas of the Ganges mega delta in South Asia…”
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Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects: A synthesis of mixed methods impact evaluations from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GA... by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Malapit, Hazel J., Seymour, Greg, Heckert, Jessica, Doss, Cheryl, Johnson, Nancy L., Rubin, Deborah, Ramani, Gayathri V., Myers, Emily, van Biljon, Chloe, Mulema, Annet, Hannan, Anika, Go, Ara, Argento, Federica, Ahmed, Akhter, Roy, Shalini, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, de Brauw, Alan, Kramer, Berber, Murphy, Mike, Crookston, Benjamin, Gash, Megan, Theis, Sophie, Bellemare, Marc, Casier, Bart, James, Susan, Krause, Brooke, Lardinois, Mathias, McCarthy, Aine, Gabrysch, Sabine, Sinharoy, Sheela, Waid, Jillian, Wendt, Amanda, Ganaba, Rasmane, Gelli, Aulo, Martinez, Elena M., Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Sanou, Armande, Zougouri, Sita, Alonso, Silvia, Galiè, Alessandra, Kakota, Tasokwa, Leroy, Jef L., Palloni, Giordano, Bryan, Elizabeth, Miah, Mamun, Kumar, Neha, Siraj, Saiqa, Alemu, Mihret, Boonabaana, Brenda, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Kaaria, Susan, Hillesland, Marya, Mane, Erdgin, Slavchevska, Vanya, Choudhury, Avijit, Khetan, Madhu, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Thai, Giang, Gray, Bobbi, Benali, Marwan, Janzen, Sarah, Joshi, Neena, Magnan, Nicholas, Pradhan, Rajendra, Sharma, Sudhindra

“…This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2). …”
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Policy and institutional study on the strategic role of water storage in Nepal by Jirasinha, Radheeka, de Silva, Sanjiv, McCartney, Matthew P., Aryal, Anil, KC, Jibesh

“…This policy and institutional study was conducted as part of the Built Water Storage in South Asia (BWSSA) project (2023–2026) implemented by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP). …”
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Policy and institutional study on the strategic role of water storage in Bangladesh by de Silva, Sanjiv, Jirasinha, Radheeka, Mondal, M. S., McCartney, Matthew P.

“…This policy and institutional study was conducted as part of the Built Water Storage in South Asia (BWSSA) project (2023–2026), implemented by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP). …”
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Förekomsten av aflatoxin B1 och ochratoxin A i kött och mjölk från livsmedelsproducerande djur samt dess påverkan på livsmedelssäkerheten by Möller, Maja

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Evaluation study of the IFPRI/A4NH research program on diet quality and health of the poor by Behrman, Jere R., Ghosh, Shibani

“…During this timeframe, the work of the research program was carried out through some 140 projects, among which some of the most important were Alive & Thrive (A&T), Partners and Opportunities for Strengthening and Harmonizing Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), Transform Nutrition (TN), Stories of Change (SoC), Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), and Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA), with funding from a number of donors. …”
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Evolution of Market Segmentation and Target Product Profile Development in the CIP Potato and Sweetpotato Breeding Programs by Friedmann, M., Chaudari, S., Mendes, T., Polar, Vivian, Ssali, R.T.

“…The questionnaire was shared with the CIP sweetpotato breeders based in Uganda, and lead potato breeders for South Asia and Southeast Asia, and East Africa. This was followed with individual interviews with the breeders to expand on some points discussed in the questionnaire.…”
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HER VOICE Newsletter fourth edition by Awinoh, Martha

“…WP EMPOWER designed and tested Socially Transformative Innovation Bundles (STIBs) across 11 learning labs in Africa and South Asia, targeting climate-smart agriculture and value chains. …”
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Water budgeting in conservation agriculture-based sub-surface drip irrigation using HYDRUS-2D in rice under annual rotation with wheat in Western Indo-Gangetic Plains by Rana, Biswajit, Parihar, Chiter Mal, Nayak, Harisankar, Patra, Kiranmoy, Singh, Vijendra Kumar, Singh, Dharmendra K., Pandey, Renu, Abdallah, Ahmed M., Gupta, Naveen, Sidhu, Harminder Singh, Gerard, Bruno G., Jat, Mangi Lal

“…Rapidly depleting groundwater in western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is a major threat to food security in South Asia. Conventional tillage-based and flood irrigated puddled transplanted rice (PTR) is a major contributor to faster depleting aquifers. …”
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A global assessment of the state of plant health by Acuña, Ivette, Andrade-Piedra, Jorge, Andrivon, Didier, Armengol, Josep, Elizabeth Arnold, A., Avelino, Jacques, Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Bihon Legesse, Wubetu, Bock, Clive H., Bove, Federica, Brenes-Arguedas, Tania, Calonnec, Agnès, Carmona, Marcelo, Carnegie, Angus J., Castilla, Nancy P., Chen, Xianming, Coletta-Filho, Helvecio Della, Coley, Phyllis D., Cox, Kerik D., Davey, Triona, Del Ponte, Emerson, Denman, Sandra, Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure, Dewdney, Megan M., Djurle, Annika, Drenth, André, Ducousso, Alexis, Esker, Paul, Fiaboe, Komi M., Hendrik Fourie, Paul, Frankel, Susan J., Frey, Pascal, Garcia-Figuera, Sara, Garrett, Karen A., Guérin, Maxime, Hardy, Giles E.St.J., Hausladen, Hans, Hu, Xiaoping, Hüberli, Daniel, Juzwik, Jennifer, Kang, Zhensheng, Kenyon, Lawrence, Kreuze, Jan, Kromann, Peter, Kubiriba, Jerome, Kuhnem, Paulo, Kumar, J., Lava Kumar, P., Lebrun, Marc-Henri, Legg, James P., Leon, Anna, Ma, Zhanhong, Mahuku, George, Makinson, Robert O., Marzachi, Cristina, McDonald, Bruce A., McRoberts, Neil, Menkir, Abebe, Mikaberidze, Alexey, Munck, Isabel A., Nelson, Andrew, Nguyen, Nga Thi Thu, O’Gara, Emer, Ojiambo, Peter, Ortega-Beltran, Alejandro, Paul, Pierce, Pethybridge, Sarah, Pinon, Jean, Ramsfield, Tod, Rizzo, David M., Rossi, Vittorio, Safni, Irda, Sah, Sonam, Santini, Alberto, Sautua, Francisco, Savary, Serge, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Singh, Manjari, Spear, Erin R., Srinivasan, Ramasamy, Tripathi, Leena, Vicent, Antonio, Viljoen, Altus, Willocquet, Laetitia, Woods, Alex John, Wu, Boming, Xia, Xianchun, Xu, Xiangming, Yuen, Jonathan, Zalamea, Paul-Camilo, Zhou, Changyong

“…Results further call for the need to improve crop health to ensure food security in the most populated parts of the world, such as in South Asia, where the poorest of the poor, the landless farmers, are at the greatest risk. …”
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Ecosystem assessment of food, land, and water actors in the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus by Song, H., Sarangé, C., Oderoh, A., Dahl, Hauke, Jacobs-Mata, Inga

“…This market report conducts a market assessment across 14 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia to inform a science-driven acceleration programme to scale CGIAR innovations in FCAS. …”
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Can agricultural development projects empower women? A synthesis of mixed methods evaluations using pro-WEAI in the gender, agriculture, and assets project (phase 2) portfolio by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Malapit, Hazel J., Seymour, Greg, Heckert, Jessica, Doss, Cheryl R., Johnson, Nancy L., Rubin, Deborah, Thai, Giang, Ramani, Gayathri V., Myers, Emily, GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team, Dione, Malick, Pereira, Audrey, Van Biljon, Chloe, Vaz, Ana, Elias, Marlène, Annet Mulema, Go, Ara, Argento, Federica, Ahmed, Akhter, Hannan, Anika, Younus, Masuma, de Brauw, Alan, Dey, Amita, Kramer, Berber, Murphy, Mike, Benjamin Crookston, Megan Gash, Gray, Bobbi, Benali, Marwan, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Sobgui, Caroline, Janzen, Sarah, Joshi, Neena, Magnan, Nicholas, Pradhan, Rajendra, Sudhindra Sharma, Theis, Sophie, Bellemare, Marc, Casier, Bart, James, Susan, Krause, Brooke, Mathias Lardinois, McCarthy, Aine, Sabine Gabrysch, Sinharoy, Sheela, Waid, Jillian, Wendt, Amanda, Awonon, Josué, Ganaba, Rasmané, Gelli, Aulo, Martinez, Elena M., Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Sanou, Armande, Zougouri, Sita, Alonso, Silvia, Galiè, Alessandra, Tasokwa Kakota, Leroy, Jef L., Palloni, Giordano, Bryan, Elizabeth, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Mamun Miah, Kumar, Neha, Siraj, Saiqa, Alemu, Mihret, Boonabaana, Brenda, Ana Paula de la Ocampo, Kaaria, Susan, Hillesland, Marya, Erdgin Mane, Slavchevska, Vanya, Choudhury, Avijit, Madhu Khetan, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a portfolio of 13 agricultural development projects in nine countries in South Asia and Africa, developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and qualitative protocols for impact evaluations. …”
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Co-design and implementation of Index Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) in flood proofing communities of Mazabuka District, southern Zambia by Umer, Yakob, Makungwe, Mirriam, Amarnath, Giriraj, Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Banda, N., Njoroge, M.

“…IWMI has developed the IBFI concept in South Asia covering India and Bangladesh using an integrated approach of combining flood model and earth observation data to flood proofing among vulnerable populations (Amarnath et al. 2024). …”
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From neglect to limelight: Issues, methods and approaches in enhancing sustainable conservation and use of Andean grains in Bolivia and Peru by Rojas, Wilfredo, Valdivia, Roberto, Padulosi, Stefano, Pinto, Milton, Soto, José Luis, Alcócer, Elsa, Guzmán, Lorena, Estrada Zúniga, Rigoberto, Apaza Mamani, Vidal, Bravo, Rosario

“…As with minor millets in South Asia or leafy vegetables in sub-Saharan Africa (ONIANG’O et al., 2006), the case of Andean grains is representative of the limits of the Green Revolution approach, which concentrated its efforts on global commodity crops, missing out hundreds of other valuable species of regional or local importance and of great value to people’s livelihoods (PADULOSI 2008). …”
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Value chain interventions for improving women's economic empowerment: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis: A systematic review by Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor, Mantri, Swati, Gupta, Neha, Bhandari, Ratika, Armah, Ralph Nii, Alhassan, Hamdiyah, Young, Sarah, White, Howard, Puskur, Ranjitha, Waddington, Hugh Sharma, Masset, Edoardo

“…Those interventions implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are consistently more successful for all outcomes considered, although there are few studies conducted in other areas of the world. …”
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Can productivity and profitability be enhanced in intensively managed cereal systems while reducing the environmental footprint of production? Assessing sustainable intensification... by Kumar, Virender, Jat, Hanuman S., Sharma, Parbodh C., Balwinder-Singh, Gathala, Mahesh K., Malik, Ram K., Kamboj, Baldev R., Yadav, Arvind K., Ladha, Jagdish K., Raman, Anitha, Sharma, D.K., McDonald, Andrew

“…Results do demonstrate that transformative opportunities exist to break the cycle of stagnating yields and inefficient resource use in the most productive cereal-based cropping systems of South Asia. However, these SI entry points need to be placed in the context of the major drivers of change in the region, including market conditions, risks, and declining labor availability, and matching with the needs and interests of different types of farmers…”
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Exploring solution spaces for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Kenya and Vietnam by Timler, Carl, Alvarez, Stéphanie, DeClerck, Fabrice, Remans, Roseline, Raneri, Jessica, Estrada Carmona, Natalia, Mashingaidze, Nester, Chatterjee, Shantonu Abe, Chiang, Tsai Wei, Termote, Celine, Yang, Ray-Yu, Descheemaeker, Katrien, Brouwer, Inge D., Kennedy, Gina, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Smallholder agriculture is an important source of livelihoods in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In these regions the highest concentrations of nutritionally vulnerable populations are found. …”
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Reviews and syntheses: An empirical spatiotemporal description of the global surface–atmosphere carbon fluxes: opportunities and data limitations by Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M.D., Avitabile, V., Calle, L., Carvalhais, N., Ciais, Philippe, Gans, F., Gruber, N., Hartmann, J., Herold, M., Ichii, Kazuhito, Jung, M., Landschütze, P., Laruelle, G.G., Lauerwald, R., Papale, D., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Ray, D., Regnier, P., Rödenbeck, C., Román Cuesta, Rosa María, Schwalm, C., Tramontana, G., Tyukavina, A., Valentini, R., Werf, G. van der, West, T.O., Wolf, J.E., Reichstein, M.

“…This holds for Europe (mean ± 1 SD: 0.8 ± 0.1 PgC yr−1, positive numbers are sources to the atmosphere), Russia (0.1 ± 0.4 PgC yr−1), East Asia (1.6 ± 0.3 PgC yr−1), South Asia (0.3 ± 0.1 PgC yr−1), Australia (0.2 ± 0.3 PgC yr−1), and most of the Ocean regions. …”
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