Resultados de búsqueda - "india"

Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum of care: Time to act at scale por Gillespie, Stuart, Menon, Purnima, Heidkamp, Rebecca A., Piwoz, Ellen G., Rawat, Rahul

“…Case studies—of growth monitoring and screening for acute malnutrition, infant and young child feeding counselling, and nutrition monitoring in India—highlight both challenges and potential solutions. …”
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A snapshot of agricultural research investment and capacity in Asia por Stads, Gert-Jan

“…Most of the growth in regional spending was driven by China. Spending in India and Indonesia has also increased substantially since 2000. …”
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Asymmetric information on non-cognitive skills in the Indian labor market: An experiment using an online job portal por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Nomura, Shinsaku, Imaizumi, Saori, Areias, Ana C, Chowdhury, Afra R

“…This paper examines the impact of non-cognitive (socio-emotional) skills on job market outcomes using a randomized control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered in the portal were asked to take a Big Five type personality test and, for a random sub-sample of the test takers, the results were displayed to potential employers. …”
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A4NH 2015 annual report por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…The successful Together for Nutrition initiative expanded from India to Ethiopia, bringing together a range of nutrition stakeholders. …”
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Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities por Ward, Patrick S., Alvi, Muzna, Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…In this paper, we explore the propensity for cooperation in the management of local common resources by introducing a varient of a public goods game among remote rural communities in the state of Odisha, in eastern India. We explore various patterns of cooperation, including free riding behavior, uncoditional cooperation (altruism), and conditional cooperation, in which individuals’ propensisty toward cooperation is tied to their beliefs about the level of cooperation among their peers. …”
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Market integration with ASEAN and beyond: The case of Myanmar por Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Vr, Renjini, Roy, Devesh

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Impact of contract farming on profits and yield of smallholder farms in Nepal: An evidence from lentil cultivation por Kumar, Anjani, Roy, Devesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Tripathi, Gaurav, Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad

“…The positive impact of CF on farmers’ profits can help Nepal in harnessing the growing demand for pulses, especially in neighboring international markets, like India.…”
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Overview: Structural change, fundamentals, and growth por McMillan, Margaret S., Rodrik, Dani, Sepúlveda, Claudia

“…This growth was led by the efforts of China, India, and a small number of other Asian countries, and assisted by the weaker economic performance of the rich countries. …”
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Policies based on demonstration effect could have suboptimal outcomes por Pradhan, Mamata, Roy, Devesh, Kishore, Avinash, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar

“…The debate in India regarding the delivery mechanism for the Public distribution System (PDS) has been polarised along the lines of cash versus kind transfer, inclusion criteria over exclusion criteria for beneficiary selection and the composition of product portfolio. …”
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Pustikar Diwas: Convergent action to reduce child undernutrition in Odisha por Narayan Parhi, Rabi, Saxton, Jenny

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Genetic diversity and population structure in banana (Musa spp.) breeding germplasm por Akech, V., Bengstsson, T., Ortiz, R., Swennen, R., Uwimana, B., Ferreira, C.F., Amah, D., Amorim, E.P., Blisset, E., Van den Houwe, I., Arinaitwe, I.K., Nice, L., Bwesigye, P., Tanksley, S., Uma, S., Suthanthiram, B., Saraswathi, M.S., Mduma, H., Brown, A.

“…We evaluated 856 Musa accessions from the breeding programs of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture of Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda; the National Agricultural Research Organization of Uganda; the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa); and the National Research Centre for Banana of India. Accessions from the in vitro gene bank at the International Transit Centre in Belgium were included to provide a baseline of available global diversity. …”
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Is SAFTA trade creating or trade diverting? A computable general equilibrium assessment with a focus on Sri Lanka por Bouët, Antoine, Mevel, Simon, Thomas, Marcelle

“…The creation of a free trade area is expected to affect its participants—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in terms of size, income, and structure of trade and protection. …”
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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

“…Therefore, this study attempts to explore the different CSA technologies within the socio-economic context of six South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with the main objective of proioritization and scaling-up of these methods. …”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…It draws on data from 10 countries (India, the Philippines, Mozambique, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya) that encompass both poor and middle-income countries, rural and urban sectors, data collected in different seasons, and data on calories acquisition obtained using two different methods. ....…”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…It draws on data from 10 countries (India, the Philippines, Mozambique, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya) that encompass both poor and middle-income countries, rural and urban sectors, data collected in different seasons, and data on calories acquisition obtained using two different methods. ....…”
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Policies to promote environmentally sustainable fertilizer use and supply to 2020 por Bumb, Balu L., Baanante, Carlos A.

“…On the contrary, fertilizer use was an integral part of the technological trinity--improved seed, irrigation, and fertilizer--responsible for bringing about the Green Revolution that helped many densely populated countries, including India and China, achieve food self-sufficiency in the short span of 20 to 25 years. …”
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Women's Voice and Agency in the MGNREGA in Odisha: Baseline Data por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset contains baseline information for the project "Women's Voice and Agency in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Odisha," conducted in April-May 2023 across five districts in the eastern coastal state of Odisha, India. The study aimed to evaluate interventions designed to enhance women’s voice and agency in selecting assets to be created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a national workfare program. …”
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Univariate versus multivariate flood frequency analysis in tropical region: Employing two classes of hydrological models por Deb, Proloy, Malakar, Pragnaditya, Bora, Pradip Kumar, Dubey, Swatantra Kumar

“…Moreover, there is also a decade‐long critical question whether less data requiring hydrological models can be an alternate to the data‐intensive models in flood prediction, especially in a developing tropical country like India? To answer these questions, this study aims in comparing two types of hydrological models (IHACRES, a less data requiring model, and VIC‐3L, a data‐intensive model) in simulating the peak flows, following which the simulated peak flows are used in a detailed comparison of the univariate and bivariate flood frequency analysis. …”
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What drives consumer demand for packaged rice? Evidence from South and Southeast Asia por Bairagi, Subir, Gustafson, Christopher R., Custodio, Marie Claire, Ynion, Jhoanne, Demont, Matty

“…However, urban market shares of packaged rice are highly heterogeneous among countries and range from 11% in the Philippines to 18% in Vietnam, 45% in India, 51% in Indonesia, 58% in Cambodia, 63% in Bangladesh, and up to 64% in Thailand. …”
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Source-sink relations and effects of postanthesis canopy defoliation in wheat at low latitudes por Aggarwal, P.K., Fischer, R.A., Liboon, S.P.

“…Source–sink balance was studied by imposing different canopy defoliation treatments on wheat crops grown in Los Banos (Philippines) in 1985/86 and 1986/87, Sonora (Mexico) in 1972/73 and 1974/75 and New Delhi (India) in 1987/88. The crops were grown in replicated trials with optimum cultural management. …”
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