Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 43
Empowering women to enhance agricultural productivity
Despite prevailing social constraints, village-based seed enterprises are providing a route to empowerment.
Gender Research within a Systems Approach in the Dry Areas
Gender Research within a Systems Approach in the Dry Areas
Innovative Agriculture for Food Security: An integrated agro-ecosystems approach
Agricultural research has improved the lives of millions of people in
the past three decades. But today, poverty, hunger, lack of access
to food and nutrition remain a daily fact of life for millions of people
in many of ...
Spatiotemporal patterns of paddy rice croplands in China and India from 2000 to 2015
Due to rapid population growth and urbanization, paddy rice agriculture is experiencing substantial changes in the spatiotemporal pattern of planting areas in the two most populous countries—China and India—where food ...
Climate resilient wheat varieties introduced through international collaboration for enhanced food security in Central Asia
Climate of Central Asia is highly variable with extreme events for winter wheat production in Central Asia. Frequent occurrence of yellow rust disease epidemics poses serious threat to wheat production and food security ...
Assessment of wheat yield gap in Central Asia: Case studies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Wheat is by far the most important grain cultivated and consumed in Central Asia. It is
therefore an important crop for food security in this region. As a result of increased population
growth and food demands, sustainable ...
Role of geoinformatics in ensuing global food security with special reference to dryland agroecosystems
Agriculture plays an important role in providing
food security in developing countries. Better agricultural
information is one of the key factors in understanding current
trends and status that determine food security from ...
Responsiveness of chickpea to climate change
Appropriate changes in the genetic options are needed to cope up with the changing climate and farming
system to ensure food security and sustainable cereal production for the ever growing populations in
developing world. ...
Repositioning agricultural innovation systems in post-Soviet Central Asia
Transforming a centrally planned system of agricultural production to one where individual farmers are accorded choice in crop mix and land use management practices is much more than structural change. Embedded within this ...
Economics of Water Productivity Part I: Theoretical Background (May 5, 2016)
A presentation on What are the best ways of allocating scarce water to the many users that need it?
And how can we stimulate that agricultural technologies be used and/or adopted for use?. It was given during the Improving ...