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Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India
Access to food, water, and good air quality is indispensable for human life, as reflected in various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); however, pursuing food security may pose threats to water security ...
Final Technical Report 2020-2: Economic Impact Assessment of Improved Technology Adopted by Lentil Growers in West Bengal Compilation of Findings and Research Highlights
An unsatisfactory gain in pulse productivity since last six decades in India emerges severe threat to
the overall food and nutritional security and also resilient livelihood of the nation. Due to failure of
National Food ...
Potential of Crop Simulation Models 23 to Increase Food and Nutrition Security Under a Changing Climate in Nepal
With current trends of increasing population, decreasing arable land, and a low yearly increment rate of cereal productivity, Nepal has an annual deficit of >1.3 million tons of edible rice, wheat, and maize. This indicates ...
Achieving agronomic gain through zero-tillage and/or rice-straw mulching to grow potatoes in Asia: What do we know?
The rice-based systems have been recently recognized as the most critical plant source of C emission worldwide. Asia is the continent with higher rice production. Actions to get Sustainable Intensification (SI) of existing ...
Survival, morphological variability, and performance of Opuntia ficus-indica in a semi-arid region of India
Cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.) can survive extreme environmental condition and is known for its fodder potential in many parts of the world. The morphological diversity of 15 introduced accessions was evaluated ...
Iran/ICARDA Collaborative Project and Research and Training Program: Sixth Planning and Coordination Meeting 1998/99, 5-10 Sept 1998, Maragheh, Iran.
Collaboration projects between Dryland Agriculture Research Institute (DARI), Iran and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria.
Vegetation dynamics under different management interventions in arid rangelands of Rajasthan
An experiment was conducted from 2015 to 2017 on a community rangeland located in Ajeet Nagar, Bawarli, Jodhpur to study the effect of different management interventions and soil depths on vegetation characteristics. The ...
Driving Factors Behind the Adoption of Improved Technologies by Lentil Growers in West Bengal
Over the last six decades in India, there has been an unsatisfactory gain in pulse productivity, which is a severe threat to the creation of resilient livelihoods and the overall food and nutritional security of the country. ...
Does Maturity Change the Chemical-Bromatological Makeup of Cladodes in Spineless Forage Cactus?
In Kutch (Gujarat District, India), there is a growing concern about the lack of good quality forage owing to the arid climate and poor soil health. Opuntia ficus-indica has been increasingly recognized as a drought-resilient ...
Key takeaways from IWMI’s participation at the first-ever MENA Climate Week
The blog is on the Q&A discussion by Vidhisha Samarasekara, IWMI’s Strategic Program Director for Water, Climate Change, and Resilience, at the MENA Climate Week. In this Q&A, she discusses the conference’s influence in ...