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Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India
Purpose: Changing climate has increasingly become a challenge for smallholder farmers.
Identification of technical, institutional and policy interventions as coping and adaptation
strategies, and exploring risks of their ...
Analyze drivers for sustainable management of CPRs
The study was undertaken in three villages in western Rajasthan, India: Govindpura/Jodhpur, Dhok/Barmer, and Damodara/Jaisalmer. The selection of sites was based on community and experts’ consultation, secondary data and ...
Potential of Small Ruminants in Andhra Pradesh for promoting rural livelihoods: Institutional and policy gaps to be addressed
Small ruminants play an important role in the food and nutritional security of millions of rural people
especially the landless, marginal and small farmers in rainfed regions in India as well as in Andhra
Pradesh. The ...
Characterization of crop fallows for agricultural intensification, length of crop fallows duration between two crops in one year in Eastern Gangetic plains from 2000 to 2014.
Characterization of the crop fallows using remote sensing for agricultural intensification and diversification in Eastern Gangetic plains. Time series satellite data (MODIS and Landsat) were used to map the length of crop ...
Establishment of Seed Plots by Participatory Entrepreneurs
Wheat and lentil are important crops to ensure food and nutritional security in dryland region. However, yield of these crops is quite low. Farmers plant local varieties using their own unimproved seeds. Low crop yield ...
ICRISAT and GRAVIS develop models for sustainable management of community silvi-pasture systems in Jodhpur, Barmer and Jaisalmer
In western Rajasthan the common pastures resources are very important for sustaining rural livelihoods, with livestock being the most resilient component in such ecosystems. However, the common pastures in this region ...
Characterization of crop fallows for agricultural intensification, Mapping end date of crop fallows in Eastern Gangetic plains from 2000 to 2014.
Characterization of the crop fallows using remote sensing for agricultural intensification and diversification in Eastern Gangetic plains. Time series satellite data (MODIS and Landsat) were used to map the length of crop ...
Participatory Selection of Promising Wheat, Chickpea and Lentil Cultivars (Chakwal-Pakistan)
3 promising variety (Wheat, Chickpea and lentil) selected based on farmers evaluation and data analysis (report);
NRM and institutional options for sustainable management of silvi-pasture systems on community lands for enhanced eco-system services
Three Pasture development committees were formed together with a women subcommittee to ensure the role and responsibility of women for proper management of CPRs in three villages. In silvi-pasture system of Govindpura soil ...
M.Sc. thesis on improving water productivity in IGNP stage-I
An experiment entitled “Evaluation of water productivity for improved soil and water management at the scheme scale using CropSyst model” was carried out at village Menawali, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, during kharif and rabi ...