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1 Singh, R. B. 2000. Environmental consequences of agricultural development: a case study from the green revolution state of Haryana, India. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 82:97-103.
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2 Sarangi, S. K.; Burman, D.; Mandal, S.; Maji, B.; Tuong, T. P.; Humphreys, E.; Bandyopadhyay, B. K.; Sharma, D. K. 2015. Reducing irrigation water requirement of dry season rice (boro) in coastal areas using timely seeding and short duration varieties. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.68-79.
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3 Rahman, M. A.; Sarker, M. R. A.; Sharma, N.; Mondal, M. K.; Islam, M. R.; Gregorio, G. B.; Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P. 2015. Challenges and opportunities for aman rice cultivation in ghers used for brackish water shrimp production. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.333-341.
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4 Saha, N. K.; Mondal, M. K.; Humphreys, E.; Bhattacharya, J.; Rashid, M. H.; Paul, P. C.; Ritu, S. P. 2015. Triple rice in a year: is it a feasible option for the low salinity areas of the coastal zone of Bangladesh? In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.421-435.
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5 Mondal, M. K.; Paul, P. L. C.; Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Ritu, S. P.; Rashid, M. A. 2015. Opportunities for cropping system intensification in the coastal zone of Bangladesh. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.449-476.
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6 Chandna, P. K.; Nelson, A.; Khan, M. Z. H.; Hossain, M. M.; Rana, M. S.; Mondal, M.; Mohanty, S.; Humphrey, L.; Rashid, F.; Tuong, T. P. 2015. Targeting improved cropping systems in the coastal zone of Bangladesh: a decision tree approach for mapping recommendation domains. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.522-541.
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7 Htwe, C. M.; Ngwe, K.; Win, K. K.; Mar, S. S. 2016. Estimating soil nutrient supplying capacity for rice (Oryza sativa L.) production. In Kywe, M.; Ngwe, K.; Oo, A. N. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Ninth Agricultural Research Conference, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 12-13 January 2016. Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar: Yezin Agricultural University. pp.158-176.
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Soil nutrient supply capacity, nutrient use efficiency and fertilizer requirement for the consecutive rice cropping in irrigated system were investigated using a randomized complete block design with different fertilization treatments, including control (no fertilizer application), PK, NK, NP and NPK fertilization with four replications at Myanmar Rice Research Center (MRRC). Short duration rice varieties, Pale Thwe-1 (hybrid) and Yadanar Toc (HYV) were used to determine the soil indigenous nutrient supply capacity, to evaluate the omission plots for estimating fertilizer use efficiencies and to estimate the indigenous nutrients (N, P and K) as an requirement for working out a site specific fertilizer recommendation. The results of five treatments in four seasons indicated that the indigenous nutrient supply capacity of N, P and K (INS, IPS and IKS) ranged from (30.1 to 87.7) kg N ha-1, (8.9 to 53.7) kg P ha-1 and (43.7 to 165.3) kg K ha-1 . The nutrient use efficiencies (NUE, PUE and KUE) ranged between (2.1 to 27.8 kg kg-1 N applied), (12.8 to 63.5 kg kg-1 P applied) and (4.5 to 28.3 kg kg-1 K applied) in two rice varieties. It was also observed that rice crop could use nutrient more efficiently in dry season than in wet season. The four season's rice-rice monoculture also showed that balanced application of N, P and K promoted not only grain yield but also nutrient uptake. The yield increases of Pale Thwe-1 and Yadanar Toe over control treatment were 86, 52 % in NPK, 55, 44 % in NK and 65, and 37 % in NP a treatments, respectively. Nitrogen was the first nutrient limiting factor for yield, followed by P and then K. The greater N fertilizer requirement of Pale Thwe-1 variety was based on the greater yield target. The average amount of four season's fertilizer requirements were 160 kg N ha-1, 45 kg P ha-1 and 75 (kg K ha-1 for hybrid. Fertilizers were applied at a rate of 100 kg N ha-1, 30 kg P ha-1 and 70 kg K ha-1 for HYV. The importance of balanced fertilization in maintaining soil fertility for sustainable yield production is highly evident. The present study was conducted for only four consecutive rice cropping seasons at MRRC and the work needs further investigation.
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Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials from government and non-government organizations in Nepal, we explore how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate change. Combining feminist political ecology and critical social-ecological systems thinking, we analyze how gender and adaptation interact as households abandon certain crops, adopt high-yielding varieties and shift to cash crops. We argue that the prevailing development paradigm reinforces inequitable gender structures in agrobiodiversity management, undermining adaptation to the changing climate.
9 Leh, Mansoor; Schulte-Kellinghaus, Nikola; Rebelo, Lisa-Maria; de Silva, Sanjiv; Moet, Palal. 2019. Hydrologic characterization of different rice environments in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. Project report submitted to CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) under the project Testing Adaptation to Flood Pulsed Systems in Myanmar. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 28p.
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The coastal region of Bangladesh is prone to natural disasters and these events are expected to worsen as a result of climate change. Combined with anthropogenic factors, these events challenge livelihood opportunities, especially crop production. Waterlogging, tidal activity and the lack of proper drainage facilities are major constraints to agricultural production in these areas.
The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) tested, at pilot scale, the combination of innovative agricultural technologies with improved water management to overcome these challenges.
This report assesses this intervention by observing the effects, measuring the short-term impacts and understanding the perceptions. The results highlight the need to integrate the interventions into the local context, and acknowledge that institutions and markets need to mature to harness the benefits from innovations. It also underlines the potential of multi-scale interventions combining plot-level and farmer-led innovations, community management and rehabilitation of large schemes.
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Adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices has been widely recognized as a promising and successful alternative to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change. However, their adoption among smallholder farmers remains low in developing countries, including Ethiopia. This study examines factors that influence adoption and the level of adoption of multiple CSA practices, including improved agronomy, soil and water conservation, drought tolerant high yielding crop variety, small-scale irrigation, integrated disease, pest, and weed management, and integrated soil fertility management, using survey data from 404 farm households in BaleEco Region (BER), Ethiopia. The study applied a multivariate probit model for analyzing the simultaneous adoptions of multiple CSA practices, and ordered probit model for examining the factors influencing the level of adoption. The CSA practices are found to be complementary. Moreover, farmers' adoption of multiple CSA practices, as well as their intensity of adoption, is significantly influenced by the age of the household head, education, land size, household total asset value, frequency of extension contacts, farmer awareness of climate change, farmer experience with climatic shocks, parcel fertility, slope, and severity of soil erosion. The study's findings suggest that agricultural policy makers and implementers of CSA should recognize the complementarity among CSA practices in order to intensify their adoption among BER farmers and disseminate CSA practices in other parts of the country. Moreover, policymakers should consider household socio-economic, institutional, and parcel-specific factors that positively influence CSA adoption.
12 Joshi, P. K.; Varshney, D. 2022. Agricultural technologies in India: a review. Mumbai, India: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Department of Economic Analysis and Research. 66p. (NABARD Research and Policy Series 5/2022)
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