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Moving to national scale
Rice cultivation in the NLPR regions has moved to higher latitudes.
India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n=772).
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations
Agriculture is fundamental to all three pillars of sustainability, environment, society, and economy. However, the definition of sustainable agriculture and the capacities to measure it remain elusive.
We present results from large ensembles of projected twenty-first century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature for the nation of South Africa.
Projecting future demand for livestock-derived foods depends on interactions between income, prices, and the income elasticity of that demand.
Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an
Background: Climate change presents an increasing challenge for food-nutrition security. Nutrition metrics calculated from quantitative food system projections can help focus policy actions.
Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on crops to end hunger
In 2017–2018, a group of international development funding agencies launched the Crops to End Hunger initiative to modernize public plant breeding in lower-income countries.
Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries
This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.
Modeling the potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on groundnut production in India
Groundnut is one of the significant sources of oil, food, and fodder in India. It is grown in marginal arid and semi-arid agro-ecosystems with wide yield fluctuations due to spatial variability of rainfall and soil.
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is the most widely grown food crop in the world threatened by future climate change.
The papers and ideas on foresight and trade-off analysis presented in this issue are very timely.
Strategic foresight for agriculture: Past ghosts, present challenges, and future opportunities
Strategic foresight is systematic means to explore plausible futures.
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Investment in small-scale irrigation may provide a solution to address the challenge by extending crop production into the dry season.
Climate change and agricultural development
Climate change will be a major driver of change in the agricultural sector in the coming decades, along with changes in population, income, urbanization, dietary preferences, and technology.1 Agriculture is unique among economic sectors in its dep
Climate change is one of the main challenges for Tajikistan’s agricultural development and food security both in the medium and longer term.