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Bihar: Food Security and the Way Forward
Farmers in Nawad District in Bihar. Source: (flickr) Vartika Singh, IFPRI The challenge of ensuring food security in Bihar is complex. The proportion of underweight children in the state is nearly 50...
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Grappling with Climate Change Mitigation in Pakistan
Source: K.von Grebmer/IFPRI (Flickr) Konark Sikka is an intern with IFPRI- South Asia office Climate change has become more pronounced over the past few decades, and agriculture has been one of the...
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Striving for drought proof agriculture in Bihar, India
Diesel pump used for irrigation in Bihar, India. Source: Divya Pandey, IFPRI (flickr) In an unfortunate irony, farmers in Bihar—a water-rich state in northern India—have been grappling with frequent...
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Keeping Agriculture Productive Amid a Changing Climate in Nepal
Participants at the Conference Eighty percent of the population in Nepal lives in rural areas and depends heavily on agriculture as a source of income and employment. With changing monsoon patterns,...
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Tandem technologies and drought-risk management in Bangladesh
Cross-posted from the IFPRI website written by Rebecca Sullivan Source:IRRI As climate change spurs increasingly unpredictable weather—such as droughts and floods—farmers find themselves on the...
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Food Security in Bihar: The State of Things Looking Ahead
Konark Sikka is an intern with IFPRI- South Asia office Women Farmer Winnowing Rice, Bihar. Source (Flickr) Divya Pandey, IFPRI Over the years investments in food and nutritional security have shown...
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Risk-Management Increases Resilience in the Face of Drought
Cross-posted from the FSP India website written by Jaspreet Aulakh Nalanda District, Bihar Source (Flickr): Divya Pandey, IFPRI Shocks of any form can be have a more pronounced effect in the developing...
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Multiple Factors Hamper CCT Scheme
Cross-posted from the FSP India website written by Rachel Kohn Women Farmers, Nalanda District, Bihar: Source (flickr) Divya Pandey, IFPRI The increasing frequency of altered rainfall patterns in India...
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Fighting Droughts in Bihar
Solar Panels in Nalanda District, Bihar. Source: (flickr): Divya Pandey, IFPRI Bihar recorded only 122 mm of rain in the month of June this year against the normal 169 mm—a deficit of 28 percent. IMD...
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National Workshop: Mitigating Agrarian Distress in Indian Agriculture
Cross-posted from the FSP India website written by Jaspreet Aulakh Hamish John Appleby / IWMI Partially spurred by the recent droughts in several states in India, a conference was held in Telangana on...
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