Stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) are bred to be high yielding and tolerant to climate shocks such as drought. In Nepal, several drought-tolerant STRVs...
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Working paper 4 MANAGE Centre for Agricultural Extension Innovations, Reforms and Agripreneurship The COVID-19 outbreak has generated extreme vulnerability in...
Both women and men depend on forests, agroforestry and trees for their livelihoods, and play a critical role in managing them. However, inequalities persist in...
Land use is a central issue for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Plantations of all...
The Compendium is a product of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition implemented by FAO, IFAD and WFP and...
An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn from Asia?
Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the...
Social capital is a key factor that concerns the ability of people to cooperate for common goals. What we have learned over the past decades, from...
Growing demand for livestock products in Bangladesh offers attractive opportunities for strengthening household level food security, nutrition and rural...
Climate change presents multiple challenges and it cannot be addressed effectively in silos. Attention must be paid not only to specific agriculture sectors...
This report presents and reflects on the opportunities that new technological developments related to automation and precision agriculture (e.g. robotics) can...
