Vossenberg, Saskia; Rappoldt, Anne; D'Anjou, Jesse(International Development Research Centre, 2018)
A range of current policies and programs target greater inclusion of the poor and marginalized–including women–in financial systems and services. Debate and effort have largely focused on widening access to products and ...
Grez, Francisco(Rimsip - Latin American Center for Rural Development, 2018-02)
In this fourth edition, the Latin American Report on Poverty and Inequality discusses territorial inequality from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering indicators at the subnational level ...
Grez, Francisco(Centro Lationamericano para el desarrollo rural, 2018-02)
Esta cuarta edición del Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad propone una mirada innovadora respecto de las ediciones anteriores, pues pone en discusión la desigualdad territorial desde la mirada de los ...
Graham, Mark(MIT Press, a copublication with International Development Research Centre, 2019-01)
This book brings together new scholarship that addresses what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy means for people and places at economic margins. As you read through the book, you might ...
This report, which encompasses the findings of a Regional Diagnostic Study (RDS) for West Africa, was undertaken in 2014-15 to advance understanding of climate change in semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia. The RDS ...
This report summarises key findings from the regional diagnostic study (RDS) of the ASSAR East Africa team, and identifies major gaps in the existing literature on areas of vulnerability and adaptation in East Africa. The ...
India has regions with some of the highest levels of anemia prevalence among women and children in the world - with no measurable improvement over the past 20 years despite a quadrupling of economic output. A staggering ...
Low yield and total land productivity are major challenges associated with smallholder terrace agriculture in developing countries. Crop intensification and diversification by introducing legumes as intercrop could help ...
This paper commences with a background discussion of the terms associated with transformation, draws on this to build a conceptual framework for comparing activities, highlights a range of activities from the regions that ...
Challenges associated with legume production in Nepal include: lack of high yielding varieties and crop specific management (e.g., disease/pest management) practices, loss of soil fertility including micronutrients, poor ...
Clark, Jaclyn C.; Raizada, Manish N.(Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017-12)
Millions of subsistence farmers cultivate crops on terraces. These farmers face unique challenges including severe shortages of arable land and remoteness leading to poor access to inputs including nitrogen fertilizer. ...
Subsistence farming requires considerable human labor; however, smallhold families typically suffer from both undernutrition (not enough calories or protein) and malnutrition (not enough nutrients). In general, the diet ...
This paper evaluates the nature and functioning of seed networks for rice, maize and finger millet, and explores the effect of such networks on agrobiodiversity conservation and food security. Using snowball sampling, ...
A report of Nepal Chepang Association (NCA) suggests that 71% of the children are malnourished. Non-toxic wild yam of Nepal is recognized as ‘Health/ Functional food’ with high nutritional values. Rich in starch, yam is ...
Finger millet is an ancient African cereal crop,domesticated 7000 years ago in Ethiopia,reaching India at 3000 BC. Finger millet is reported to be resistant to various fungal pathogens including Fusariumsp. We hypothesized ...
In cereal crops, root hairs are reported to function within the root hair zone to carry out important roles in nutrient and water absorption. Nevertheless, these single cells remain understudied due to the practical ...