• Disease Warriors 

  Butt, Umbreen (2017-04)

  "Disease Warriors" follows the frontline health workers battling the poliovirus in the streets of Peshawar. The global campaign to eradicate polio was launched in 1988. That year, 350,000 children were paralyzed by the ...
• Developing care : recent research on the care economy and economic development 

  Folbre, Nancy (2018-07)

  Policy makers are beginning to appreciate the constraints that unpaid care work imposes on both economic development and the empowerment of women in low-income countries. Empirical research on these topics is in its infancy ...
• Impacts of natural disasters on smallholder farmers : gaps and recommendations 

  Chapagain, Tejendra; Raizada, Manish (BioMed Central, 2017)

  Here, we review the impacts of recent natural disasters in developing countries on rural agriculture and livelihoods with the objective of understanding gaps and providing recommendations. Lessons from these disasters ...
• Top 10 inexpensive interventions to help farmers in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake : brief report for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) 

  Raizada, Manish; Chapagain, Tejendra; Khadka, Kamal (2015-05)

  As witnessed in Haiti, a natural calamity can cause a secondary, long-term disaster in rural areas, which is often overlooked. In the case of Nepal, the pre-monsoon rains have started: due to widespread structural collapses, ...
• Testing and scaling up of sustainable agriculture kits 

  Sthapit, Sajal; Pudasaini, Roshan (2018)

  The conventional manner of innovation development and deployment have not been able to address the old and new needs of terrace farmers. The SAK Nepal project took a new approach to address their needs. Instead of trying ...
• Model for NGO and private sector partnership for scaling up sustainable agriculture kits (SAKs) 

  Pudasaini, Roshan; Sthapit, Sajal (2018)

  Even though farming is the primary or secondary occupation for most households in rural Nepal, marketing of agricultural tools and inputs have not taken off. The market of input and equipment supply has concentrated only ...
• Optimizing biological nitrogen fixation inexpensively as part of a sustainable agriculture kit (SAK) strategy to assist subsistence farmers 

  Thilakarathna, Malinda; Chapagain, Tejendra; Pudasaini, Roshan; Ghimire, Bhawana; Rana, Ram; Raizada, Manish (2018)
• Low cost sustainable agriculture kits (SAKs) as an agronomic strategy to improve farmer livelihoods in Nepal 

  Chapagain, Tejendra; Pudasaini, Roshan; Khadka, Kamal; Patel, Kirit; Rana, Ram; Raizada, Manish (2018)

  The world’s 1.1 billion subsistence farmers do not have access to peer-reviewed knowledge of best agronomic practices, good seeds, or inexpensive farm tools. What is lacking is a means to package, deliver and share these ...
• Whole cell biosensor (GlnLux) to measure symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in legumes 

  Thilakarathna, Malinda; Raizada, Manish (2018)

  Measuring symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) of large numbers of legume plants is a challenge in terms of time, labor, and cost. Here we present a whole cell biosensor to measure SNF efficiently in legumes. A whole cell ...
• Testing of models to scale up low cost agriculture practices and tools in hills of Nepal 

  Pudasaini, Roshan; Ghimire, Bhawana; Rana, Ram; Raizada, Manish; Chapagain, Tejendra (2018)

  Mid-hills in Nepal account for 70% cultivated agricultural land (3.1 million hectare) in the country. Terrace farming in hills and mountains is characterized by number of challenges like limited land surface area for ...
• New manual step-seeder for subsistence maize farmers : special applications to the Eastern mid-hills of Nepal 

  Bruch, Austin; Raizada, Manish (2018)

  In the Eastern Mid-hills of Nepal the agroecosystem is defined by narrow plots, steep hills, significant distance and altitude from the home, small total farm size, plot size variation, remoteness and poverty. Mechanized ...
• Phenotyping of a Nepali spring wheat (triticumaestivum, l.) diversity panel for physio-morphological traits associated with drought tolerance 

  Khadka, Kamal; Raizada, Manish; Navabi, Alireza (2018)

  The objective of this study was to evaluate a panel of spring wheat genotypes for morpho-physiological traits associated with drought tolerance.
• Mitigating dry season food insecurity in the sub-tropics by prospecting drought-tolerant, nitrogen-fixing weeds 

  Small, Finlay; Raizada, Manish (2018)

  More than 600 million smallholders suffer seasonal poverty and food insecurity in the dry season (Vaitla et al., 2009). Agricultural terraces are typically fallow in the dry season, low soil moisture inhibits the growth ...
• Gender differences in willingness to pay for capital-intensive agricultural technologies : the case of fish solar tent dryers in Malawi 

  Chiwaula, Levison; Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere; Binauli, Lucy; Banda, James; Nagoli, Joseph (Springer Open, 2018-01)

  Gender differences in fish processors’ willingness to pay for a group-owned fish solar tent dryer (FSTD) are being assessed by using the double hurdle model. Willingness to pay (WTP) responses from 382 randomly selected ...
• Economic empowerment and marketing of indigenous vegetables : Nigeria and Benin Republic report 

  Obafemi Awolowo University; Osun State University; University of Parakou (2018-03)

  This project’s goal was to increase food and nutritional food security and economic empowerment of 225,000 resource poor farming households with emphasis on women in the West African Sub-region through integrations of ...
• Synergizing fertilizer micro-dosing and indigenous vegetable production to enhance food and economic security of West African farmers : final report 

  Ayanwale, Adeolu; Baco, Mohamed; Oluwagbenga Alao, Titus; Adesiyan, Olufunmilola; Ikuteyijo, Lanre Oluwasegun; Ajeigbe, Noah; Ouidoh, Fructuese; Adechian, Soule; Akponikpe, Pierre Irenikatche; Oyedele, Durodoluwa; Adebooye, Odunayo Clement (2017-03)

  This project is a synergy of the Nigeria-Canada Indigenous Vegetables Project (NiCanVeg Project 106511) and the Integrated Nutrient and Water Management in the Sahel (INuWaM Project 106516). The promising results of the ...
• Final report of agronomic trial and water management of fertilizer micro-dosing technology on traditional leafy vegetables 

  Akponikpe, Pierre Irenikatche; Oyedele, Durodoluwa; Adebooye, Odunayo Clement; Peak, Derek John (2018-03)

  The agronomy trials were carried out with the main objective of fine tuning the fertilizer microdosing technology of InuWaM on indigenous vegetables using the NiCanVeg Technology for their cultivation. Fertilizer microdosing ...
• Synergizing fertilizer micro-dosing and indigenous vegetable production to enhance food and economic security of West African farmers (CIFSRF Phase 2) : final value addition report 

  Food Science Team (2018-03)

  The value addition of vegetables become necessary to reduce wastages and improve the utilisation of green leafy vegetables. Vegetables are highly diversified, cheap and readily available throughout the season in Nigeria. ...
• Advanced tools for food security research: web-based GIS mapping and synchrotron-based analysis for scaling up the MicroVeg agronomic innovations 

  Peak, Derek John; Minielly, Colin; Zeng, W.; Procyshen, Taylor; Akponikpe, Pierre Irenikatche; Oyedele, Durodoluwa; Adebooye, Odunayo Clement (2018-03)

  As our online tools became more elaborate, we developed a parent website at www.microveg.ca to house the information. As previously reported, we have successfully produced a Web-based GIS system that allows one to visualize ...
• Efficiency of scaling up approaches : MicroVeg project 

  Unknown author (2018-03)

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