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    Technological change and new actors: debate on returns and regulations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effective and rationale regulatory framework.
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    Productivity and efficiency impacts of zero tillage wheat in Northwest Indo-Gangetic Plains

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being developed for the cereal production systems of South Asia to address the multifaceted problems of decelerating agricultural productivity, resource scarcity, climate change, and negative environmental externalities generated by the conventional production system.
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    Synthetic biology in India: issues in risk, power and governance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Synthetic biology is an emerging technology that can facilitate ‘design’ and ‘creation’ of micro-organisms which may not be found in nature. Synthetic biology is considered as an amalgamation of principles of engineering and biology. Globally synthetic biology has advanced rapidly in the last decade; however, in India it is in nascent stages.
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    Risk efficient resource allocation in agricultural systems of Pakistan: a farm level analysis

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    Agriculture in Pakistan is entering a new era of commercialization. In commercial agriculture, farm managers need to base their resource allocation decisions on a combination of information on production technology and its financial implications. It becomes all the more important to know the strengths and potential weaknesses of farm business for better farm planning.
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    India-Africa cooperation in agriculture science, technology and innovation: new avenues and opportunities

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    India is now a key trading partner of Sub-Saharan Africa, importing almost US$ 21 billion worth of goods and commodities and exporting goods of over US$ 10 billion to Africa in 2010. India’s development cooperation with Africa expanded significantly in 2005, when India became the first Asian country to become a full member of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).
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    Agricultural Impact Evaluation is Failing to Measure Up

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    New technology that enables sustainable and profitable production of food is critical for both food and nutrition security and economic development. Yet, recent research suggests assessments of the productivity gains farmers realise from new technology are routinely flawed methodologically and hence unreliable as a basis for decision making.
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    Water harvesting in mountain areas of Pakistan: issues and options

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    Pakistan is situated in the arid and semiarid region of the world between 24°N and 37°N latitude and between 61°E and 77°E longitude. Average annual precipitation ranges from 2000mm in the north to 100mm in the south (PCRWR, 1994). Pakistan has two mountain ranges in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH), namely the western mountains and northern mountains.
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    A Survey and Analysis of the Data Requirements for Stakeholders in African Agriculture

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2014
    As part of DFID’s contribution to the G8 initiative on Open Data for Agriculture, a broad survey of key stakeholders in sustainable African agriculture was conducted to assess current and emerging trends related to data collection, processing, and dissemination. Stakeholders 
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    Impact of fertilizer use on weed management in conservation agriculture - a review

    2014
    Intensive farming has been adopted to produce large amounts of food grains and cash crops but environment is being deteriorated at alarming rate also. Increased use of fertilizers, pesticides, chemical growth regulators, machinery and poor management practices are accelerating environmental pollution, soil degradation, global warming, climatic change and food deterioration.
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    Urgent: a road map for agro-industrial development in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Philippines is at the cusp of a high and hopefully prolonged growth phase. However, the ability of this growth to deliver sustained creation of jobs and reduction of poverty has been questioned.

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