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    The Future of rice security under climate change

    Centre For Non-Traditional Security Studies, 2016
    Food systems are climate and weather dependent; heat stress and changes in rainfall patterns and relative humidity are likely to regulate crop yields. Elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) are likely to directly and indirectly bring new challenges to the stability and sustainability of global food production including rice.
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    Child Under-weight and Agricultural Productivity in India: Implications for Public Provisioning and Women’s Agency

    Review of Radical Political Economics, 2015
    The well-known pathways that link agriculture to child nutrition are food, quality of food, and care of feeding. Further, agricultural productivity growth contributes significantly to poverty reduction and reduction in child undernutrition.
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    India-Africa seed sector collaboration: emerging prospects and challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    India-Africa seed sector has promises for improving trade with various African nations.
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    Food price differences across Indian states: patterns and determinants

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2016
    The paper examines food price differences across Indian states during 2004-2014 using food consumer prices from household surveys and wholesale/retail prices for selected goods. At the individual product level there are large price differences across states, with prices doubling or trebling across India for a typical case, but with considerable variation across products.
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    Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016
    Transplanting is the dominant mode of rice establishment in India. Transplanted rice requires more labour and water and emits more greenhouse gases into the environment than DSR. In the past, DSR was mainly practiced in areas with low population density and where low or uncertain water availability prevented intensification of rice systems.
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    Benefits and costs of nitrogen fertilizer management for climate change mitigation: focus on India and Mexico

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016
    This report contributes to the project “Financing Low Emissions Agriculture,” led by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The project aims to analyze financial options and gather empirical evidence to build business cases for supporting transitions to low emissions agriculture in developing countries.
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    Adapting Agriculture Platforms for Nutrition: A Case Study of a Participatory, Video-Based Agricultural Extension Platform in India

    PLoS ONE, 2016
    Successful integration of nutrition interventions into large-scale development programmes from nutrition-relevant sectors, such as agriculture, can address critical underlying determinants of undernutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of on-going nutrition-specific activities. However, evidence on how this can be done is limited.
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    Review of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: India

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016
    Efforts to give a pro-nutrition focus to agriculture to address the problem of undernutrition in developing countries have predominantly focused on boosting production and/or consumption of nutritious foods by farm households.
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    To farm or not to farm? Indian farmers in transition

    Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 2016
    Few studies of agrarian transition examine what farmers themselves feel about farming. Are they cultivating out of choice or a lack of options? What distinguishes farmers who like farming from t hose who do not: their personal and household characteristics and endowments? The local ecology and regional economy? Or a mix of these and other factors?
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    Climate change and food security in India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2016
    Climate change has added to the enormity of India's food-security challenges. While the relationship between climate change and food security is complex, most studies focus on one dimension of food security, i.e., food availability.

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