A. Grant, A Avenell, Marion Campbell, Andrew M. McDonald et al.
Background Elderly people who have a fracture are at high risk of another. Vitamin D and calcium supplements are often recommended for fracture prevention. We aimed to assess whether vitamin D3 and calcium, either alone or in combination, were effective in prevention of secondary fractures. Methods ...
M.L. Jat, Debashis Chakraborty, J. K. Ladha, D.S. RANA et al.
H.S. Jat, Ashim Datta, Parbodh Chander Sharma, Virender Kumar et al.
Soil quality degradation associated with resources scarcity is the major concern for the sustainability of conventional rice-wheat system in South Asia. Replacement of conventional management practices with conservation agriculture (CA) is required to improve soil quality. A field experiment was con...
Virender Kumar, H.S. Jat, Parbodh Chander Sharma, Balwinder Singh et al.
In the most productive area of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in Northwest India where high yields of rice and wheat are commonplace, a medium-term cropping system trial was conducted in Haryana State. The goal of the study was to identify integrated management options for further improving productivity a...
H.S. Jat, Ashim Datta, Madhu Choudhary, A. K. Yadav et al.
) was retained in the 1-0.5 mm size class under CA-based scenarios. After 6 years, higher POC was associated with Sc4 (116%). CA-based rice/maize system (Sc3 and Sc4) showed higher productivity than Sc1. Therefore, CA could be a potential management practice in rice-wheat cropping system of Northwes...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Jagadish Timsina, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Rice–maize (R–M) systems are rapidly expanding in South Asia and Bangladesh due to higher yield and profit potential from rabi (winter) maize, its reduced water requirement compared to rice–rice systems, and increasing demand from poultry and fish feed industries. The current practice of growing pud...
H.S. Jat, Ashim Datta, Madhu Choudhary, Parbodh Chander Sharma et al.
Intensive tillage coupled with crop residue burning in rice-wheat (RW) system is a serious issue that causes soil degradation and environmental pollution. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the main indicators of soil health and system's sustainability. Zero-tillage has been widely recommended as a...
T.S. Amjath-Babu, Timothy J. Krupnik, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Andrew J. McDonald
In the context of developing countries, early evidence suggests that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food production systems is complex, heterogenous, and dynamic. As such, robust monitoring of the impact of the health crisis and containment measures across agricultural value chains will lik...
Siddhwartha Mandal, Andrew Hoskin, Amir Fam
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Timothy J. Krupnik, Urs Schulthess, Zia Ahmed, Andrew J. McDonald
Changing dietary preferences and population growth in South Asia have resulted in increasing demand for wheat and maize, along side high and sustained demand for rice. In the highly productive northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, farmers utilize groundwater irrigation to assure that at l...
Gopal, Ravi, Raj Kumar Jat, R.K. Malik, Virender Kumar et al.
Mahesh K. Gathala, Jagadish Timsina, Md. Saiful Islam, Timothy J. Krupnik et al.
Responding to increasing demand from poultry and fish feed industries, maize area is rapidly expanding in South Asia. Current tillage and crop establishment (TCE) practices are however associated with high levels of input use, including direct and indirect forms of energy. In Bangladesh, policy make...
H.S. Jat, Madhu Choudhary, Ashim Datta, A. K. Yadav et al.
Climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices are emerging as sustainable alternative to conventional rice-wheat system to pull up natural resources degradation across south Asia. After five years of continuous CSA based experiment, a two years study was conducted to evaluate changes in microbial biomas...
Timothy J. Krupnik, Zia Ahmed, Jagadish Timsina, Md Shahjahan et al.
Rising wheat demand in South Asia necessitates crop intensification to meet food security needs. Increased grain output can be achieved by bridging yield gaps on currently farmed land or by expanding cultivation to new land, though the latter entails environmental trade-offs and offers limited poten...
Timothy J. Krupnik, Zia Ahmed, Jagadish Timsina, Samına Yasmın et al.
Urs Schulthess, Jagadish Timsina, Juan M. Herrera, Andrew J. McDonald
Accurate estimation of the size and spatial distribution of the yield gap has many practical applications, including relevance to precision agriculture and technology targeting. The objectives of this study were to illustrate a methodology to create a yield gap map and to discuss its potential uses ...
Dyutiman Choudhary, K. Banskota, Narayan Prasad Khanal, Andrew J. McDonald et al.
With economic development agricultural systems in the Global South transform from subsistence farming to higher productivity with market integration and increase in rural income and food security. In Nepal, agriculture continues to provide livelihoods for two-thirds of the predominantly rural popula...
Andrea K. Gerlak, Margaret Wilder
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Austria P. Martinez and P. van Hofwegen, eds., Synthesis of the 4th World Water Forum (Mexico City: Comisión Nacional de Agua, 2006), 24. 2. UNICEF, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (NY: UNICEF, 2010). 3. For example, some First Nations ...
Sam Coggins, Andrew J. McDonald, João Vasco Silva, Anton Urfels et al.
Abstract Increasing nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in agricultural production mitigates climate change, limits water pollution and reduces fertilizer subsidy costs. Nevertheless, strategies for increasing NUE without jeopardizing food security are uncertain in globally important cropping systems. Her...
H.S. Jat, Virender Kumar, Suresh K. Kakraliya, Ahmed M. Abdallah et al.
Abstract Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are getting popular across South-Asia as an alternative to the conventional system for particular weed suppression, resources conservation and environmental quality. An 8-year study (2012–2013 to 2019–2020) was conducted to understa...