Ravi P. Singh, P. K. Singh, Jessica Rutkoski, David Hodson et al.
Wheat is grown worldwide in diverse geographical regions, environments, and production systems. Although many diseases and pests are known to reduce grain yield potential and quality, the three rusts and powdery mildew fungi have historically caused major crop losses and continue to remain economica...
Philip G. Pardey, Jason M. Beddow, Darren J. Kriticos, Terrance M. Hurley et al.
Is increased support needed for wheat disease research to avert crop losses from current and future strains?
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, David Hodson, Timothy J. Krupnik, Kai Sonder
Abstract Applying the difference-in-difference (DID) estimation procedure, this study quantifies the wheat blast ( Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum) induced losses in wheat yield, quantity of wheat sold, consumed, or stored, as well as wheat grain value in Bangladesh in 2016 following a disease...
Jacob W. Smith, Asif Al Faisal, David Hodson, Suraj Baidya et al.
Abstract Wheat contributes one‐fifth of the global food supply with an estimated 29% of global production in low and lower‐middle income countries. As production expands across southern Asia, yields are often negatively impacted by outbreaks of fungal rust diseases. A wheat rust early warning and ad...
Patrick Chiza Chikoti, Batiseba Tembo, Xinyao He, David Paul Hodson et al.
Wheat blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum (MoT), is an emerging fungal disease that poses a serious threat to global wheat production. In Zambia, where wheat is increasingly becoming a vital component for food and nutritional security, the emergence and spread of wheat blast is a ...
Matthew Heaton, Maricelis Acevedo, David Hodson
The Disease Early Warning Advisory System (DEWAS) network is a unique model to prevent wheat rust outbreaks, safeguarding harvests worldwide. This letter shares the approach and importance of DEWAS, drawing on the example of the first detection of Ug99 stem rust in Nepal (2023), buying vital time fo...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, David J. Hodson, Mottaleb, Khondoker, Hodson, David
Crop Production/Industries, Productivity Analysis
Šumit Ganguly
Abstract Contrary to the arguments of proliferation pessimists, this article contends that the overt nuclearization of South Asia has contributed to stability in the region. To that end this article carefully examines two recent crises in Indo-Pakistani relations and concludes that in the absence of...
Fred Halliday, Chadwick F. Alger, H. W. Singer, Sidney Dell et al.
America's new cold war. Dead Ends: American foreign policy in the New Cold War Stanley Hoffmann Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger. 1983. 299pp. £21.00. Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the politics of containment Jerry W Sanders London: Pluto Press. 1983. 371pp. £5.95pb....