Agricultural commercialization as a mechanism to alleviate rural poverty raises concerns about small land-holders, non-adopters, and inequity in the distribution of benefits within transforming economies. Farm gross margins were calculated to assess the economic status and impact of cash cropping...
Brown, S.
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Kennedy, G.
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[A case study of cash cropping in Nepal: poverty alleviation or inequity?]
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A case study of cash cropping in Nepal: poverty alleviation or inequity?
Gender integration across national policy processes is critical to ensure effective implementation of climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture. This is especially so for countries like Nepal, where climate vulnerability and women participation in agriculture is high, accompanied by ...
Paudyal, Bimala Rai
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Chanana, Nitya
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Sherpa, Lakpa
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Kadariya, Ishwari
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal]
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Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal
A project implemented from 2003 to 2005 trained women in Chitwan District, Nepal, in hygienic dairy production using a process of social mobilization. The aim of this research was to assess if the prevalence of mastitis in water buffalo in the households of women who were trained was lower one ye...
Ng, L.
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Jost, Christine
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Robyn, M.
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Dhakal, I.P.
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Bett, Bernard K.
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Dhakal, P.
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Khadka, R.
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[Impact of livestock hygiene education programs on mastitis in smallholder water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Chitwan, Nepal]
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Impact of livestock hygiene education programs on mastitis in smallholder water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Chitwan, Nepal
Spatial patterns in socioeconomic data reveal issues and trends that would otherwise be missed by data aggregation to political or other units. Geographic Information System (GIS) tools provide display and analysis capabilities that are underutilized by many social scientists. The present article...
In the past, environmental managers could behave as if they were managing a “natural” system to which they were external; criteria for successful management could be derived from historical data or from current pristine systems elsewhere in the world. With a few localized exceptions, this approac...
Waltner-Toews, D.
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Kay, J.J.
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Neudoerffer, C.
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Gitau, T.
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[Perspective changes everything: Managing ecosystems from the inside out]
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Perspective changes everything: Managing ecosystems from the inside out
This review paper evaluates the potential of remote sensing for assessing landscape and species diversity in mountainous terrain. Understanding the complex mechanism of biodiversity necessitate its spatial and temporal dynamics and synergetic adoption of measurement approaches with long-term plot...
Amarnath, Giriraj
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Bajracharya, B.
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Shrestha, B.
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[Geoinformatics for landscape ecology and biodiversity research.]
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Geoinformatics for landscape ecology and biodiversity research.
Experiences with a participatory seed improvement initiative as a strategy for combating food deficits in a remote community in eastern Nepal are outlined. On the basis of participatory methods of problem assessment, food deficits were attributed to several factors, such as limited arable land, p...
Gurung, Barun
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Gurung, Pabitra
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[Addressing food scarcity in marginalized mountain environments: A participatory seed management initiative with women and men in Eastern Nepal]
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Addressing food scarcity in marginalized mountain environments: A participatory seed management initiative with women and men in Eastern Nepal