The Central Luzon Loop Survey: Rice farming in the Philippines from 1966 to 2021
Popped rice with distinct nutraceutical properties
Gender-friendly seed production trainings help Bangladeshi women own their future
Women-led community seed production and marketing enterprise sows change in Northern Bangladesh
How improved cultivation and groundnut variety helped a farmer build his future from the ground up
Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka
Popping is a simple, cost-effective way to prepare whole-grain snacks. Popped rice is a classic, ready-to-eat wholegrain snack in India and a good dietary alternative for vegetarians, anaemics, coeliacs, and gluten-sensitive and intolerant individuals. We examined the changes in the physical, nutraceuticals,...
Gender disparity manifests in various ways, one of those being giving women limited access to knowledge and skills development. This is one of the reasons for their marginal social status. One way of addressing the issue is by training women in relevant subjects that positively impact their livelihood and pave the path for enhancing their socio-economic status. ...
The Central Luzon Loop Survey in the Philippines (the Loop Survey) is one of the longest-running and still ongoing household-level farm surveys in tropical Asia. The survey has been conducted every four to five years until 2021 covering a period of more than half a century. This discussion includes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rice farming. The Loop Survey can provide important information...
Effective plant health management requires holistic approaches that focus on preventing entry, establishment, and spread of invasive pests and pathogens, to the extent possible, and mitigation of the impacts of the outbreaks through eco-friendly, socially inclusive, and sustainable management approaches. The reactive approach, followed in general by most institutions and countries, focusing on containment...
Remote sensing based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies (RIICE) has been applied over main rice production areas; the results demonstrate the system can be used in different ecosystems and can be extended at the national level. The information provided by RIICE has been also used for the implementation of a rice insurance scheme at Bao Viet Company for two provinces of the...
