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Natural calamities, primarily floods, of varying intensity adversely affect the standing crop leading to poor harvests. Such untoward climatic shocks invariably hit almost all blocks of Puri District in Odisha.  The variety-based climate-smart intervention proved to be a potential response in the flood-prone...

Remote sensing based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies (RIICE) has been applied over main rice production areas; the results demonstrate...

Crop calendars report the timing of key agricultural activities and crop development. At their most detailed, crop calendars can support the planning of...

In this study, we used radial kernel support vector machine (SVM) to map the crop types of smallholder farms in two sites in eastern India. We focused...

Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization and less cold stress opening new opportunities for...

Future rice production and food security across Africa are under pressure as a result of climate change-induced increases in heat, drought, salinity, and...

Parasitic weeds invade around 1.34 million hectares of rainfed rice areas in Africa causing damages estimated at USD 200 million. ...

More than 65% of the 1.7 billion people in South Asia live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for their livelihood. Nearly, 70% of South Asians, which...

Rice, cultivated in the flood plains along the Niger River and its tributaries in Nigeria’s northern states, is regularly inundated by floods. In 2015,...

GRiSP brings together more than 900 partners globally to address the shared goal of reducing poverty and hunger, improving human health and nutrition,...