Market intelligence for guiding crop improvement: A systematic review of stakeholder preference studies in the rice sector in the Global South and beyond

MC Custodio, M Demont… - … Reviews in Food Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Improvement of crop varieties can be a powerful strategy for addressing food, nutrition, and
climate challenges in the Global South if it is guided by market intelligence. We conducted a …

Analyzing past and future trends in Pakistan's groundwater irrigation development: Implications for environmental sustainability and food security

A Razzaq, H Liu, M Xiao, K Mehmood… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Since the last four decades, groundwater irrigation has played a critical role in improving
crop production and rural livelihoods. However, the flawed policies have allowed farmers to …

Towards sustainable water use: Factors influencing farmers' participation in the informal groundwater markets in Pakistan

A Razzaq, M Xiao, Y Zhou, M Anwar, H Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Informal groundwater markets have spontaneously developed in Pakistan due to the
heterogeneity of farmers' resource endowments, irrigation water shortages, and productivity …

Impact of participation in groundwater market on farmland, income, and water access: Evidence from Pakistan

A Razzaq, M Xiao, Y Zhou, H Liu, A Abbas, W Liang… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Groundwater irrigation has a critical role in the sustainability of arable farming in many
developing countries including Pakistan. Groundwater irrigation is generally practiced to …

Mapping paddy rice distribution and cropping intensity in China from 2014 to 2019 with landsat images, effective flood signals, and google earth engine

J Wei, Y Cui, W Luo, Y Luo - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Paddy rice cropping systems play a vital role in food security, water use, gas emission
estimates, and grain yield prediction. Due to alterations in the labor structure and the high …

UAV-based multispectral image analytics for generating crop coefficient maps for rice

SB Khose, DR Mailapalli, S Biswal… - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Crop coefficients are important to determine crop evapotranspiration (ETc), seasonal crop
water requirement, and irrigation water depth. Similarities between the curve of crop …

Modeling adaptation strategies against climate change impacts in integrated rice-wheat agricultural production system of Pakistan

MK Anser, T Hina, S Hameed, MH Nasir… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
There are numerous anticipated effects of climate change (CC) on agriculture in the
developing and the developed world. Pakistan is among the top ten most prone nations to …

A proposed typology of farming systems for assessing sustainable livelihood development pathways in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

A Azarov, RC Sidle, D Darr, V Verner, Z Polesny - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
In Kyrgyzstan, most farming systems focus on animal husbandry, which depends on
mixtures of crops and pastures around settlements and higher-elevation summer pastures …

Looking up and going down: Does sustainable adaptation to climate change ensure dietary diversity and food security among rural communities or vice versa?

S Haq, P Shahbaz, A Abbas, B Alhafi Alotaibi… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sustainable food systems are essential to ensure food security and mitigate climate change.
Adaptation to climate change is part and parcel of sustainable food systems. Prior literature …

Functional properties of syrup from malted and unmalted rice of different varieties: A comparative study

CE Ofoedu, CM Osuji, GC Omeire… - Journal of Food …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The continued increase in Nigeria's rice production makes product diversification very fitting,
even to underutilized indigenous/local varieties. Further, rice converted to malt can bring …