[HTML][HTML] Millets: The future crops for the tropics-Status, challenges and future prospects

SA Kheya, SK Talukder, P Datta, S Yeasmin… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Millets are small-grained nutritious minor cereal crops that are resistant to different abiotic
stresses resulting from climate change. Despite their many benefits, millets have received …

The role of millets in attaining United Nation's sustainable developmental goals

S Antony Ceasar, T Maharajan - Plants, People, Planet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Strengthening food and nutrient security is crucial to feeding the
ever‐growing world population. Millets provide energy and nutrients for millions of poor …

Gender, wheat trait preferences, and innovation uptake: Lessons from Ethiopia and India

L Badstue, VV Krishna, M Jaleta… - Outlook on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
During the post-Green Revolution era, numerous improved wheat varieties were released
and disseminated to enhance tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses and increase …

The contributions of scale-appropriate farm mechanization to hunger and poverty reduction: evidence from smallholder systems in Nepal

GP Paudel, H Gartaula, SE Justice… - Journal of Economics …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study examines the adoption drivers of scale-appropriate mechanization in
Nepal's maize-based farming systems. The authors also assess the contribution of scale …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differentiated small-scale farm mechanization in Nepal hills: An application of exogenous switching treatment regression

GP Paudel, H Gartaula, P Craufurd - Technology in Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Farm mechanization among smallholder farming systems in developing countries is
emerging as a viable option to off-set the effects of labor out-migration and shortages that …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of climate change on agricultural production: A case of Rasuwa District, Nepal

B Dawadi, A Shrestha, RH Acharya, YP Dhital… - Regional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to threaten the developing countries the most. Nepal is
considered one of the five countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world. The …

[HTML][HTML] Leverage points for improving gender equality and human well-being in a smallholder farming context

AO Manlosa, J Schultner, I Dorresteijn, J Fischer - Sustainability Science, 2019 - Springer
How transformative processes could be facilitated to improve gender equality and
consequently, human well-being, is a key question for moving towards a just and …

[HTML][HTML] Responsible agricultural mechanization innovation for the sustainable development of Nepal's hillside farming system

R Devkota, LP Pant, HN Gartaula, K Patel, D Gauchan… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Agricultural mechanization in developing countries has taken at least two contested
innovation pathways—the “incumbent trajectory” that promotes industrial agriculture, and an …

[PDF][PDF] Prospect and potentiality of finger millet in Nepal: Nutritional security and trade perspective

S Gairhe, D Gauchan, KP Timsina - Journal of Agriculture and …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Millet is an important food crop for ensuring food and nutrition security of smallholder
farmers and marginalized communities in the hill and mountain of Nepal. The main …

[HTML][HTML] Farmer-preferred traits and variety choices for finger millet in Uganda

S Hamba, F Kasule, I Mayanja, M Biruma… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Finger millet is a climate-resilient crop providing food and nutrition security and income In
Uganda. However, the current productivity of finger millet in farmers' fields is low and among …