The negative impacts of burning, especially crop yield loss and increased fertilizer costs, translate into decreased income for farmers and puts into danger food security. Once demonstrated, this impact of burning on profits -- not initially understood by many farmers, who burn only because they believe it necessary – eventually drives demand for alternatives. In many regions of Latin America with...

Agroforestry systems have gained increasing recognition as sustainable land management solutions that integrate trees, crops, and livestock to enhance biodiversity, improve soil health, and mitigate climate change. However, the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires present a significant threat to agroforestry landscapes, necessitating the development of fire-adaptive strategies. This rev...

The Mission objectives are as follows:Increasing the reach of farm mechanization to small and marginal farmers and to the regions where availability of farm power is low;Promoting ‘Custom Hiring Centres’ to offset the adverse economies of scale arising due to small landholding and high cost of individual ownership;Creating hubs for hi-tech& high value farm equipments;Creating awareness among s...

Plastic waste continues to increase by 4% every year. One type of plastic is Styrofoam, which comes from polystyrene (PS) polymers. However, Styrofoam has the disadvantage that it is not easily decomposed in nature. It is necessary to replace plastic-based food containers using biodegradable, abundantly available, low-cost natural materials. This research uses rice straw and bagasse with the addit...

The purpose of this inter-country study is to explore further mobilisation of agricultural residues for bioenergy and biorefineries (fuel driven and non-fuel driven) applications, and provide an assessment of potential opportunities, barriers and sustainability issues. The study assesses different uses of agricultural residues in Denmark (for energy and biofuels), the U.S. (for advanced/second gen...

With developments in the technologies for its collection and utilization, rice straw is increasingly removed from the fields to be used for better purposes such as for mushroom and energy production and for cattle feed.This resource covers the following topics:Rice straw collectionUsing rice straw for mushroom productionBiochar production and utilizationUsing rice straw for livestock feedUsing ric...

Crop residue burning significantly contributes to air pollution in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents a causal estimate of the capital rental subsidy on crop residue burning. I involve 1,024 farmers in a field experiment with two arms: a control arm and a capital rental subsidy arm. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, the author finds that the capital rental subsidy...

The Module 2 of the Convening for System Level Impact Toolkit: "Defining the Stakeholders" covers the following questions: what is stakeholder mapping? Why is it important? What are the key steps in the process?It also includes specific tools such as:The "Inclusive Stakeholder Mapping" toolThe "Understanding the Stakeholders" toolThe "Characterizing the Stakeholders" toolThe "Planning for Meaningf...

The course presents an approach for improved mapping and differentiating spatial temporal facts at country level (agro-environmental stratification), using the best remotely sensed data and most modern interpretation/analysis methods.The course is targeted at a broad range of producers and users of spatial and non-spatial agricultural statistics, analysts and technicians in geo-information organiz...

FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available. ...