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Highlights: Quantitative evidence from a cross-country sample of 4772 rural households. Smaller farms (2 ha) benefit most from farm diversity. Dietary diversity increases with...

Poverty is endemic in the highly populated Eastern Gangetic Plains where agriculture is critical to more than half the population. However, the mechanisms to support agriculture for development are contested...

With rising physical and economic scarcity of water, increasing or sustaining agricultural production while limiting or reducing consumptive water use is an urgent challenge. This article examines the case...

CONTEXT Adaptation to climate change is crucial to achieve food security and sustainable agricultural development. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on climate action urges to...

Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many...

The present study analyses the income, saving and saving gap among agricultural households (HHs) to understand their investment behaviour, using the data obtained from the NABARD All...

The World Bank supported Government of Assam to organise an ‘Eat Right Mela’, the first of its kind in any districts of India, at Barpeta, one of the seven Aspirational Districts...

Handbook for Scaling Irrigation Systems is a joint publication between IFAD and IFC on how to develop and scale innovative solutions to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and increase crop...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to serious economic and livelihood challenges, especially for the rural communities of India. However, despite these challenges, there are many examples...

Integrated farming systems (IFS) entail a holistic approach to farming aimed at meeting the multiple demands (impart farm resilience, farmer livelihoods, food security, ecosystem...