agriculture

Future changes in growing degree days of wheat crop in Pakistan as simulated in CORDEX South Asia experiments
Keywords:

Agriculture · Climate change · Food security · Growing Degree Days (GDD) · Temperature · Wheat

Future changes in growing degree days of wheat crop in Pakistan as simulated in CORDEX South Asia experiments

Climate change has become a global phenomenon having severe ramifications on socio-economic sectors such as agriculture, water resources, environment and health. The effects of changing climate are much more prominent on developing economies as compared to the implications on well-developed industrial powers. Pakistan is one of the struggling agricultural economies confronting the issues of food insecurity...

Shaheen, N., Jahandad, A., Goheer, M., & Ahmad, Q. (2020). Future changes in growing degree days of wheat crop in Pakistan as simulated in CORDEX South Asia experiments. APN Science Bulletin, 10(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2020.1221

Evaluation of best management practices with greenhouse gas benefits for salt-affected paddy soils in South Asia
Keywords:

Agriculture · Climate change · Greenhouse gas emissions · Management practices · Salinity

Evaluation of best management practices with greenhouse gas benefits for salt-affected paddy soils in South Asia

Anthropogenic climate change has caused increased soil salinity in South Asia due to saltwater intrusion caused by sea level rise, input of fertilizers with high salt index, and irrigation malpractices, etc. Salinity has a multitude of impacts on plant and soil processes, leading to alterations in gas fluxes and rice productivity. The remedial measures adopted...

Lokupitiya, E., Agrawal, M., Ahamed, T., Mustafa, N., Ahmed, B., Vathani, A., . . . Paustian, K. (2020). Evaluation of best management practices with greenhouse gas benefits for salt-affected paddy soils in South Asia. APN Science Bulletin, 10(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2020.1042

Benefits and costs of risk insurance in selected countries of Asia
Keywords:

Agriculture · Benefits · Climate change adaptation · Costs · Disaster risk reduction · Risk insurance

Benefits and costs of risk insurance in selected countries of Asia

Several risk insurance initiatives have been implemented at the grassroots level for reducing the vulnerability of communities to natural disasters. Despite these efforts, the penetration of risk insurance in developing Asia is poor compared to many developed countries due to several barriers that this sector is facing and the cost of insurance premiums is an...

Prabhakar, S., Pereira, J., Bakar, A., Solomon, D., Pulhin, J., & Cummins, J. (2018). Benefits and costs of risk insurance in selected countries of Asia. APN Science Bulletin, 8(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2018.265