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Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of last-mile market access costs for smallholder farmers in Africa

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This USAID funded activity of CIMMYT “Feed the Future Zimbabwe Mechanization and Extension Activity” — aims to support smallholder mechanization in Zimbabwe to help reduce their labour bottlenecks and improve land and labour productivity making agriculture more profitable and attractive to rural youths. Fund has been secured for the period of two years starting from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2024 for this full time position.

Groundwater plays a critical role in supporting food security, rural livelihoods and economic development for millions of resource-poor households in South Asia. In the Western Indo- Gangetic Plains (Northwest India and Pakistan) groundwater irrigation has underpinned   rapid growth in agricultural productivity over recent decades. However, in the Eastern Indo- Gangetic Plains (Nepal and Eastern India – collectively the EIGP), many farmers continue to face significant barriers to groundwater access (Saha et al., 2016), resulting in lower crop yields, shorter growing seasons, and greater vulnerability to climate change than elsewhere in South Asia (Jain et al., 2017).

Arabinoxylans (AX) are the major dietary fibers (DF) components in wheat and their consumption has been associated with multiple health benefits. However, in most of the countries across the world, the daily DF consumption is well below the minimum quantity suggested by most health organizations. Selection of wheat varieties with higher AX content could be an efficient approach to improve the daily consumption of DF.

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Arabinoxylans (AX) are the major dietary fibers (DF) components in wheat and their consumption has been associated with multiple health benefits. However, in most of the countries across the world, the daily DF consumption is well below the minimum quantity suggested by most health organizations. Selection of wheat varieties with higher AX content could be an efficient approach to improve the daily consumption of DF.

Attaining food security for a growing population and alleviating poverty while sustaining agricultural systems under the current scenario of depleting natural resources, negative impacts of climatic variability, spiraling cost of inputs and volatile food prices are the major challenges in front of Indian Agriculture. The tillage intensive conventional cereal-based cropping systems which is instrumental in achieving of self-sufficiency in food-grain production often led to emergence of second generation problems of green revolution viz., decline in soil organic matter, soil degradation, emergence of multi-nutrient deficiency, soil compaction, crop residue burning etc. leading towards non-sustainability in long-term. Conservation agriculture can be seen as a new way forward for conserving resources and enhancing productivity to achieve the goals of sustainable agriculture, which demands a strong knowledge base and a combination of institutional and technological innovations. Conservation Agriculture (CA) technologies involves the minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover through crop residues, or cover crops, and crop diversification for achieving higher productivity.