Construction of dams indispensable for preventing floods

Data and Farming Innovations Aiding Crop Pest Risk Prediction and Management in Low Income Countries

Novel Solutions in the form of pest risk alert systems now present a unique opportunity for low income countries to ...

Floods in Pakistan threaten food security, destroy important crops

Monsoon floods devastate commercial crops, cause loss of $1.7 bn in Sindh: study

A recent by the International Centre for Integrated Mountains Development (ICIMOD) and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) has revealed that ...

Nepal Launches Digital Soil Map by CIMMYT

A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties for any province, district, municipality ...

Tracking the effects of glacial melting at the top of the world

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, stretching for more than 2,000 miles, is home to the world’s highest mountains. Names like ...

EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS SAVING LIVES DURING NEPAL’S MONSOON

or days leading up to the disaster, Mr. Harisaran Shrestha had been listening to warnings about floods in the Melamchi, ...

Pakistan floods threaten food security, destroy key crops

Floods hit dozens of areas Pakistan Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab. Large tracts of farmland were destroyed in the provinces. If thousands of ...

Floods in Pakistan: On one hand, crop affected by water stagnation, on the other hand water scarcity problem

After floods in many areas of Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab, farmers' agricultural lands have not been able to grow ...