Bangladesh can achieve agricultural sustainability and resilience by adopting water management practices with synchronized cropping in the polders of the coastal zone.
A continuously updatable crop suitability geovisualization application for locating the fundamental climate niche of select crops across geographies and temporal scales.
Open access spatial data outlier detection and product version comparison applications for Google Earth Engine that allows modelers and other users to minimize error and uncertainty in remote sensing data models.
The rice transplanter is a walk behind mechanized tool researched and tested in Bangladesh. Mechanical transplanting technology is time, labor and cost saving technology over manual transplanting.
The ‘doubled-up’ legumes system is based on intercropping of grain legumes, with pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) as one component – increasing the total legume yield per unit area.
This dual strikepoint innovation in index insurance design offers high value to farmers while assuring insurers that the contract will not be at risk of collusion within the village.
Securing regulatory approvals and initiating commercialization of transgenic drought-tolerant (DroughtGard or CspB trait) and insect-resistant (Bt trait) (TELA) maize hybrids royalty-free for African farmers to manage frequent droughts and pests.
The 3-D tool provides a multi-dimensional understanding of the value proposition of an index Insurance product for potential or existing clients, and includes guidelines and supporting documents that can be used to perform the client value analyses.
The bundling guidelines resource lays out options and successful methods to bundle index insurance with other mechanisms so that this risk mitigating financial tool will be better able to overcome the binding constraints of farmers.
The use of stress tolerant maize seeds with the financial innovation of agricultural index insurance boosts the income stability and food security of Sub-Saharan maize farmers, bringing those farmers closer to securing comprehensive drought protection
An audit rule provides a failsafe for farmers if an index insurance product fails to trigger payouts when it should, combining the potential for accuracy of direct measurements of average yields with lower costs of an index built from satellite data.
By combining numerical weather model outputs from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department with disease growth and infection models and algorithms providing location-specific crop management advice, farmers can benefit from climate information.
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This early warning system analyzes environmental conditions for potential disease development in crucial wheat-growing areas of Bangladesh. It generates forecast maps and advice for farmers of where and when infection is most likely to strike.
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Agriculture, Agriculture Water Management, Cultivation & Tools and 2 moreSEE ALL
Agriculture, Agriculture Water Management, Cultivation & Tools, Seeds & Stock, Soil ManagementSEE LESS
Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative. By equipping people with the knowledge and tools they need to feed themselves, Feed the Future is addressing the root causes of poverty and hunger, helping people end their reliance on aid, and creating important opportunities for a new generation of young people—all while building a more stable world.