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Pakistan Hindu Marriage Act

January, 2015
Pakistan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
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STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF LAND-USE, URBANIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE INTENSITY IN MOUNTAINS: EVIDENCES FROM JAMMU & KASHMIR-INDIA

Reports & Research
January, 2015
India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Pakistan
Urban Tenure
agriculture
urbanization
This study investigates dynamics of land-use shifts, agricultural land-use, and its intensity in relation with urbanization and other factors in Jammu & Kashmir, a mountainous state of India. Results revealed an unfavourable increasing trend in the undesirable ecology class (barren) and declining trend in desirable land-use (forests, pastures and miscellaneous trees) which are likely to have serious long-term ecological implications. Inter-sectoral budgeting analysis revealed that shifts in land are occurring from desirable towards undesirable ecological sector.
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Let the numbers speak : Comparing Better Cotton Fast Track Program participants and non-participants in India, Mali, and Pakistan using agronomic data of the Better Cotton Initiative

Reports & Research
December, 2014
India, Mali, Pakistan
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
environment
farming systems
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
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Pakistan 2025: One Nation - One Vision

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Pakistan
land governance
development
food security
water
government
private sector
women
This document presents the country’s strategy and road-map to reach national goals and aspirations. The ultimate goal envisioned is for Pakistan to be one of the 10 largest economies in the world by 2047. The seven pillars of Vision 2025 are based on the imperatives of embracing change and transformation, and to create new opportunities.
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BMP implementations in Himalayan context: can a locally-calibrated SWAT assessment direct efforts?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Pakistan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
land use
land degradation
Soil erosion due to accelerating runoff in various land cover types pose a serious threat to the long term sustainability of the fragile Himalayan landscape characterized by subsistence farming. Delimitation of high runoff zones, fostering soil erosion in the agricultural dominated watersheds is thus a necessity for watershed managers, NGO’s, urban planners, policy makers, and municipal administrations. The approach is practical, SWAT is a straightforward modeling system using GIS information. The BMP is also a very practical approach to mitigation of runoff accumulation on sub basin.
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Water accounting plus for water resources reporting and river planning. [PhD thesis funded by IWMI through the CGIAR Research Programme on Water Land and Ecosystems]

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Pakistan, Ethiopia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Revitalizing canal irrigation: towards improving cost recovery

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Pakistan, India, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
Cost recovery from irrigation in almost all the countries presents a dismal picture. Low cost recovery coupled with declining government finances has led to the deterioration of both the quality of the built infrastructure and institutions managing and governing such infrastructure. This has created a vicious circle of low cost recovery, poor maintenance of infrastructure, inadequate and unreliable water supply, inefficient and corrupt institutions, and unwillingness of the farmers to pay.
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Livestock in the Pakistan Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP)

February, 2014
Pakistan, Asia, Southern Asia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
rangelands
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Hydrological modeling of large river basins: how much is enough?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, South-Eastern Asia
Hydrological modeling is an indispensable component of water resources research and management in large river basins. There is a tendency for each new group working in a basin to develop their own model, resulting in a plethora of such tools for each major basin. The question then becomes: how much modeling is enough? This study reviews hydrological modeling in four large basins (Nile, Mekong, Ganges and Indus). Based on this review, four areas for action to improve effectiveness and reduce duplication in hydrological modeling of large basins are suggested.
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Global and local genetic diversity at two microsatellite loci in Plasmodium vivax parasites from Asia, Africa and South America

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sudan, Venezuela, Ecuador, Asia, Africa, South America
Background: Even though Plasmodium vivax has the widest worldwide distribution of the human malaria species and imposes a serious impact on global public health, the investigation of genetic diversity in this species has been limited in comparison to Plasmodium falciparum. Markers of genetic diversity are vital to the evaluation of drug and vaccine efficacy, tracking of P. vivax outbreaks, and assessing geographical differentiation between parasite populations._x000D_