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- Access to piped water increases the probability that rural households in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic will adopt modern sanitation and washing facilities.
- This publication explains why climate change is a growing risk for Pakistan’s agriculture and shows how high-level remote sensing and mathematical programming can provide near real-time data to improve irrigation systems and bolster water security.
- This road map shows how Bangladesh can swap diesel irrigation pumps for solar powered systems to reduce fuel imports, increase farmers’ incomes, and support the country’s clean energy transition.
- State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery, but its effects on forest conservation are ambiguous.
- This publication examines pollution control technologies and looks at their suitability for use in small-scale agriculture.
- This publication analyzes why Asia and the Pacific’s water sector is a significant source of emissions and shows how boosting efficiency, cutting consumption, and harnessing technology can help decarbonize the sector and improve water security.
- This brief explores how efficient private sector-led contract poultry farming—where a farmer produces exclusively for one contractor—can boost the livelihoods of small-scale Indian farmers and support sustainable rural development.
- This brochure explains how the Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) aims to create a legal tool kit to support the conservation and sustainable management of vital ecosystems and help tackle urgent challenges such as climate change.
- Featuring richly detailed satellite images of Indonesia, this report shows how precise Earth Observation (EO) tools can help planners shaping infrastructure, agriculture, and coastal management, as well as climate adaptation and disaster resilience.
- In 2019, the Asian Development Bank approved a project providing Milko Limited Liability Company with a loan facility to support the expansion of the company’s dairy processing, and raw milk and fruit procurement capacities in Ulaanbaatar.
- This brief analyzes India’s One Nation One Ration cards that allow poor migrants to access subsidized grains nationwide and assesses how improving awareness and strengthening technological infrastructure could boost their take up.
- This brief assesses how high-resolution satellite imagery was used in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to map how irrigation schemes changed agricultural production and improved the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
- The Vessel Days Scheme has stimulated economic return but raised concerns about tuna overexploitation.
- While a large portion of the Asian population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods and food security, the agriculture sector is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the region.
- Rice plays a key role in global food security as the world’s most water-intensive crop and the third-largest by area, and its production systems are socioculturally intertwined in Asian societies.
- This study looks at fishing activity in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone in 2012, as well as how it responded to tropical cyclones.
- This innovation project brief shows how the roll out of reliable high voltage electricity supplies to rural parts of India’s Maharashtra state is helping boost agricultural production, tackle poverty, and reduce emissions.
- Food prices at both domestic and global levels have a large influence on export restriction.
- This report shows how cascading crises are pushing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) out of reach of Asia and the Pacific economies and explains how energy, food, and finance systems can boost resilience and kickstart development progress.
- Food security policies can enable the use and consumption of wild foods as a complementary source of food and nutrition.