Bangladesh Science Foundation
| Name of the Project : Climate and Crop Disease Risk Management : An International Initiative in the Asia Pacific Region |
Country: Bangladesh, India, Australia, USA, Cambodia, The Netherlands, Switzerland |
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| Project Location: Bangladesh, India, Australia, USA, Cambodia, The Netherlands, Switzerland | Professional staff provided By the company: 67 |
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| Name of Client: Asia Pacific Network, Japan and Bangladesh Science Foundation | No. of man-months: 45 | ||||
| Start Date (month/year): January 2006 | Completion Date(month/year): December 2012 |
Approx. value of services: | 12.0 Million Taka | ||
| Name of Associate Firm, if any: | Bangladesh Center for Development Research. Bangladesh Agricultural Univ. Bangladesh Agril. Research Inst. |
No. of man-months of professional staff provided by associate firm(s): | |||
| No. : 15 | Man-month: 18 |
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| Senior Staff Involved and Functions Performed: | |||||
| Samsul Huda, University of Western Sydney, Australia Robert Spooner-Hart, UWS, Australia Chris Derry, UWS, Australia Tamrika Hind-Lanoiselet, NSW Australia Gordon Murray, NSW DPIF, Australia Holger Meinke, Queensland Australia Kep Coughlan, Queensland, Australia M Asaduzzaman, Bangladesh Science Foundation, Bangladesh Preap Visarto, Cambodia Philip Charlesworth, CARDI, Cambodia Y.S. Ramakrishna, India Suseel Desai, CRIDA, India Ram Thakur, (ICRISAT), India R. Jagannathan, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India Chirantan Chattopadhyay, India Subba Rao, CRIDA, india Safi Khan, (BCKV), India Indrabrata Bhattacharya, BCKV, India Saon Banerjee, BCKV, India L. S. Rathore, (NCMRWF), India Jim Hansen, Columbia University, USA Ken Boote, University of Florid, USA Jerry Hatfield, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, USA Kees Stigter, Agromet Vision, The Netherlands M Sivakumar, (WMO), Switzerland |
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| Detailed Narrative Description of Project: The International Workshop on Climate Prediction and Agriculture : Advances and Challenges held at WMO suggested that the potential for integrating medium-range (3 to 10 days) weather forecasting with historically and seasonally-based climatic forecasting to facilitate strategic decision making in agriculture be actively exploited. The current project aims to secure regional integration of existing research in the areas of climate, crop, disease epidemiology and food security through the development of predictive modeling capabilities for proactive risk management. The value of the approach is demonstrated via concurrent application to three index crops (peanut, canola and mustard) in selected areas, and the development of risk communication through engagement with local stakeholders. A range of eminent scientists who are already involved in APN’s current Science Agenda are providing the required scientific and policy-analytical linkage. The project will develop environmentally friendly management strategies, including limited pesticide usage, thereby increasing sustainability while contributing to strategic food production. |
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| Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by the Organization : The overall aim of the project is to develop a regional risk management approach for selected climate-sensitive crop diseases. The specific objectives are:
The achievements of the Project are:
· Existing data have been identified; and testing of the preliminary version of the models with existing data has been initiated · Appropriate field experiments have been initiated or planned · Questionnaires are in preparation to identify most urgent primary users of products of models, and advisory services · A work plan for the remainder of the project, with individual and group responsibilities to achieve objectives · Organization of a scoping/planning workshop in Hyderabad to bring together major research interests, discuss opportunities for integrating existing work and future efforts to meet a common goal, and to explore common ground between existing models for a range of relevant parameters. This was an important activity for developing and building on existing collaborations. Component work by participants was presented during the Scoping/Planning Workshop. |
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