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Policy Papers & Briefs
January 2015
Asia
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India
Indonesia
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines

This issue brief highlights the challenges women are facing on access to lands, and the strategies in achieving gender justice for land rights - based from the results of the scoping studies on women and land in seven Asian countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines).

Reports & Research
January 2015
Asia
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India
Indonesia
Pakistan
Philippines

This compilation of scoping studies on indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippines reveals how the basic bond of indigenous peoples to land are threatened by forces far more powerful than they are equipped to face.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2014
Pakistan

Social ecological systems (SESs) – spate irrigation system in our case – operate under an environment of stress due to several external and contextual factors. Spate irrigation systems are more complex due to uncertain flows and can exhibit unexpected changes due to novel shocks.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2014
Pakistan

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.

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.