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Increasing crop rotation diversity with cover crops builds climate resilience on farms Open

Etienne Sutton, Meha Jain, Kent Connell, Haoyu Wang, Weiqi Zhou , et al. · 2025

Farms in the US Midwest are experiencing disruptive heavy rainfall during the spring planting window and more intense droughts during the summer growing season. Recent analyses of field experiments suggest that increasing crop rotational c…

Tradeoffs between crop yield, agricultural residue burning, and groundwater depletion in India's wheat belt Open

Meha Jain, Victor Hugo Rohden Prudente, Weiqi Zhou, Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nishan Bhattarai , et al. · 2025

Wheat is a staple crop in India, but yields have stagnated and are projected to further decline due to climate change. One way to increase yields is to ensure timely sowing, which allows the crop to mature prior to damaging heat stress at …

Mapping grain crop sowing date in smallholder systems using optical imagery Open

Victor Hugo Rohden Prudente, Mariana Garcia-Medina, Vijesh V. Krishna, Michael Euler, Nishan Bhattarai , et al. · 2025

What discrepancies between farmer perceptions and observational data teach us about smallholder decision making Open

Kurt B. Waldman, Jordan Blekking, Meha Jain, Chewe Nkonde, Noemi Vergopolan · 2025

When Water Runs Out: Adaptation to Gradual Environmental Change in Indian Agriculture Open

Ram Fishman, Meha Jain, Avinash Kishore · 2025

Increasing water scarcity will affect hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers in coming decades, but little is known about the likely forms of adaptation. This study exploits a natural experiment in which heterogeneous geological forma…

To enhance sustainable development goal research, open up commercial satellite image archives Open

Philippe Rufin, Patrick Meyfroidt, Felicia O. Akinyemi, Lyndon Estes, Esther Shupel Ibrahim , et al. · 2025

Observing the Earth with satellites offers clear advantages when it comes to tracking the health of the planet—consistent measurements that can be translated into environmentally relevant estimates, such as carbon, crop productivity, or la…

Mapping Field-Level Maize Yields in Ethiopian Smallholder Systems Using Sentinel-2 Imagery Open

Zachary Mondschein, Ambica Paliwal, Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida, Jordan Chamberlin, Runzi Wang , et al. · 2024

Remote sensing offers a low-cost method for estimating yields at large spatio-temporal scales. Here, we examined the ability of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to map field-level maize yields across smallholder farms in two regions in Oromia …

Formulation, Development and Evaluation of Peel-off Face Mask Open

Meha Jain · 2024

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture Open

Yi Yang, David Tilman, Zhenong Jin, Pete Smith, Christopher B. Barrett , et al. · 2024

Agriculture’s global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture’s environme…

Groundwater irrigation is critical for adapting wheat systems to warming temperatures in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains in India Open

Maanya Umashaanker, Divya Solomon, Preeti Rao, S. V. Singh, Asif Ishtiaque , et al. · 2024

Warming temperatures are reducing wheat yields in India, and one way to reduce negative impacts is to sow wheat earlier. Yet farmers in Northeast India commonly sow wheat past the optimum time window. Previous studies have suggested this d…

Detecting and quantifying zero tillage technology adoption in Indian smallholder systems using Sentinel-2 multi-spectral imagery Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2024

Zero tillage (ZT), an important component of Conservation Agriculture, has enormous potential to curb emissions from residue burning, increase soil organic carbon and water retention, reduce land preparation costs and increase the long-ter…

Financial incentive programs and farm diversification with cover crops: assessing opportunities and challenges Open

Alison Surdoval, Meha Jain, Erica Blair, Haoyu Wang, Jennifer Blesh · 2024

Farmers in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. face tremendous pressure to reduce nutrient losses from agriculture. Increasing crop rotation diversity with overwintering cover crops can support ecological processes that maintain productivit…

Description of Nomophobia Among College Students: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Open

Rajeev Ranjan, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Biswa Ranjan Mishra, Siddharth Sarkar, Ayushi Bharti , et al. · 2024

Background: Nomophobia is a situational phobia evoked by unavailability of smart phone or the thought of the possibility of not having it, not being able to use it and losing it. Currently used instruments for assessment of severity of nom…

Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia Open

Asif Ishtiaque, Timothy J. Krupnik, Vijesh V. Krishna, Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Jeetendra Prakash Aryal , et al. · 2024

Effect of Maze Solving on Attention in Children with Epilepsy: A Pre-Post Research Design Open

Chandra M. Kumar, Gurleen Kaur, Abhay Kapoor, Meha Jain, Dr.Arnab Ghorui · 2024

Using Data-Powered Positive Deviance to Assess the Adoption and Outcomes of Early-Sown Wheat Varieties in India Open

Basma Albanna, Gunnar Hesch, Dominik Naeher, Daniel Otto, Meha Jain , et al. · 2024

The Role of Rural Circular Migration in Shaping Weather Risk Management for Smallholder Farmers in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh Open

Divya Solomon, Meha Jain, Asif Ishtiaque, Arun Agrawal, Joshua Gray , et al. · 2024

Author Correction: Irrigation in the Earth system Open

Sonali McDermid, Mallika Nocco, Patricia Lawston-Parker, Jessica Keune, Yadu Pokhrel , et al. · 2023

Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural residue burning have increased by 75 % since 2011 across India Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2023

Quantifying crop residue burning across India is imperative, owing to its adverse impacts on public health, the environment, and agricultural productivity. Specific information about the extent and characteristics of agricultural crop burn…

Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India Open

Nishan Bhattarai, David B. Lobell, Balwinder Singh, Ram Fishman, William P. Kustas , et al. · 2023

Climate change will likely increase crop water demand, and farmers may adapt by applying more irrigation. Understanding the extent to which this is occurring is of particular importance in India, a global groundwater depletion hotspot, whe…

District-level Agricultural Residue Burning Emissions (DARBE) in India 2011-2020 v1.3 Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2023

The data provides satellite-based estimates of agricultural burned area, crop residue dry matter burned and agricultural residue burning emissions across India from 2011-2020. It also includes visualisation tools used in the emission estim…

District-level Agricultural Residue Burning Emissions (DARBE) in India 2011-2020 v1.3 Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2023

The data provides satellite-based estimates of agricultural burned area, crop residue dry matter burned and agricultural residue burning emissions across India from 2011-2020. It also includes visualisation tools used in the emission estim…

Mapping cover crop species in southeastern Michigan using Sentinel-2 satellite data and Google Earth Engine Open

Xuewei Wang, Jennifer Blesh, Preeti Rao, Ambica Paliwal, Maanya Umashaanker , et al. · 2023

Cover crops are a critical agricultural practice that can improve soil quality, enhance crop yields, and reduce nitrogen and phosphorus losses from farms. Yet there is limited understanding of the extent to which cover crops have been adop…

Positive Psychology Interventions in Patients with Depression: A Review Open

Meha Jain, Madhurima Pradhan, Sujita Kumar Kar, Pankaj Kumar · 2023

Positive Psychology Interventions are a new branch of Psychology. Such interventions employ various techniques to improve psychological well-being and build positive feelings, behaviors, and cognitions rather than focusing on reducing ne…

Using microsatellite data to estimate the persistence of field-level yield gaps and their drivers in smallholder systems Open

Ambica Paliwal, Balwinder-Singh, Shishpal Poonia, Meha Jain · 2023

Institutions and Global Crop Yields Open

David Wuepper, Haoyu Wang, Wolfram Schlenker, Meha Jain, Robert Finger · 2023

We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality.Each point…

Irrigation in the Earth system Open

Sonali McDermid, Mallika Nocco, Patricia Lawston-Parker, Jessica Keune, Yadu Pokhrel , et al. · 2023

District-level Agricultural Residue Burning Emissions (DARBE) in India 2011-2020 v1.2 Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2023

The data provides satellite-based estimates of agricultural burned area, crop residue dry matter burned and agricultural residue burning emissions across India from 2011-2020. It also includes visualisation tools used in the emission estim…

District-level Agricultural Residue Burning Emissions in India 2011-2020 v1 Open

Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain · 2023

The data provides satellite-based estimates of agricultural burned area, crop residue dry matter burned and agricultural residue burning emissions across India from 2011-2020. It also includes supplementary information used in the emission…

Surveying the Evidence on Sustainable Intensification Strategies for Smallholder Agricultural Systems Open

Meha Jain, Christopher B. Barrett, Divya Solomon, Kate Ghezzi‐Kopel · 2023

Food demand is projected to increase significantly over the coming decades. Sustainable intensification (SI) is essential to meet this demand. SI is particularly important in smallholder systems, yet to date it remains unclear what the mos…

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