Food, Water, Energy, and Trade in South Asia Organizer: Aditya R. Khanal (Tennessee State University)
South Asia region has intricate challenges around food and nutritional security, water scarcity, energy access, and trade dynamics. These issues and factors related to food, water management, energy sustainability, and trade policies also shape development and stability in the region. The presentations and discussions in the session highlighted these aspects, including empirical findings on energy transition in agriculture and land market pathways in Bangladesh, adoption and implications of sustainable energy use practices in farm water management in Nepal, implications of climate change, price volatility, and trade policy in South Asian grain markets and India, as well as the link of green revolution and obesity in India.
Lead-off speaker: Ashok K. Mishra (Arizona State University)
Lightening paper presenters/ speaker: Marie-Charlotte Buisson (IWMI-CGIAR); Kayode M. Ajewole (USDA - Economic Research Service); Kashi Kafle (Texas A & M); Madhuri Saripalle (Krea University, India); Ethan Sabala (USDA), Kumar Ashutosh (Krea University, India)
Discussant: Dikshit Poudel (University of Georgia)
2023
South Asian Agriculture in the Twenty-first Century: Poverty Alleviation and Sustaining Resources
