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		<title>Drought in the grain basket: A silent agricultural crisis in Nepal’s Madhesh Province </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Nepal’s Madhesh Province, widely known as the nation’s ‘Grain Basket’, an unprecedented monsoon failure in July 2025 has led to a severe drought, disrupting rice transplantation and threatening food security. ICIMOD’s Earth Observation analysis reveals over 40% of rice fields under stress, with potential losses of up to 450,000 metric tons, posing a nationwide economic and food crisis. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forest Fires in Nepal: The Unseen Threat of Droughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and dry forests have doubled forest fire incidents in the past decade in Nepal with 2025 projected to be the worst year.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Satellite imagery in rice crop mapping: Sowing the seeds for stronger food security</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2022 – 2023, Nepal achieved a remarkable 4.33 per cent increase in paddy production, churning out 5.72 million metric tons. The images captured by the satellites provided the crucial baseline information that was required to develop this production data. This technology is known as ‘remote sensing-supported crop area mapping ’, and was conducted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Department (MoALD). ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ICIMOD and MoALD: Cultivating an effective partnership through state-of-the-art technologies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sravan Shrestha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Department (MoALD) have been using remote sensing (RS) and machine learning (ML) techniques to adopt new technologies in food security assessment since 2019.]]></description>
		
		
		
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