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Dilshad Ahmad

Bio: Dilshad Ahmad is an academic researcher from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Livelihood. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 39 publications receiving 581 citations. Previous affiliations of Dilshad Ahmad include Indian Institute of Technology Patna & King Saud University.

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TL;DR: In this article, physicochemical studies of pomegranate fruits (Punica granatum) variety Taifi, including total seed juice extracted from unripe, half-ripe and fullripe stages are reported.

339 citations

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TL;DR: Empirical estimates indicated the study area households major adaptation measures were foundation strengthen, elevated ground floor, precautionary saving, and construction of the house with reinforced material, while age, gender, location, and family size were major factors influencing mitigation strategies of households’ level.
Abstract: Pakistan is ranked among the most climate change adversely affected countries of the world due to facing higher frequency of extreme natural hazards events as floods, drought, and earthquakes. Inadequate mitigation measures regarding severity and consecutive events of floods have badly affected millions of households’ livelihoods. Pakistan has experienced five consecutive floods in the current decade from 2010 to 2015. These floods severely affected the mostly districts of Punjab province among these three most flood-affected districts Rahim Yar Khan, Muzaffargarh, and Rajanpur were selected for this research work. This study used the cross-sectional data of 840 flood-affected households from these three districts. Empirical estimates indicated the study area households major adaptation measures were foundation strengthen, elevated ground floor, precautionary saving, and construction of the house with reinforced material. Probit model estimates signified age, gender, location, and family size; monthly income, physical disability, education, and house ownership were major factors influencing mitigation strategies of households’ level. Limited resources, inadequate planning for land use, lack of advanced and early warning system, and inadequate sound financial status were major obstacles regarding households’ level adaptation of mitigation strategies. In addressing household level obstacles regarding advanced adaptation measures, development requires for local disaster policies such as ample spatial planning, codes of house building, practices of building infrastructure, propagation and forecasting updated flood information, and advanced and updated early warning system.

63 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a survey of six wheat-producing districts containing household farms with 402 wheat-growing farmers in Punjab, Pakistan was carried out to understand farmers' attitudes and perceptions of different types of risks, such as which wheat crop is grown.
Abstract: Agriculture involves multiple risks of which environmental and production threats are major ones. Farmers’ risk attitudes and risk perceptions have a significant role in dealing with their decisions, farm-relevant practices and management exposure to risk. Developing countries have carried out limited research work on the variety of risk management issues. This research work quantifies farmers’ attitudes and perceptions of different types of risks, such as which wheat crop is grown. The study relies on a survey of six wheat-producing districts containing household farms with 402 wheat-producing farmers in Punjab, Pakistan. To discover farmer’ attitudes toward risks, the Equally Likely Certainty Equivalent approach has been employed, with the ranking of farmers’ perceptions of four disastrous risk sources, storm rainfall and hail, drought, high input prices and wheat diseases, using a risk matrix. A probit model was employed to analyze the empirical estimation of factors affecting farmers’ attitudes and perceptions. The findings of the study indicate that the majority of the farmers have a risk-averse nature and consider storm rainfall and hail, drought, high input prices and wheat diseases as major threats to their wheat crops. Empirical findings of the study show that gender, religion, age, farming experience, education, credit, farming area, livestock numbers and off-farm income have significant (positive or negative) effects on farmers’ attitudes toward risk and risk perceptions. The study provides a convenient analysis for farmers, researchers, extension services, the agricultural insurance sector, and agriculture policy makers. Policy makers and researchers need to understand farmers’ risk attitudes and risks, providing them with precise knowledge regarding risks and refined risk management tools, and ensuring the provision of agricultural financing and contemporary agricultural extension services.

53 citations

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TL;DR: Daily intake of elements was calculated on the basis of information specified by the manufacturers of different branded formula and baby food on the containers according to the guidelines proposed by European Union legislation (ECC regulation).
Abstract: Health risk for infant and toddler is a serious threat in the presence of many key elements in baby foods and infant formulas. Manufactures are important part of the diet for babies. We have analyzed various essential Ca, Na, Mg, Fe, Cu and Zn and non essential elements Al, As, Cd, Hg, Pb, Sb and Sn in 56 samples, collected in different area of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Essential elements were analyses and observed the result according to the guidelines proposed by European Union legislation (ECC regulation). Non essential elements were comparable with the set limit by international pediatric guideline of infant formulas. Mercury (Hg) was not detected in any samples whereas Pb and Cd were detected in almost all samples with mean range of 5 ug cd /l and 5 ppm. Sb and Sn were analyzed in 59 and 23% samples in the range of 0.04 and 0.054 ppm. Rusks and biscuits type of food showed a little higher concentration of some elements. Daily intake of elements was calculated on the basis of information specified by the manufacturers of different branded formula and baby food on the containers. Keywords: Infant formula, baby food, toxic elements, Pb, Cd, Cu, Fe.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, household vulnerability and resilience of flood disaster in three districts of Punjab province were detailed and a subjective method was used in the study to weight the components of vulnerabilities and resilience.
Abstract: An environmental variation has caused Pakistan an alarming portrait of vulnerability in flood disasters. The government has focused on a number of realistic actions, heartening insertion of disaster risk-lessening measure by local disaster management policies instead of conventional dealings of aid-based approach due to the destructive outcome of floods and other natural disasters. In this study, household vulnerability and resilience of flood disaster in three districts of Punjab province were detailed. Data of a sample of the 840 inhabitant respondents of flood-prone areas of three districts of Punjab, which were severely affected in flooding of 2010, were collected from household respondent by face-to-face meeting and from Provincial Disaster Management Authority Punjab. A subjective method was used in the study to weight the components of vulnerability and resilience. In the empirical finding, higher vulnerability and lower resilience to the flood were found in these study areas. Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur districts were more vulnerable (higher composite vulnerable index score) and less resilient (lower composite resilience index score) in contrast to Rahim Yar Khan. The mutual contribution of local and provincial disaster management authorities can play the significant role in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience of the inhabitants of flood-prone areas through strengthening awareness and vigilance, training regarding improving capacity of building and lessening flood costs.

31 citations


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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
Abstract: The talk with present the key results of the IPCC Working Group III 5th assessment report. Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, the report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.

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01 Jan 2016
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735 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The economics of money banking and financial markets are discussed in this article, where the authors propose a system to find the most infectious downloads of books about money banking, but instead of enjoying a good book with a cup of tea, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their laptop.
Abstract: Thank you very much for reading the economics of money banking and financial markets. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their favorite readings like this the economics of money banking and financial markets, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their laptop.

605 citations

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TL;DR: This book discusses security and Vulnerability in Livelihood Systems, as well as tracking and Tackling Food Vulnerability, in the Sahel region.
Abstract: List of Diagrams - List of Graphs - List of Maps - List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - Glossary of Foreign Terms - Introduction - Security and Vulnerability in Livelihood Systems - Coping and Adapting - Monitoring How People Feed Themselves - Drought, Food Insecurity and Early Warning in Mali - Livelihood Safety Nets: the Inner Niger Delta in the Sahel - Livelihood Systems - Production Entitlements - Exchange Entitlements - Coping and Adaptive Entitlements - Tracking and Tackling Food Vulnerability - References - Index

420 citations