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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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End of stubble burning by deploying crop-twice and crop-thrice technologies (Samakai)

August 12, 2021


Samakal (Bangladesh) published an op-ed on how starting from the dawn of civilization to the current era human beings have devastated the environment in many different ways for their immediate need.   It is a common practice to burn the crop residues as removing them is way too expensive. However, the cheapest option for the farmer is the most expensive one for nature. According to IFPRI, crop residue burning generates an estimated annual economic loss of USD 30 billion in Northern India. Farmers think that burning is the cheapest solution for them to sow the next crop early which indirectly hits others so hard that, even costs their lives. 

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