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Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1982/83
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Agricultural Productivity in the WANA Region
The interest of governments, international organizations, NGOs and the general public has recently been aroused by studies considering the use of existing agricultural technology, the use of innovations in such technology ...
Germplasm Program Cereals Annual Report 1998
This report summarizes the key accomplishments and efforts of the Germplasm Program Cereals at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 1998.
Plant Breeding with Farmers: A technical manual
This manual on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is based primarily on the direct experience derived from several years of implementing PPB programmes in a number of countries and on a number of crops, and secondly, from ...
Adoption and Economic Assessment of Improved Technologies
This chapter attempts to provide a more or less clear picture of the economic valuation
(examination of the costs and benefits on using these technologies- trade-offs with
respect to the conventional ones), and their level ...
Integrated Agricultural Production Systems Nile Valley - AWPB Year I March 2014 - March 2015 - Revised Cover Letter
Revised version of the work plan and budget of IFAD grant titled, “Integrated Agricultural Production Systems for the Poor and Vulnerable in Dryland Areas.”
Innovative Agriculture for Food Security: An integrated agro-ecosystems approach
Agricultural research has improved the lives of millions of people in
the past three decades. But today, poverty, hunger, lack of access
to food and nutrition remain a daily fact of life for millions of people
in many of ...
Rural Livelihood Assessment in the Mountain Areas of Yemen
Poverty is considered by several scientists and researchers as results of a set of natural and human factors, domestic policies and external factors that come together to create an environment conducive to the occurrence ...
Enhancing Food Security in Arab Countries
A research for development initiative working across ten countries to raise wheat production and reduce the Arab World’s growing dependence on costly wheat imports.