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Rehabilitation of degraded grasslands in north Syria: use of farmer participatory research to encourage the sowing of annual pasture legumes
A series of experiments on communally-owned grasslands in the barley-livestock zone of north Syria were conducted to test the hypothesis that introduction of Mediterranean annual legumes will increase productivity. The ...
Grasslands in 'Old World' and 'New World' Mediterranean-climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities
Despite their ecological, economic and social importance,
grasslands in areas with Mediterranean climates
continue to receive limited scientific, political and
media attention. The main objectives of this review
are to ...
Halophytes as forages in saline landscapes: interactions between plant genotype and environment change their feeding value to ruminants
This report focuses on three factors that affect livestock production using halophytes – biomass production, nutritive value (NV) of the biomass and voluntary feed intake (VFI). The growth of halophytic forages is widely ...
Adaptation of Crop and Forage Genotypes to Soils Affected by Salinity
This report presents the research in progress for the Iraq Salinity Research project’s research component on the adaptation of crop and forage genotypes to soils affected by salinity. It describes the outcome of three ...
Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production
The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain legumes) under the banner ‘nutritious seeds for a
sustainable future’. A second green revolution is required to ensure food and nutritional security ...
Everfarm ® − Climate adapted perennial-based farming systems for dryland agriculture in Southern Australia
Australian dryland agriculture will be affected by climate change in a number of ways. First,
higher temperatures and changes to rainfall are likely to create greater variability of crop
yields and livestock productivity. ...
Choice of selection strategy in breeding barley for stress environments
Productivity of 3 different 2-year crop rotations: namely continuous wheat, wheat-chickpea, and wheat-fallow, was measured over 4 consecutive seasons beginning in 1991-92 at the ICARDA station, Tel Kadya, Syria. Nitrogen ...
Registration of 'Almaz' kabuli chickpea cultivar
‘Almaz’ kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) (Reg. no. CV-
268, PI 642852) was developed by the Centre for Legumes in
Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) Germplasm Development
Program. It is adapted to winter sowing in ...
Managing Salinity in Iraq's Agriculture: Potential Solutions & Interventions: Approaches at farm, irrigation system and regional level
This report is the second in a series of three publications that comprises an overview of the Iraq
Salinity Assessment. This report documents solutions and impacts identified in the first report in this
series. The third ...
Strengthening the impact of plant genetic resources through collaborative collection, conservation, characterisation, and evaluation: a tribute to the legacy of Dr Clive Francis
This paper is a tribute to the legacy of Dr Clive Francis, who directly and indirectly collected >14 000 accessions
across 60 genera of pasture, forage, and crop species and their wild relatives around the Mediterranean ...