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Diversifying crops improves system productivity and resilience for smallholder farmers in rainfed drylands
Diversifying crops improves system productivity and resilience for smallholder farmers in rainfed drylands.
Ecosystem Services: What they are, why they are important and how do we value and manage them
Our health and wellbeing depends upon the services provided by ecosystems and their components: water, soil, nutrients and organisms. Ecosystem services are the processes by which the environment produces resources utilized ...
An exploratory Scaling Readiness assessment of the lightweight Raised Bed Machine (RBM) to raise seedbeds for higher farm income
In this report the Scaling Readiness of the ICARDA innovation: the lightweight Raised Bed Machine, is assessed.
Capacity building of women of farming community for value-addition to locally-produced fruits and vegetables
the objective of this training course was to give an Introduction on value-added products produced from locally-grown fruits and vegetables for longer shelf life, income savings and nutritional diets.
Improving Land and Water Productivity in IGNP Command Area (ICAR – ICARDA Collaborative Project # 8)
poster about Improving Land and Water Productivity in IGNP Command Area.
Why Conservation Agriculture in rainfed drylands in Morocco
Crop yield in the rainfed Mediterranean environment in Morocco, the hot spot for climate change, is highly affected by rainfall variability, temperature extremes, and declining soil quality. Several research findings ...
Evaluation of CropSyst model for clusterbean under hot arid condition
The study on “Evaluation of Cropsyst model for yield and water productivity of clusterbean” was conducted on farmers
field during kharif 2012 at village Mainawali in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. The soils of the area ...
Conservation tillage enhances crop productivity and decreases soil nitrogen losses in a rainfed agroecosystem of the Loess Plateau, China
Conservation tillage has been recommended as one of the effective soil management practices for
mitigating the negative environmental effects of synthetic ammonia application and hence achieving
cleaner agricultural ...
Special Issue on Improving Water Productivity in Dry Areas
About 41% of the Earth’s land area is classified as dryland wherein the farming system is characterized by approximately 300–500 mm of annual rainfall. The low rainfall, which is not only insufficient but irregular, ...
Diversified Cropping System: Relay Intercropping of Lentil with Quinoa (Morocco)
A Diversified Cropping System (DCS) results in a more resilient and intensive cropping
system. In this case quinoa was introduced as an intercrop for lentil. The yield of lentil is
not reduced; hence the system becomes ...