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Livelihoods Effects of Zero Tillage among Small and Medium Holder Farmers in the Developing World
The biophysical benefits of conservation agriculture (CA) are well documented in the literature. However, the literature on the economic benefits of CA, especially in the context of small and medium-scale farmers is scanty. ...
A policy option for valuing irrigation water in the dry areas
Participants at the international conference on policies for water and food security in the dry areas, held in June 2013, agreed that, given the fast pace of depletion of groundwater, the issue of water valuation in the ...
Fourth Learning Workshop for MENARID Project Managers: Agenda & Background
Agenda and Background of "Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management, furthering knowledge on groundwater resources management and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems in the GEF MENARID program" workshop ...
Agricultural Policies and Institutions in Iraq- A Historical Perspective
This report presents the most important agricultural policies implemented in Iraq from 1940 up to date.
It is based on a survey conducted by local and international researches has been undertaken to study
the interventions ...
Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Food Crop Production: A Case Study of Farms in West Bank, Palestine
In this study, farm level technical efficiency (TE) and its determinants were
investigated. A stochastic Cobb-Douglas (CD) production frontier was used to provide
estimates of input-oriented TE for a sample of 100 rain fed ...
Services to enable learning, technology transfer and scaling-up of sustainable land and water management innovations.
The Menarid Knowledge Management initiative offers three services that will improve the effectiveness and wider use of IFAD projects – and potentially other rural development initiatives active in sustainable land and water ...
The impact of food and agricultural policies on groundwater use in Syria
During the last three decades, the expansion of irrigation using both surface water and groundwater
resources has had an important positive impact on Syria’s agricultural production. It is an example of success
in achieving ...
Stories of success: Strengthening and scaling up integrated natural resource management in the Middle East and North Africa
This document is a synthesis of outcomes from a knowledge process that was a collaborative effort involving researchers, scientists, and technicians from Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.