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Similarity and Suitability Analysis to Assist the Out-Scaling of Sustainable Water and Land Management Practices in West Asia and North Africa
Water scarcity and land degradation are among the most important factors that affect agricultural production and sustainability in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. Through the Water benchmarks project, ICARDA ...
Selection and Characterization of Badia Watershed Research Sites
This report describes the use of improved methodologies developed for identifying water-harvesting sites. It also provides general guidelines for determining site potential in relation to various parameters. The approach ...
The use of the microcatchment water harvesting for fodder shrub production
The Badia constitutes about 90% of the total land area of Jordan, which is 89 342 km2. Its average annual rainfall is < 200 mm. The area with annual rainfall of 100–200 mm is considered the promising rangeland for ...
Mapping climate change in Iraq and Jordan
This working paper provides a synthesis of the climate change assessment studies undertaken in Iraq and Jordan in the context of the IFAD-funded and ICARDA-implemented Project ‘Improving food security and climate change ...
Assessment of genetic diversity and yield performance in Jordanian barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) landraces grown under Rainfed conditions
Background: Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a major cereal crop, which is cultivated under variable environmental conditions and abiotic stresses in marginal areas around the globe. In this study, we evaluated 150 Jordanian ...
Microcatchment water harvesting systems for fruit trees and shrubs
This report will focus on results of 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons in which the conventional handmade microcatchment was compared to the mechanized one through research done at the Jordan University of Science and Technology site.
بدرة الزعبي تحقق الأمن المعيشي لأسرتها وتسعى لتوسعة مشروعها لتصنيع الألبان
ICARDA is working with dairy processors to enhance dairy products quality. ICARDA developed different tools and technologies that suites small scale dairy processors in the Middle East to improve product quality and enhance ...
Adaptation of Chickpea in the West Asia and North Africa Region
This book is a result of a workshop held at ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria in Nov 1992, organized jointly by ICARDA and ICRISAT, in which researchers from 11 important chickpea-growing countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) ...
Review Panel of the Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) on Social, Economic and Policy Research across ICARDA
Review Panel of the Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) on Social, Economic and Policy Research across ICARDA and ICARDA'S response to the panel
Effect of water harvesting techniques on water productivity and soil erosion
The Jordan Badia is representative of the vast drier environments of the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. Pasture rangeland covers the majority of the Badia, although the vegetative cover is not dense. The vegetation ...