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Shinier cows, more and better milk, income increase: First results of co-designing silage technology with a women farmer group in Tunisia
Small-scale livestock farmers in Central Tunisia are suffering from scarcity of feed resources and increasing feed prices. Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, prices for feed concentrates have significantly increased ...
Maintaining production in water-scarce environments
Can conservation agriculture deliver for farmers across the Arab World?
Pushing toward the integration of crop-livestock and conservation agriculture
Tunisia – A modern farming town in northern Tunisia, Siliana is one of the first places in this progressive North African country of 11 million people to adopt conservation agriculture and its use in crop-livestock systems. ...
مشروع حول تقييم تأثير خيارات حركة الإدارة المستدامة للأراضي لتحقيق حيادية تدهور الأراضي
تدوينة من المشرف عن الإعلام في المندوبية الجهوية للتنمية الفلاحية بزغوان حول ورشة العمل التي نظمتها ايكاردا في زغوان لتقديم مشروع حول تقييم تأثير خيارات حركة الإدارة المستدامة للأراضي لتحقيق حيادية تدهور الأراضي
Rangeland Women: Why Supporting Them Could Save Tunisia’s Degraded Ecosystems
Across the drylands, there is a widespread misconception surrounding rural women's involvement in rangelands.
Women's roles in livestock rearing, crop cultivation, and climate change adaptation, are either diminished or ...
FAO/ICARDA webinars on measuring evapotranspiration - now open
The webinars cover a number of evapotranspiration measurement themes including underlining the time and space scale of measurement applications and analyzing their accuracy and suitability for use in arid and semi-arid ...
ICARDA and SAHARA & Sahel Observatory: Building Resilient Pastoral Systems
ICARDA scientists recently met with The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) team of experts to discuss the potential of collaboration in research on pastoral systems and adaptation to address climate change impacts on rural ...
Young Researcher wins CIRAD award on Tropical Veterinary Medicine
Ms. Mariem Rouatbi, Phd candidate and young Dryland Systems scientist has won an award by the International Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) for the best research summary presented at the first Joint ...
Low-Cost Machinery for Better Rural Livelihoods in Tunisia
The Blog shows how ICARDA's context-adapted technologies and machines significantly improve the livelihoods of dryland small-landholders in the Tunisian Agroecological Living Landscape (Kef-Siliana Transect) – the hardest ...
Turning the tide on drought in Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco
The blog is about the work of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), CGIAR, and its many Research Centers towards scaling up the deployment of water-smart agricultural solutions to slow the march of land ...