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Use of Conservation Agriculture in Crop-Livestock Systems (CLCA) in the Drylands for Enhanced Water Use Efficiency, Soil Fertility and Productivity in NEN and LAC Countries – Project Progress Report: Year I - April 2018 to March 2019
The CLCA project goal is to sustainably increase production and enhance climate resilience of small farmers’ communities and their crop-livestock production systems in drylands. To develop in participation with smallholder ...
Seed Info no. 57
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication between seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region and beyond. Its purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs ...
Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
Since the dawn of agriculture, crop yield has always been impaired through abiotic
stresses. In a field trial across five locations worldwide, we tested three abiotic stresses,
nitrogen deficiency, drought and salinity, ...
Genotyping and Genome Wide Association Studies in Barley
The training on “Genotyping and Genome Wide Association Studies in Barley” was organized from 17 to 22 June 2019 at ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco. The course was originally planned and designed to support the M.Sc. and Ph.D. ...
Research innovations on dual-purpose barley genotypes for green forage and grain feed
Report on Farmers day organized at ICARDA Research Station, Marchouch in Morocco on 28 April 2019
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decisions to Adopt Improved Technologies in Semi-Arid Farming Systems: A case study of the barley variety Kounouz and feed blocks technology in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of innovative agricultural technologies to boost productivity, incomes, and food security for farmers, the adoption rate by smallholders in Tunisia’s livestock-barley systems is very slow. This ...
Can ruminant metabolizable energy of barley, chickpea and lentil straw be predicted using chemical composition?
This study attempted to generate simple and robust models to predict metabolizable energy (ME) content of barley, chickpea and lentil straw using chemical composition. Crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), ...
Selection by Stone
blog about Selection by Stone with farmers
Multiple element concentration in the grain of spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) collection
Multiple element analyses were carried out to investigate variation in element concentrations in barley grains of 336 genotypes. Of 13 elements analyzed, Ba ranged from 0.2 to 8.9 mg kg−1, Ca from 186.4 to 977.5 mg kg−1, ...
200068 FAO improvement Landraces Wheat Barley North Africa Fourth_Fourth Technical report Results
Bread wheat, durum wheat and barley are the major staple food crops of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. In these countries, both wheat and barley are used for making bread and other products for human consumption. Barley is ...