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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?
New ISI publication on enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection
The replication of the FAP-cucumber trial in Uzbekistan (2013-2014) in Morocco (2015-2016) demonstrated the agronomic replicability of Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP). However, it also revealed that in countries ...
Egypt looks to avert water crisis driven by demand
Egypt has relied on the Nile, Africa's largest river, since the time of the pharaohs. For thousands of years, annual floods dumped rich silt on the banks, allowing the country to serve as a Mediterranean grain reserve. But ...
Mainstreaming gender in agricultural research key to development
The day-long workshop on “Gender mainstreaming for inclusive research and developmental outcomes: Concepts, approaches and lessons learned” was held on October 9 in Cairo, Egypt. Jointly organized by ICARDA, FAO and CGIAR ...
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. ...
Joint meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM network on sheep and goats
Blog about joint meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM network on sheep and goats during 23-25 October 2019. Meknes, Morocco. Efficiency and resilience of forage resources and small ruminant production to cope with global challenges ...
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 ...
Brochure for agricultural advisors
Within the IKI project, we train extension staff in Morocco and some other countries on Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP). Responding to a request by the Moroccan extension service Office National du Conseil ...
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 ...