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International Winter Wheat Improvement Program: serving global breeding community
International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (www.iwwip.org) was established in 1986 as a cooperative project between the Government of Turkey and CIMMYT. The main objective was development of winter and facultative wheat ...
Agricultural water productivity Hotspots of irrigated areas in 2006
The Hot spots of high and low water productivity was done by classifying the biophysical agricultural water productivity (kg/m3) layer into three classes: (i) High water productivity which includes values exceeding 1.0 ...
Climate-smart Rainfed Agriculture for Dry Areas
The course conducted by ICARDA focused on the different approaches towards rainfed
agriculture, the different conditions that guide us towards solutions, and the interpretation
of solutions on long-term sustainability of ...
Genetic Analysis of Grain Yield and it's Components for some Populations of Faba Bean
The recurrent selection was applied on four F2 populations of faba bean at Terbol research station (ICARDA)- Lebanon, during 2013 summer season, advanced F3 populations were evaluated during 2013-2014 winter season to ...
An Agro-economic Comparison between Dwarf and Long Green Beans Production with Soilless Production System under Greenhouse Condition in UAE
Green bean is an important vegetable crop grown in open field and under greenhouse condition in the Arabian Peninsula (AP) Region. ICARDA previous studies show that the yield and water productivity of the green beans in ...
Evaluation of Awassi sheep genotypes for growth, milk production and milk composition
We evaluated growth, milk production and composition of Awassi genotypes based on 9 years data collected from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) flock kept in Tal Hadya station, ...
Towards an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effectiveness of land restoration interventions in Badia, and a framework to enhance the impact of land restoration.
This report was produced in the frame of the Project titled “Sustainability and Operationalization of Established Regional Agricultural Research Centers in Five Arab Countries”, funded by the Arab Fund for Economic & Social ...
Agricultural water productivity for irrigated areas in 2008
Agricultural Water Productivity (WPM) (kg/m3) was determined for each pixel by dividing crop productivity (kg/ha) raster layer by seasonal crop water use in terms of actual evapotranspiration (m3/ha) raster layer. The WPM ...
Selecting Lentil Accessions for Global Selenium Biofortification
The biofortification of lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus.) has the potential to provide adequate daily selenium (Se) to human diets. The objectives of this study were to (1) determine how low-dose Se fertilizer application ...
Adoption and Economic Assessment of Improved Technologies
This chapter attempts to provide a more or less clear picture of the economic valuation
(examination of the costs and benefits on using these technologies- trade-offs with
respect to the conventional ones), and their level ...