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Assessment of Past Performance and Lessons Learned
To guide program design, we assessed past research, highlighting successes and failures, both to benchmark projected gains and to derive strategic lessons for the future. This required a progress report on research on the ...
Detection of a new QTL/gene for growth habit in chickpea CaLG1 using wide and narrow crosses
A recombinant inbred line population (RIP-9) derived from an interspecific cross (ILC72 × Cr5-10) was evaluated for growth habit during 2 years (2003 and 2004). This RIP was used to develop a pair of near isogenic lines ...
Ties that Bind: Morocco and ICARDA. Collaboration since 1977 (second, revised and updated version)
Agriculture contributes about 20% of Morocco's gross domestic product (GDP), but this proportion varies widely depending on rainfall. The country has about 8.5 million hectares of good agricultural land, of which nearly ...
Efficient soil water use: The key to sustainable crop production in dry areas of West Asia and North and Sub-Saharan Africa: proceedings of the 1998 (Niger) and 1999 (Jordan) Workshops of the Optimizing Soil Water Use (OSWU) Consortium
Within the next 30 years, the world's population will rise to 7-8 billion, bringing in its wake an urgent need to double the existing levels of world food production. Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Rio Earth Summit ...
CRP-GLDC and FP Narratives Proposal 2018-2022
The Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Agri-food Systems CGIAR Research Program will increase the productivity, profitability, resilience and marketability of critical and nutritious grain legume (chickpea, cowpea, pigeonpea, ...
Impact Assessment of the Village Seed Bank (VSB) program for chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, focusing on the production, distribution, productivity and profitability of seed of improved cultivars
A major objective of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)-funded MyPulses project in Myanmar was the development of improved, high-yielding varieties of pigeonpea, groundnut and chickpea ...