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An exploratory Scaling Readiness assessment of the lightweight Raised Bed Machine (RBM) to raise seedbeds for higher farm income
In this report the Scaling Readiness of the ICARDA innovation: the lightweight Raised Bed Machine, is assessed.
Desert Development: Challenges Beyond the Year 2000. Abstracts
Desert Development: Challenges Beyond the Year 2000. Abstracts of the Sixth International Conference on the Development of Dry Lands which was held from 22-27 August 1999 Cairo, Egypt.
Breeding faba bean for resistance to Orobanche spp: past research and future orientation
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the important pulse crops grown in
many parts of the world. Its production and productivity are affected by different
biotic and abiotic stresses. Broomrape (Orobanche and Phelipanche ...
E-Extension and Digital Augmentation of the Egyptian Agricultural Sector
A major challenge is how to create authentic information and innovations for agricultural extension in the digital age. It can be challenging for extension agents and agriculture extension workers to provide farmers with ...
Returns to agricultural mechanization in Egypt: Lessons learned from innovation driven research
In light of both historical and contemporary (political) sensitivity on civil society movements, we chalk out a normative role for the Egyptian private sector, within contemporary systems of agricultural innovation, and ...
Big Data for building Inclusive Agroecosystems: Decoding the big-data ecosystems for efficiency, ecology, economy and impact
Big Data is an important topic in Agriculture and also for ICARDA. This presentation is on Big Data for building Inclusive Agroecosystems: Decoding the big-data ecosystems for efficiency, ecology, economy and impact.
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Economic assessment of some technologies used in irrigated agriculture and their impacts on farmer’s livelihoods: Case of the Egyptian salt-affected soils farms
Salinity is a continuous challenge in Egypt because of the dry climate, and more salt being carried by the Nile River 35 a result of pollution, water shortage, seawater intrusion and human practices. Accumulation of excessive ...
Course Report on Geoinformatics application in agriculture and resilience
The Tigers and Euphrates rivers are the main sources of water supply in Iraq; these two sources are largely utilized in agriculture sector which consumers about 85 % of the total quantity received. However, with haphazard ...
Genetic Variation for Tolerance to Herbicide Imazethapyr in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
Identification of lentil genotypes tolerant to post-emergence herbicides and incorporation of herbicide tolerance in to high yielding varieties can prove a boon for developing effective integrated weed management strategy ...