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Services to enable learning, technology transfer and scaling-up of sustainable land and water management innovations.
The Menarid Knowledge Management initiative offers three services that will improve the effectiveness and wider use of IFAD projects – and potentially other rural development initiatives active in sustainable land and water ...
Collaborative Programme Euphrates and Tigris (CPET)
The purpose of the CPET is to improve dialogue and trust on water management and increase information and knowledge based on ground-truth data to provide evidence on water use, service and impacts in the Euphrates and ...
ICARDA-European Commission partnership (1990-2011)
This brief highlights cooperation between the European Commission and ICARDA for programs over the past two decades to improve food security and the livelihoods of rural populations in the world’s dry areas.
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising Climate-Smart Practice for Dryland Agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of
limited amounts of water to essentially
rainfed crops to improve and stabilize
yields when rainfall fails to provide
sufficient moisture for normal plant
growth - is an effective ...
Dairy Goat Management Leads to Lasting Gains for Afghan Women
An ordinary goat distribution and rearing project has provided extraordinary benefits to some of the poorest and most vulnerable women, and wider communities in Afghanistan, and continues to multiply its beneficiaries.
Carbon emission decrease by solar water heating in Iran
This summary informs decision makers and planners at national and regional levels about a potential approach to use solar panels as a clean, cheap, sustainable source of energy. Solar panels can help in organizing communities ...
‘Participatory mapping’ for land and water management (Iran)
This summary informs decision makers and planners at regional levels about participatory mapping as a tool to help communities in planning for better management of natural resources.
Driving Factors Behind the Adoption of Improved Technologies by Lentil Growers in West Bengal
Over the last six decades in India, there has been an unsatisfactory gain in pulse productivity, which is a severe threat to the creation of resilient livelihoods and the overall food and nutritional security of the country. ...
Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable tree species - Acacia modesta
Acacia modesta: A frost-resistant and drought-tolerant tree ideal foralleviating feed shortages and feeding costs.
Climate change and intensive grazing due to increasing livestock numbers are severely affecting arid and ...
Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable shrub species: Silvopasture: offering multiple benefits for agro-pastoralists
Silvopasture is ideally suited to the dry areas where its
application in agro-forestry production systems can help
to improve fodder production, enhance soil health, and
reduce erosion. In India, where the practice is ...