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Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Can pastoralists benefit from payments for ecosystem services?
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience : Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Can pastoralists benefit from payments for ecosystem services? Blog about learning from pastoralists on how to respond to uncertainty
Diversified Cropping System: Relay Intercropping of Lentils with Chickpeas [Morocco]
A Diversified Cropping System (DCS) results in a more resilient and productive cropping
system. In this case, chickpeas were introduced as a relay intercrop between established
lines of lentils. This not only had no negative ...
Selection by Stone
blog about Selection by Stone with farmers
Conservation Agriculture: strengthening crop production in marginal areas
Blog of Conservation Agriculture: strengthening crop production in marginal areas
Promoting sustainable solutions to overcome feed shortages
Livestock farmers across the Dry Areas of the world are forced to contend with multiple constraints – not least the limited availability of feed, a resource that is becoming scarcer with the effects of climate change: lower ...
Advantages of the new advanced lines of crop wild relatives in farmer’s fields during the season 2019-2020
The extra harsh climatic conditions of the season 2019-2020 posed a great challenge to our improved lines emanating from crop wild relatives project (DIIVA-PR) especially in Safi region where rainfall was less than 100 mm. ...
Women Farmers Show the Way
The blog is based on book chapter Najjar, D. (2015). Women's Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme through Cactus Cultivation and Adjusted Irrigation. In Buechler, S. and Hanson, ...
FAO discusses the Contribution of Livestock to Food Security in the Countries of the Near East and North Africa region
FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa concludes a two days’ regional consultation in Cairo to discuss the contribution of Livestock to Food Security in the region.
The conference gathered 65 Senior Technical ...
Cactus cultivation as adaptation method for women in Egypt
The blog is based on book chapter Najjar, D. (2015). Women's Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme through Cactus Cultivation and Adjusted Irrigation. In Buechler, S. and Hanson, ...
New research published studying plants' diversity in arid and desert rangelands in Tunisia
This blog is highlighting the efforts of ICARDA scientists in characterizing various indigenous rangelands plants to discover their human health benefits and their attributes as feed for livestock and wildlife.