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Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1982/83
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
How to Keep it Adequate: A Validation Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation
Agent-based models are used in a huge diversity of contexts, which complicates the establishment of a shared understanding of model validity and adequate methods for model construction, inference and validation. Starting ...
Institutional Framework Treated Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture
Institutional frameworks (IFs) definition, the reasons why they are needed, some of the common challenges with institutional frameworks for wastewater reuse in agriculture?
Approaches to Total Factor Productivity Measurements in the Agriculture Economy
Productivity is defined as the efficiency of a production system, and as such would be a ratio of units of output per unit of input to the system (James and Carles, 1996). It is also defined as the production value (or ...
Broad bean stain virus: Identification, detectability with ELISA in faba bean leaves and seeds, occurrence in West Asia and North Africa, and possible wild hosts
During a survey of faba bean viruses in West Asia and North Africa a virus was identified as broad bean stain virus (BBSV) based on host reactions, electron microscopy, physical properties and serology. An antiserum to a ...
Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of the Red Palm Weevil in NENA Countries (The Case of Egypt and Saudi Arabia): Ex-post Impact Assessment
Presentation: Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of the Red Palm Weevil in NENA Countries (The Case of Egypt and Saudi Arabia): Ex-post Impact Assessment
Mechanization to Drive A Process for Fertilizer Subsidy Reform in Egypt
Publicly available estimates suggest that close to 30%
of total employment in Egypt is generated from the
agricultural sector (World Bank, 2016). In percentage
terms, the figure is in line with many economies, both
industrialized ...
Technical Report on Cereal Crops Breeding
this trainings aimed to train young wheat breeders from Afghanistan and regional countries in recent classical and molecular techniques for cereals (wheat) breeding, and to increase working collaboration with Afghan NARS ...
Developing a guideline to enhance NARS’ R4D impact and strengthen the institutional linkages between NARS actors in Egypt
The agriculture sector plays a critical role in the economy of developing countries, where the
agricultural sector contributes about 15% of the GDP and employs about 25% of total
employment. Agriculture employs almost ...
Women, Irrigation and Social Norms in Egypt
New research from Egypt demonstrates that women play a far more active role in irrigation than previously thought. Yet women’s contributions to irrigation remain poorly understood and undervalued, limiting their access to ...