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ICARDA Strategic Plan 2017-2026 Summary
To help break the cycle of poverty, improve food and nutritional security, halt or reverse the alarming process of resource degradation in the dry areas, and help communities adapt to the impacts of climate variability and ...
Modena, il grano di Filippo contro la fame nel mondo
Una
varietà di grano duro resistente alle alte temperature per sfamare milioni di persone, a
cominciare da quelle che vivono nel bacino del fiume Senegal fino ad arrivare, in
prospettiva, a tutte quelle africane colpite ...
Vulnerability of Barley to African Pathotypes of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and Sources of Resistance
The emergence of widely virulent pathotypes (e.g., TTKSK in the Ug99 race group) of the stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici) in Africa threatens wheat production on a global scale. Although intensive research ...
Characterization and utilization of currently grown Turkish wheat landraces
From 2009 to 2014 a nationwide effort was made to document, collect, conserve, characterize and utilize wheat landraces grown by Turkish farmers. Altogether 95 morphotypes were identified representing three species and six ...
Amélioration de la production des plantes haploïdes et haploïdes doublés utilisant la culture des anthères du blé
The production of haploids and double haploids, are widely used techniques in advanced breeding programs to speed-up the
production of homozygote lines. Anther culture is one of the processes of induction and regeneration ...
Changing Food Consumption of Households in Developing Countries: A Bangladesh Case
Increasing incomes, urbanization, and population growth are transforming developing countries. This structural transformation is changing lifestyles and consequently food consumption and agri-food systems. The present study ...
Measuring climate change impacts on farm income in Central Asia
Despite serious influences of climate change on food security and farm income, there is insufficient research in Central Asia on the impact of climate change on agro-ecosystems, farm incomes, and analysis of the potential ...
ICARDA’s New Strategic Plan 2017-2026 Highlights
Non-tropical dry areas cover over 40% of the world’s land surface with a growing population of more than 2.5 billion people. These people grow 44% of the world’s food and keep half of the world’s livestock, yet one in six ...
Adoption of Mechanized Raised Bed Technology for Sustainable Farming System in Sharkia and Assiut Governorates
This report outlines the results of studying two surveyed samples in Assiut and Sharkia governorates in Egypt, each comprising 80 farmers. To identify and compare the various impacts of using raised bed machine (RBM) on ...
A comparative analysis of nonhost resistance across the two Triticeae crop species wheat and barley
Background: Nonhost resistance (NHR) protects plants against a vast number of non-adapted pathogens which implicates a potential exploitation as source for novel disease resistance strategies. Aiming at a fundamental ...