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Seed Info No. 33
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and communication among seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. The purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs, which supply quality ...
A participatory farming system approach for sustainable broomrape (Orobanche spp.) management in the Near East and North Africa
Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.) are aggressive and damaging parasitic weeds which have a tremendous impact on agriculture in East Africa, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Despite the availability of technologies ...
Dominance communautaire dans l’exploitation des espaces pastoraux : impacts sur les modes de vie et implications pour la gestion des parcours du Maroc oriental
Quinze ans après la création des coopératives pastorales au niveau du Maroc oriental, l'exploitation et la gestion collectives des parcours restent toujours un défi majeur. Afin de mieux comprendre comment l'espace pastoral ...
Caravan 24: Review of agriculture in the dry areas
Articles in this issue describe how value-addition options were identified for herbal and medicinal plants in a remote valley in Morocco; how cactus species – that combine hardiness with high market value – are being ...
Mashreq and Maghreb Project Achievements and Lessons Learnt from Phases I and II
In the low-rainfall areas of the countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA), rural livelihoods are primarily based on agro-pastoral production systems in which small ruminants (sheep and goats) represent the principal ...
ICARDA. Ex post Impact Assessment of Natural Resource Management Technologies in Crop–Livestock Systems in Dry Areas of Morocco and Tunisia
Alley-cropping systems using fodder shrubs (Atriplex (sandbush) and cactus (Opuntia ficus indica)) have been introduced in the marginal lands of Morocco and Tunisia through a natural resource management project coordinated ...
Scaling-up Strategy and Action Plan
The aim of research is to contribute to development a nd improvement, as much as possible, of livelihoods. Unfortunately, generally, many research results do not find their way to development projects and stay i n the ...
Generation and exploitation of EST-derived SSR markers for assaying molecular diversity in durum wheat populations
Durum wheat [Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turgidum convar. durum (Desf.) MK] is an important cereal crop economically and nutritionally in the Central Asia and Caucasian, West Asia, and North Africa (CWANA) regions. Durum ...
Community dominance in the use of pastoral territories: Impacts on livelihoods and implications for rangeland management in the Oriental region of Morocco
Fifteen years after the creation of the pastoral cooperatives in the Oriental region of Morocco, collective management of the rangelands still represents a great challenge. in order to better understand how the pastoral ...
Water Benchmarks of CWANA project - Characteristics of Benchmark Research Agroecosystems in WANA: Rainfed, Irrigated, and Marginal Drylands
This report was written in close cooperation with national agricultural research systems (NARS) at the benchmark sites. The six background papers provide valuable information on socioeconomics, natural resources and national ...