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Repositioning agricultural innovation systems in post-Soviet Central Asia
Transforming a centrally planned system of agricultural production to one where individual farmers are accorded choice in crop mix and land use management practices is much more than structural change. Embedded within this ...
Component 1: Ex-ante evaluation for CA based technologies in CWANA
Presentation of Component 1: Ex-ante evaluation for CA based technologies in CWANA
An Econometric Study of Spring Potatoes Production in Hama Governorate (Al Ghab Region) in Syria
The present study was conducted in the province in AL Ghab region(Hama- Syria) during the 2010/2011 cropping season. A random sample of 103 farmers from spring potato farmers in the study area was used. The objective of ...
Socio-Economic Considerations of Salinity: Descriptive Statistics of the Iraq Sampled Farms
This paper is aimed to obtain an understanding of the impacts of salinity on agriculture production, the livelihood options of farmers and responses to technologies available to cope with the salinity problem; Mussayeb, ...
Biophysical and Econometric Analysis of Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques in the Semi-Arid Region of Sidi Bouzid (Central Tunisia)
EUROSOIL 2016 Oral Presentation given by Claudio Zucca Istanbul.
Understanding trends and patterns of production, consumption and trade of pulses within Middle East-North Africa (MENA): implications for research, development and policy within the region
The research community continues to express the concern over a decline in the production of food legumes within the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, despite the growth in average consumption. The underpinnings for ...
Innovation Platform, Farmers’ Organizations, and Market to Empower Small Farmers Benefit from an Autochthonous Meat Sheep Value Chain Under Low Input Production Systems
Regional development in Tunisian livestock has been based mainly on segments rather than on an integrated system approach and a value chains concept. Even though efforts were made to improve production, livestock ...
Agricultural Growth Accounting and Total Factor Productivity in Jordan: Trends, determinants, and future challenges
This article develops new estimates of historical agricultural productivity growth in Jordan. It investigates how public policies such as agricultural research, investment in irrigation capital, and water pricing have ...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Water Harvesting Technologies: A Case Study of Jordanian Arid Area
In this article, we investigate the determinants of farmers’ decisions to adopt water harvesting technologies (WHT) in the arid agricultural area of Jordan. In particular, we investigate the effect of different socio-demographic, ...
Migrants from marginal dry areas in Syria: destinations, employment, and returns
We examine the determinants of migrants’ choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest marginal dry areas in Syria. Qualitative and econometric analysis of cross-sectional data indicates that ...