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Assessing the impact of soil and water conservation structures in the Ethiopian highlands. A case study from the Lake Tana Basin.
Without well planned adaptation efforts climate change is predicted to affect the agricultural
sector in Eastern Africa and to ultimately reduce agricultural yields and hamper efforts to achieve
food security and reduce ...
Introducing legumes for improving nutrition and economic resilience of cereal-based agri-food systems of the African and Asian drylands
Improving nutrition and economic resilience with cereal-based agri-food systems adapted to the drylands under a climate crisis in Africa and Asia: informing policies, guiding investment and increasing the capacities at ...
Introducing the CGIAR research program on dryland systems
Presentation on Introducing the CGIAR research program on dryland systems
ICARDA Efforts to Promote In Situ/On-farm Conservation of Dryland Agrobiodiversity
Dryland biodiversity has only recently got due attention because of its potential to contribute in overcoming the effects of global challenges caused by land degradation and and climate change (FAO, 1989). More particularly, ...
Accelerating Knowledge Sharing on Global Dryland Solutions For systems transformation
Accelerating knowledge sharing across the global drylands on solutions for dryland agriculture properly described for outscaling (conditions for success, readiness for scaling) and assessed for multiple benefits
ICARDA Country Brief Series: Ethiopia
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) country brief series provides a snapshot of the work ICARDA has done and what is ongoing in the different countries in which ICARDA operates. It ...
Annual forage legumes in dryland agricultural systems of the West Asia and North Africa Regions: research achievements and future perspective
Forage legumes are vitally important to animal production
in the dryland farming systems of the Mediterranean
region. Of the diverse forage-legume species
adapted to the Mediterranean climate, vetches, (Vicia
spp.), ...
Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale project aims to reduce food insecurity and improve livelihoods of poor ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising Climate-Smart Practice for Dryland Agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of
limited amounts of water to essentially
rainfed crops to improve and stabilize
yields when rainfall fails to provide
sufficient moisture for normal plant
growth - is an effective ...
Summary Report of the DryArc – Australia Dialogue on dryland cereal-based and agro-silvo pastoral systems transformation and Research and Development Interface, August-September 2020
This brief summary report presents highlights and key messages from the three webinars -
Webinar 1: Plugging the rainfed gap and de-risking sustainable intensification in cereal-based systems (including legumes, forages ...