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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, ...
Gender dynamics in water governance institutions: the case of Gwanda's Guyu-Chelesa Irrigation Scheme in Zimbabwe
The need to incorporate women in development interventions has widely been highlighted in development literature. Despite recent attempts to include women in such efforts, the FAO's 2011 State of Agriculture Report points ...
Application of systematic monitoring and mapping techniques: Assessing land restoration potential in semi-arid lands of Kenya
Drylands cover over 40% of the earth's surface and support over 2 billion people, globally (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). In East Africa alone, over 250 million people depend on drylands for their livelihoods (De ...
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.), ...
Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands
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populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science
methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system
in ...