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Challenges and opportunities of soil conservation and land management in the dry areas
Land degradation is a serious problem, particularly on vulnerable agricultural lands to soil erosion, which
signifies the temporary or permanent decline in the productive capacity of the land (UN/FAO definition).
Erosion ...
Closing the Feed Gap in Drylands for Enhanced Livestock Productivity and Efficient Resource Use
Livestock is the world’s fastest-growing highest-value agricultural sub-sector already accounting for about 40 % of agricultural GDP globally. By 2050 massive increases over 2005/7 amounts of cereals, dairy and meat will ...
Morphological and Productive Aspects of Four Syrian Olive Cultivars
Syria has a rich variety of olive (Olea europaea L.) germplasm that has not been fully explored yet. The expansion in olive production in Syria to less favorable environments implies the necessity of acquiring reliable ...
Genome-Wide Scans Reveal Multiple Selection Sweep Regions in Indigenous Sheep (Ovis aries) from a Hot Arid Tropical Environment
Animals living in extreme environments demonstrate the adaptive resiliency of species to diverse ecosystems. This research suggests that the possible selection pressures shaping the genome architecture of the study populations ...
Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation for Improved Water Productivity of Dry Farming Systems in West Asia and North Africa
In the dry areas, water, not land, is the most limiting resource for improved agricultural production. Maximizing water productivity, and not yield per unit of land, is therefore a better strategy for dry farming systems. ...
Developing a toolbox for rangeland restoration/rehabilitation in arid environments
Rangelands are recognized for their importance and value in providing society with valuable products and ecosystem services. In such ecosystems, effective management is needed for sustainable plant growth and survival in ...
Agro-Geoinformatics for Nourishing Drylands: A shift in paradigm from landscape to farmscape for ensuring food security and better livelihoods
Geospatial technologies are becoming an integral part of solving the food security equation
from an integrated research and development, aid better intervention and delivery programs,
policy, and outreach. A recent advance ...