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Practical Guide to Conservation Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa
Conservation agriculture (CA) is a new method of agricultural production that is more productive and environmentally friendly than the common form of agriculture based on plowing and intensive soil tillage. However, adopting ...
Strengthening of the role of home gardens in improving food security in Fergana valley
A training titled “Strengthening of the role of home gardens in improving food security in Fergana valley” was conducted in Kuva district Fergana Province on 6 April 2015. The goal of the training was to improve the ...
Protocole pour l'évaluation de la Biodiversité Agricole (ABD) et Alimentaire à Maradi, Niger, Afrique de l'Ouest
This survey protocol for the Focus Group Discussions (FGD) was developed to assess the diversity of nutritious local foods vs imported foods in Niger, West Africa. The aim of the FGD is to retrieve informations upon (a) ...
Nutrient rich local food diversity in Niger, West Africa: Annual report 2015
In West Africa, many households relied on traditional locally produced foods to reach
household food and nutrition security. With the increased access to market, a number
of imported foods become available to the community ...
Food Security As Resilience: Reconciling definition and measurement
In this paper, we draw out a set of axioms for food security measurement that follow
directly from the internationally agreed 1996 FAO definition. Building on recent work on
the theory and measurement of development ...
Mapping climate change in Iraq and Jordan
This working paper provides a synthesis of the climate change assessment studies undertaken in Iraq and Jordan in the context of the IFAD-funded and ICARDA-implemented Project ‘Improving food security and climate change ...
Seed Info No. 48
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication among seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region and beyond. Its purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs ...
Food system resilience: Defining the concept
In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, the security of food supplies is threatened by many
factors. These include multiple processes of global change (e.g. climate change, rapid urbanization, population
ageing), ...
Consolidated Programme Implementation plan 2015-2018: Drylands Development Programme (DryDev)
The Drylands Development Programme (DRYDEV) is a five‐year initiative (August 2013 to July 2018)
funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Netherlands, with a significant financial
contribution from World ...
Strengthening of the role of home gardens in improving food security in Fergana valley
Training of home gardeners (men and women) in understanding the role of vegetables in human dietary nutrition, and options for different vegetable crops for home gardens.