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Nutritive evaluation of forage species indigenous to the arid rangelands of Tunisia
The current study was carried out to characterize the nutritive potential in terms of ash, CP, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber and (ADF) acid detergent lignin (ADL) and the mineral composition of 12 ...
Business Model: Community-Based Breeding Programs
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Boku University of Austria came up with the idea of community-based breeding program (CBBP) ...
Проблемы и перспективы развития животноводства в Узбекистане (RU); Problems and prospects of livestock development in Uzbekistan (ENG)
На животноводство приходится 31% от всего валового объема продуции сельского хозяйства Узбекистна. Данная отрасль играет большую роль в генерировании доходов сельских жителей страны, поэтому проблемы и перспективы ее ...
Variety adoption and seed commercial behavior: Implications for the chickpea seed system in Ethiopia
This Working Paper presents the yield gaps, adoption of improved varieties, and commercial behavior relating to seed by smallholder chickpea producers. It is based on primary data generated in 2017 from 612 randomly selected ...
Raised-Bed Farming System Technology (RFST) in Egypt: Qualities and Determinants of Adoption in Different Agricultural Livelihood Conditions.
Mechanized raised-bed technology (MRBT) has been recognized as an important component of integrated water management to achieve higher productivity in intensive irrigated systems, such as those found in the Nile Delta. ...
What do we really know about the impacts of improved grain legumes and dryland cereals? A critical review of 18 impact studies
Improved grain legume and dryland cereal (GLDC) varieties hold potential to intensify
smallholder agriculture and improve livelihoods in semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa
and South Asia. To assess the empirical ...
Can Agricultural Citizen Science Improve Seed Systems
Using on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (tricot) for crowdsourcing participatory variety selection is a new citizen–science methodology for agriculture that has been developed by Bioversity International to make ...
Make hay while the sun shines: Gendered opportunities and challenges to innovation in forage production in Afghanistan
This working paper discusses the interface between gender and agricultural innovation systems. More specifically, the working paper investigates how gender norms and roles influence social relations between actors in forage ...
Land Suitability Mapping for Production of Chickpea, Faba Bean and Malt Barley Varieties in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's agriculture has been facing recurrent challenges and the country remains food insecure due to its ever-increasing population and chronically low agricultural productivity despite its high biophysical potential. ...
XW Disease shock, household livelihood strategies and welfare: evidence from banana producing households in Uganda
Farmers experience various shocks that result into massive crop failure there by affecting their livelihoods. Besides the shocks related to climate change, the effects of other types of shocks along with the alternative ...