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A GIS-based Approach for Assessing Water Harvesting Suitability in a Badia Benchmark Watershed in Jordan
In arid and semi-arid areas water harvesting techniques can be used to capture and efficiently utilize rainwater runoff to maintain productive and sustainable agro-pastoral systems. With water resources being depleted by ...
Limited Irrigation of Maize and Cotton in Semi-arid Eastern Mediterranean – Part II: Water Use and Stress
In the semi-arid eastern Mediterranean region, crop production occurs under water stress conditions, an expanding situation due to increasing shortages of water. Simple tools and methods are needed to quantify crop water ...
Bread wheat production under water stress and saline irrigation practices
This work is a part of a research programme carried out by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (Bari institute) in cooperation with INRA (France) and ICARDA. The programme focuses on the degree of salt tolerance ...
A model for optimum water allocation with adequate and limited water supplies
Opportunities for the significant capture of new water are now limited. Efficient use of water in agriculture and to increase productivity of limited water resources is the only solution, therefore, it is especially important ...
Rainwater management for the rural poor
About 80% of the world agricultural land is rainfed producing over 60 % of the world food.
NENA region is not and exception where most of the poor live in rural rainfed areas. This
presentation focuses on two agro ecosystems ...