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Adaptive Policy Responses to Climate Change Scenarios in the Musi Catchment, India
In India the stresses on water resource systems have increased, due in part to increased demand for scarce water supplies. Yet, what could be of greater concern is the potential long-run threats of climate change affecting ...
Disaster risk reduction management in the drylands in the Horn of Africa
This technical brief is part of a series prepared by experts for the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought
in the Horn of Africa.
Research Prospectus: A Vision for Sustainable Land Management in Central Asia
Drylands occupy 41% of earth’s land area. It holds 1/3 of the world population. Nearly 1.9% of the total 3392 Mha of degraded lands worldwide.
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising Climate-Smart Practice for Dryland Agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of
limited amounts of water to essentially
rainfed crops to improve and stabilize
yields when rainfall fails to provide
sufficient moisture for normal plant
growth - is an effective ...
Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) utilization for rehabilitating rangelands in arid regions of Tunisia
Proceeding paper on Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) utilization for rehabilitating rangelands in arid regions of Tunisia:
Currently, rangelands contribute 10-25% of livestock feed requirements, compared to 65% in the 1960s, ...
Development and implementation of a pilot village-based goat improvement scheme
Community based goat breed improvement was established to improve the productivity performance of goat through selective breeding and to demonstrate community based utilization and conservation of local breed. The community ...
Capacity to innovate from a system CGIAR research program perspective
The three system CGIAR research programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Dryland
Systems and Aquatic Agricultural Systems have included “capacity to innovate” as an intermediate
development outcome in their ...
Scientific Planning Meeting of the CGIAR Research program on Dryland Systems for the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas
Scientific Planning Meeting of the CGIAR Research program on Dryland Systems for the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas
Farmer's field day in Chakwal (introduction of cactus)
Increase resilience and improve use of marginal lands of agropastoral production systems while enhancing capacity development of farmers and extension agents through training, field days, etc.
Opportunities to reduce the vulnerability of dryland farmers in Central and West Asia and North Africa to climate change
The world’s drylands will face not only increasing temperatures with climate change but more importantly also disruptions to their hydrological cycles resulting in less and more erratic rainfall that will exacerbate the ...