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Mapping Desertification: Constraints and Challenges
Mapping desertification has proven to be a challenging task. Difficulties derive from its ambiguous definition
and the comprehensive integration of various biophysical and socioeconomic indicators that need to be considered
in ...
Cost of conserving genetic resources at ex Situ genebanks: an example of the ICARDA genebank
This study estimates the costs of conserving cereals (wheat and barley), forage legumes, and food legumes (chickpea, lentil, and faba bean) in the gene bank maintained by ICARDA and compares the results with those derived ...
Soils and Soil Ecology in Khorezm
The current status of the agricultural soils in Khorezm is closely linked to their development influenced by past river flows and more recent human-managed irrigation and drainage practices. The initial relief of the ...
Managing Soil Salinity in the Lower Reaches of the Amudarya Delta: How to Break the Vicious Circle
This case study focuses on the vicious circle of soil
salinization: agriculture’s consumption of large
amounts of water contributes to shallow groundwater,
leading to recurring soil salinity, which in
turn demands more ...
Lentil
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is an important cool season legume grown in Mediterranean and semiarid climates. The crop often faces terminal drought stress during the reproductive phase as a consequence of diminishing ...
ICARDA’s Network on Conservation Agriculture in Central Asia
Based on the analysis made by NARS and ICARDA, the following research priorities in the field of conservation agriculture were identified: crop diversification, including development of advanced agronomic practices; ...
Assessment of forest cover change and its environmental imacts using multi-temporal and multi-spectral satellite images
Ethiopia has a large number of species of flora and fauna in general and forest resources in particular with a significant rate of endemism. Ethiopian forest cover once was 40 per cent of the country’s land area. Reduction ...
Plant Genetic Diversity: Statistical methods for analyzing distribution and diversity of species
Availability of plant genetic diversity is fundamental to the existence of the living
planet. Conservation of biodiversity has been a practice of all concerned professions,
including farmers, since ancient times. However, ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A Promising Climate-resilience Practice for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture
Around 80 % of the world’s agricultural land is rainfed, and contributes to at least two-thirds of global food production. About 41 % of the Earth’s land area is classi- fied as dryland (ISPC 2015), wherein the farming ...
Clustering Potyviridae species on the basis of four major traits
Cluster analysis was used to examine taxonomic relationships among 31 potyviruses, using four categorical variables; genome segmentation, vector, inclusion bodies produced and host range. Analysis showed that regardless ...