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ICARDA in the News 1990
This collection of news was made from the sources available to the Communication, Documentation & information services and is not intended to be a complete record of all media coverage of ICARDA's work.
Status of On-farm Agrobiodiversity and Rural Livelihoods in Dry Areas
Presentation prepared based on Impact of Dryland Agrobiodiversity survey for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity Project
Water Harvesting: Indigenous Knowledge for the future of the Drier Environments
This publication distils the knowledge and experience of water harvesting gained by ICARDA, national research groups, and advanced institutions over the years and presents them in a non-technical language
Effect of supplementary irrigation during reproductive growth on winter and spring chickpea (Cicer arietinum) in a Mediterranean environment
Inadequate soil moisture is one of the main constraints on the productivity of chickpea in the rainfed farming systems of the dry areas in West Asia and North Africa. The response to irrigation at flowering and pod filling ...
Conservation Agriculture In Dry Areas Preface
Conservation agriculture in dry areas
Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary
Dromedaries have been fundamental to the development of human societies in arid landscapes and for long-distance trade across hostile hot terrains for 3,000 y. Today they continue to be an important livestock resource in ...
Cereal Improvement in Dry Areas: Cooperative Cereal Improvement in Tunisia (1980-1985)
This document highlights ICARDA's impact in Tunisia since the inception of the Tunisia- ICARDA collaborative project on cereal improvement in 1980. It also reflects the coherent relationship between ICARDA and the Tunisian ...
Trends in Small Ruminant Meat Production–Consumption Gaps in West Asia and North Africa: Implications for Intra-Regional Trade
This paper examines past trends in the small ruminant sector in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region; it explains the main driving forces of these trends and their implications for the livelihoods of the poor; and ...
Challenges and opportunities of soil conservation and land management in the dry areas
Land degradation is a serious problem, particularly on vulnerable agricultural lands to soil erosion, which
signifies the temporary or permanent decline in the productive capacity of the land (UN/FAO definition).
Erosion ...
Adoption of Fertilizer Use on Barley in Northern Syria
Questionnaire used for Effect of Fertilizer Use on Barley in Syria survey of Fertilizer Use on Rainfed Barley project.