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A new pastoral code for Tunisia: Reversing degradation across the country’s critical rangelands
In response to the severe economic, social, and environmental costs of degradation across Tunisia’s rangelands, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has worked with the General ...
Gender, livestock rearing, rangeland use, and climate change adaptation in Tunisia
Women’s contributions to rangeland cultivation and management in Tunisia, and the effects of climate change upon women’s livelihoods, are both policy blind spots. Despite women’s growing participation in rangeland management, ...
Simple smokers to improve traditional dairy products
Smoking of milk utensils is a crucial traditional practice to develop the product’s desired organoleptic characteristics. Fumigation also assures quality and safety of milk and dairy products. Traditional fumigation often ...
Managing rangelands: promoting native shrub species: Bassia prostrata (L.): A resilient drought and salt tolerant shrub use for rangeland improvement and for provision of quality fodder for livestock
Arid and semi-arid rangelands face increasing climate variability and grazing pressure as the world’s demand for food increases. ICARDA is introducing drought tolerant species as a crucial means of assisting rangeland ...
Permaculture Design and Business Plan for Sustainable Livelihoods Programming: Low-Cost, Sustainable Solutions for Food and Nutrition Insecure Agro Pastoral Communities: Permaculture as a development tool to managing dry land resources
This fact sheet provides an overview of permaculture programming as a response to food and nutrition insecurity for agropastoral communities. It emphasizes the role of permaculture as a sustainable, non-donor dependent ...
Managing agrosilvopastoral systems: understanding ecological and medicinal importance of indicator species; Artemisia campestris L.: ecologically important with allelopathic and antifungal constituents
Factsheet about Artemisia campestris description, benefits, distribution, establishment and effective management and nutritional composition
Managing agrosilvopastoral systems: promoting shrub legume species; Medicago arborea L.: is an important perennial woody leguminous shrub with great forage and nitrogen-fixing potential
Factsheet about Medicago arborea description, environmental benefits, distribution, effective management and feeding value
Dietary change in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa: historical changes and future food consumption perspectives
The objective of this brief is to provide an outlook on historical dietary changes and future trends of diets by 2050 in selected Asian, SSA, and MENA countries. The study further focuses on the anticipated importance of ...
DIRECT SEEDING: a fast and cost-effective method for large-scale restoration of degraded rangelands
Brief about the key advantages of direct seeding, methods of direct seeding and recommendation for effective establishment and maintenance.
Milk fat separation to accelerate butter production and reduce labour
Milk fat separation increases the efficiency of butter processing with enhanced quality. Milk fat separation will increase the milk returns through processing high value products from the skimmed milk. The separation of ...