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Title: Performance of SER 45 Bushbean Variety Under Drought
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: BriefStatus: Open accessThe present work is focused on drougt tolerant beans for small-scale farmers in maize mixed farming system. SER45 is a small seeded bean variety, bred for tolerance to drought, just like SER83. High potentials have been ... -
Title: Lance Robinson on measuring resilience in drylands of East Africa
Author(s)Date: 2014-06-11Type: VideoStatus: Open accessLance Robinson, Governance and Resilience Scientist, ILRI, at the side event, “Measuring and Evaluating Resilience in Drylands of East Africa.”; IFPRI 2020 conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, ... -
Title: Zeolitic soils of the Deccan basalt areas in India: their pedology and edaphology
Author(s)Date: 2013-08-10Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessZeolites play an important role in modifying the chemis-try, physics and biology of soils. Here we review the status of the pedology and edaphology of the zeolitic soils of the Deccan basalt areas of India. Research has ... -
Title: Characterization of crop fallows for agricultural intensification, Mapping start date of the crop fallows in Eastern Gangetic plains from 2000 to 2014.
Author(s)Date: 2015-11-11Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessCharacterization of the crop fallows using remote sensing for agricultural intensification and diversification in Eastern Gangetic plains. Time series satellite data (MODIS and Landsat) were used to map the length of crop ... -
Title: Characterization of crop fallows for agricultural intensification, Mapping end date of crop fallows in Eastern Gangetic plains from 2000 to 2014.
Author(s)Date: 2015-11-11Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessCharacterization of the crop fallows using remote sensing for agricultural intensification and diversification in Eastern Gangetic plains. Time series satellite data (MODIS and Landsat) were used to map the length of crop ... -
Title: Improving seedling production for Vitex doniana
Author(s)Date: 2015-04-01Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessUniform germination is one of the important agronomic requirements for successful domestication of wildharvested economic plants. In this study we investigated the effects of storage and hydration-dehydration regimes on ... -
Title: Zeuss-Koutine watershed
Author(s)Date: 2014-11-30Type: BriefStatus: Open accessThe watershed of Zeuss-Koutine is situated in south-eastern Tunisia, north of the city of Medenine. The region has experienced increasing anthropogenic pressure since the 1960’s, resulting in environmental degradation ... -
Title: Smallholder agricultural livelihood livelihood type-specific behaviour analyses for better targeting adoption of sustainable land management: A demonstrative case analysis in Pontieba, south-western Burkina Faso
Author(s)Date: 2016-04-01Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThe support to the transition of Agricultural Livelihood System in dryland areas poses the need of better sizing actual farming system structure and functioning. This study was conducted in the frame of a research on dry ... -
Title: Shallow wells, the untapped resource with a potential to improve agriculture and food security in southern Mali
Author(s)Date: 2016-05-03Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessBackground: Excessive rainwater during the rainy season and lack of water in the dry season have been challenging the agricultural productivity and food security for rural communities in southern Mali. Various soil and ... -
Title: CRP Dryland Systems - ICRISAT - 2015 Technical and Financial Report - Final
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThe research for development efforts at DS sites in India used multi-disciplinary and systems approaches that build on the indigenous coping and adaptation strategies to achieve enhanced resilient and sustainable intensification ... -
Title: Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Improving Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-25Type: Book ChapterStatus: Limited accessHigh temperature response (HTR) or heat stress response (HSR) is a highly conserved phenomenon, which involves complex networks among different crop species. Heat stress usually results in protein dysfunction by improper ... -
Title: Estimation of shrub canopy cover by digital vegetation charting technique (DVCT), Syria
Author(s)Date: 2019-12-31Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessThe shrub fodder component should be measured to avoid underestimation of the carrying capacity of rangelands. In this study, we present a fast, reliable and non-destructive method to estimate canopy vegetation cover to ... -
Title: The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Biomass Rehabilitation in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017
Author(s)Date: 2017-12-12Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessField visits were carried out during March 2017 and allowed to identify and classify the sites subjected to rest according to the land tenure system and age of the implementation of the technique. During these visits, the ... -
Title: The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Density in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017
Author(s)Date: 2017-12-12Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessIn southern Tunisia, rangelands are overexploited because the animal needs highly exceed plant production. For most of the skeletal desert soil, the overall vegetation covering oscillates between 1 and 10%; the perennial ... -
Title: Agricultural water productivity for rainfed areas in 2008
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessAgricultural Water Productivity (WPM) (kg/m3) was determined for each pixel by dividing crop productivity (kg/ha) raster layer by seasonal crop water use in terms of actual evapotranspiration (m3/ha) raster layer.The WPM ... -
Title: Agricultural water productivity for rainfed areas in 2002
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessAgricultural Water Productivity (WPM) (kg/m3) was determined for each pixel by dividing crop productivity (kg/ha) raster layer by seasonal crop water use in terms of actual evapotranspiration (m3/ha) raster layer.The WPM ... -
Title: Agricultural water productivity for irrigated areas in 2006
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessAgricultural Water Productivity (WPM) (kg/m3) was determined for each pixel by dividing crop productivity (kg/ha) raster layer by seasonal crop water use in terms of actual evapotranspiration (m3/ha) raster layer.The WPM ... -
Title: Crop yield of rainfed areas in 2002
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: MapStatus: Limited accessCrop yield layer where derived from MODIS gross primary productivity (GPP) layer as a production efficiency model approach that estimates crop growth from intercepted photo synthetically active radiation and light use ... -
Title: Map of irrigated areas in 2017
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: MapStatus: Limited accessIWMI’s global irrigated and rainfed area maps (GIAM and GMRCA, Biradar et al., 2009, Thenkabail et al., 2009) have ben merge with released irrigated area maps accessible online; http://waterdata.iwmi.org/applications/irri_area/to ... -
Title: Map of rainfed areas in 2017
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: MapStatus: Limited accessIWMI’s global irrigated and rainfed area maps (GIAM and GMRCA, Biradar et al., 2009, Thenkabail et al., 2009) have ben merge with released irrigated area maps accessible online; http://waterdata.iwmi.org/applications/irri_area/to ...