The Communities of Practice aim to foster relationships, develop learning situated in practice, and create and share new knowledge to restore degraded land. The goal of the project is to reduce food insecurity and improve ...

The author compares different types of technologies ( Technologies supported with formal seed system - Technologies with more informal seed system - Technologies targeted for domestic industry and export market - Pest ...

Presentation of Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa

Agriculture is considered as one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. Especially in Africa, this process is driven by smallscale agriculture. Agricultural intensification is widely proposed as measure to reduce ...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the adaptability and productivity of different vetch species under the ecological conditions of Gumara­ Maksegnit watershed in the year 2012. Five vetch species (Vicia dasycarpa, ...

Maternal season defined, as the prevailing environmental conditions during crop growth has been known to influence not only grain yield but also seed quality. A laboratory and field experiment were conducted in October ...

High temperatures and decreased rainfall are detrimental to yield in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), particularly during grain filling. This study aimed to (i) assess the individual and combined effects of drought and heat ...

The present situation in North Gondar Zone indicates that, there are limited Capsicum species and varieties including both improved and the local ones. As a result, varietal information for the improvement of the crop for ...

This issue of Caravan illustrates this continuum approach. It describes some of ICARDA’s strategic research — the use of new tools such as GIS, molecular markers and thermographic imaging, and new research methods in ...

Farmer field days at the action site