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

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, ...

Review Panel of the Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) on Social, Economic and Policy Research across ICARDA and ICARDA'S response to the panel

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 ...

Maintenance of soil carbon stocks is vital for the environment at large and for maintenance of soil chemical, physical and biological fertility. Tonga represents a country in agricultural transition from subsistence to ...

Numerous soil erosion models compute concentrated flow hydraulics based on the Manning–Strickler equation (v = kSt R2/3 I1/2) even though the range of the application on rill flow is unclear. Unconfined rill morphologies generate ...

Agriculture is a critical sector of the Indian economy. Though agriculture's contribution to the overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country has fallen from about 30% in 199091 to <15 % in 201112, agriculture yet ...

The presentation in collaboration with Nadira Al Jawhari (NCARE) outlines research that takes a systems approach to examine the interplay of livestock production (an activity in which women contribute the majority of the ...

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This paper has assessed the impact of high-yielding short-duration pearl-millet hybrid on farmers’ income in the arid region of Rajasthan. The decomposition of total change in net returns has shown that adoption of modern ...