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Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Cactus Pear Accessions from Mediterranean and Brazil Collections
Around 2.5 billion people – 30 percent of the world’s population – live in the dry areas, which cover more than 40 percent of the world’s land surface. Scarce natural resources, land degradation and frequent droughts ...
Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners
Restoration efforts in the Mediterranean Basin have been changing from a silvicultural to an ecological restoration
approach. Yet, to what extent the projects are guided by ecological restoration principles remains ...
Farmer-led approaches to drylands farming: crop - livestock conservation agriculture
The video depicts a successful story of crop-livestock integration in areas with scarce natural resources and land degradation such as Tajikistan, Tunisia and Algeria. While zero till seeding is an efficient technique to ...
Approaches and Strategies for sustainable wheat production
This handbook provides practical information on wheat production. It aims to inform the work of policy makers, agriculture agencies, extension agents, non-governmental organizations, universities and research organizations, ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A Promising Climate-resilience Practice for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture
Around 80 % of the world’s agricultural land is rainfed, and contributes to at least two-thirds of global food production. About 41 % of the Earth’s land area is classi- fied as dryland (ISPC 2015), wherein the farming ...
ICARDA Efforts to Promote In Situ/On-farm Conservation of Dryland Agrobiodiversity
Dryland biodiversity has only recently got due attention because of its potential to contribute in overcoming the effects of global challenges caused by land degradation and and climate change (FAO, 1989). More particularly, ...
Geoinformatics for nourishing drylands
At a global perspective drylands :
- Cover 41 percent of the Earth’s surface
- Support 30 percent of the world’s population
- Support 50 percent of the world’s livestock
- Grow 44 percent of the world’s food
- Are home to ...
Adoption Perspectives of Direct Seeding in the High Plains of Sétif - Algeria
This study aims to analyze the adoption perspectives of the Conservation Agriculture (CA) through the
recognition of the cautions and advantages of cereal Direct Seeding (DS) in semiarid high plains of Sétif
(Algeria). A ...