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Methodological Abilities of Integrated Models to Support Agricultural Landscape Resilience: Current Status and Research Perspectives
It is important to increase the resilience of rural landscapes in the face of global changes. It
is widely recognized that integrated modeling is often a methodological choice to study landscape
resilience because the task ...
Assessing the Financial and Economic Viability of Water User Associations and Canal Management Organizations in Ferghana Valley countries of Central Asia
The financial viability of a water user association is fundamentally dependent on the
financial viability of the irrigated agriculture it supports. The mission of a water user
association might be described as securing a ...
Poverty and Olive Oil: Options for Inclusive Development in Southern Tunisia
Tunisia is the third largest exporter of olive oil globally, with export earnings accounting for approximately
half of the value of all agricultural exports for the republic. Predominantly mixed and marketed under
Spanish ...
Biophysical and Econometric analysis of adoption of soil and water conservation techniques in the semiarid region of Sidi Bouzid (Central Tunisia)
Synthesis Paper prepared to be presented as an oral presentation at the 5th EUROSOIL International Congress (http://www.eurosoil2016istanbul.org/themes-and-topics/) Istanbul 2016 - 17-22 July, 2016 – Istanbul – Turkey
Land ...
Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems
Soil indicators may be used for assessing both land suitability for restoration and the effectiveness of restoration
strategies in restoring ecosystem functioning and services. In this review paper, several soil indicators, ...
Inter‐annual Declines of Terrestrial Net Primary Production and Carbon Use Efficiency: Global Patterns and Hotspots over 2000 ‐ 2014
Terrestrial net primary production (NPP) generates products of biological origin, on which much of other ecosystem services depend. The primary production provides a basis for food production, biogeochemical cycles, carbon ...
Integrated ecosystems approach for sustainable intensification of community based silvopatoral systems in arid western Rajasthan, India: implications for upscaling
The common pastures in arid Rajasthan, India though are critically important for sustaining livestock dominant smallholder rural livelihoods and ecosystems services, but have been severely degraded due to several factors. ...
Socio-ecological Context Typology to Support Targeting and Upscaling of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Diverse Global Dryland
It is widely recognized that sustainable land management practices (SLM) are much
needed for improving land-based livelihoods of 2.5 billion people living in the dry areas across the
globe. Adoption and effectiveness of ...
Exacerbated degradation and desertification of grassland in Central Asia
Grassland desertification is a complex process, including both state conversion (e.g., grasslands to deserts) and
gradual within-state change (e.g., greenness dynamics). Existing studies generally did not separate the ...
Screening for Cold Tolerant Cactus Species (Opuntia ficus-indica) for West Asia Region
The identification of the cold tolerant Opuntia species to increase their
cultivation in West Asia region where the cold winter conditions limit their
adaptation is the primary yet the most critical step. The International ...