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Rainfed benchmark Site selection and characterization
From these workshops and an analysis of project documentation, we can conclude that possibilities for the improvement of water use do exist. These improvements depend not only on technical aspects, but also on organization ...
Rainfed Benchmark Site Selection and Characterization
The project aims (1) to promote the adoption of technologies to increase water productivity and thus guarantee sustainable agricultural production; and (2) to transfer those technologies to other supplementary irrigated ...
Measurement and sources of technical eficiency of on-farm water use in the Sudan’s Gezira scheme
The literature identifies two common approaches for estimating technical efficiency. One approach is based on non-parametric, non-stochastic, linear programming. This suffers from the criticism that it does not take into ...
Poverty Assessment Northern Sudan (Poverty Assessment and Mapping in Sudan Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a study, presented in three reports that detail the results of a poverty
assessment and mapping project in North and Southern Sudan. The study’s objec?ve was to
produce a rural poverty analysis and poverty ...
Elements of Research Strategy and Priorities for Sustainable Agricultural Development of Highlands in Central, West Asia and North Africa
The main objectives of this report is to review the current status, constraints and potential of
highlands in Iran, Morocco and Turkey and to define elements of a research strategy and
ICARDA’s research priorities for ...
Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Small Ruminant Breeds in Libya - Field Guide. التوصيف المظهري والجزيئي لسلالات المجترات الصغيرة في ليبيا – الدليل الحقلي
The Field Guide for Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Small Ruminant Breeds in Libya is intended to support animal scientists and technicians in collecting accurate data and applying appropriate sampling procedures ...
Cactus as a Tool to Mitigate Drought and to Combat Desertification
Land degradation occurs in all continents and affects the livelihoods of millions of people, including a large proportion of
the poor in the drylands. Opuntiaficus-indica (L.) Mill. is a xerophytic cactus species, widely ...
Sustainable Agricultural Development of Highlands in Central, West Asia and North Africa
Synthesis of Regional Expert Meeting on Highland Agriculture November 2011, Karaj, Iran.
The objective of this report is to review the current status, constraints and potential of highlands in
Iran, Morocco and Turkey ...
Assessment of wheat yield gap in the Mediterranean: Case studies from Morocco, Syria, and Turkey
The WANA region has 137 million hectares of arable land of which 35 million hectares are sown to wheat, mostly grown under rainfed conditions with productivity in the range of 0.5–1.5 t/ ha. Wheat products are integral ...
Selection of benchmark research watersheds in Libya
This report describes the use of improved methodologies developed to identify suitable watersheds based on an integrated resources management concept. The approach integrates multi-disciplinary knowledge, GIS utilities, ...