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Enhancing Food Security in Arab Countries
A research for development initiative working across ten countries to raise wheat production and reduce the Arab World’s growing dependence on costly wheat imports.
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 ...
Performance evaluation of ground water management instruments: The case of irrigation sector in Tunisia
Around 27% of aquifers in Tunisia are being overexploited. Groundwater extractions is mainly for the irrigation sector, where more than 40% of the water used for irrigation comes from GW sources. The objective of this study ...
Understanding Farmers’ Adaptation to Water Scarcity: A Case Study from the Western Nile Delta, Egypt
This research study analyzes how farmers adapt to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt (al-Bayda Canal). The results of the study show that farmers use several methods to adapt ...
Comprehensive assessment and sustainable use of treated sanitary sewage in irrigation - A case study, Egypt
The main purpose of this study was to focus on the reuse of TWW for agricultural purposes. The study presents the current and the potential use of wastewater for irrigation and the related guidelines and laws regulating ...
Management of water and salinity in the Nile Delta: A cross-scale integrated analysis of efficiency and equity issues
The overall aim of the project is to identify physical and institutional interventions to improve water management using an integrated approach across scales (from farm to main canal levels) and encompassing water ...
Experimental results on land and water productivity in rainfed areas in Morocco
The dataset contains the result of a series of experiments conducted in Morocco between 2014 and 2015, about land and water productivity.
Caravan 24: Review of agriculture in the dry areas
Articles in this issue describe how value-addition options were identified for herbal and medicinal plants in a remote valley in Morocco; how cactus species – that combine hardiness with high market value – are being ...
Caravan 26: Science for Food Security
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 ...
Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources
Report on Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources