Una varietà di grano duro resistente alle alte temperature per sfamare milioni di persone, a cominciare da quelle che vivono nel bacino del fiume Senegal fino ad arrivare, in prospettiva, a tutte quelle africane colpite ...

The aim of the project is to develop and implement a web-based GIS tool for defining sustainable land management (SLM) options by social-ecological context at global scale. This Global Geo-informatics Context and Options ...

Intervention at the 4th International Symposium on Mediterranean Vineyards and Climate Change, 12-14 May 2017, Santorini, Greece.

The Hot spots of high and low water productivity was done by classifying the biophysical agricultural water productivity (kg/m3) layer into three classes: (i) High water productivity which includes values exceeding 1.0 ...

Improving faba bean for sustainable agriculture in dry ares, presentation at the "Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology" held in Valencia on 11-13 September 2017.

Many efforts have been invested in the Dry Areas to combat land degradation and desertification. Different strategies and approaches for conserving soil and water and restoring degraded lands have been developed by local, ...

Sunn pest (Eurygaster integriceps Puton) is currently widely distributed in West and Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but has not been found in Australia, Western Europe or North America. Climate warming is known to promote ...

Evapotranspiration was determined using the methodology proposed by USGS’s Simplified Surface Energy Balance. The Actual Evapotranspiration (AET, mm) estimation was done using MODIS 1km (thermal infrared band resolution) ...

Saharan oases can be highly artificial ecosystems, capable of sustaining agriculture under arid climatic conditions; the traditional system requires some degree of collective management for plants, soil and water but has ...

Alley cropping, an agroforestry system, comprises rows of perennial shrubs or trees bordering the alleys of grasses/crops. An appropriately chosen alley cropping provides improvement in feeds for small ruminants, food ...