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Effect of combined deficit irrigation and grass competition at plantation on peach tree root distribution
Agroforestry systems success is predicated on the assumption of root spatial separation between the tree and the crop species. Such a feature, where tree roots prospect subsoil horizons whereas intercrop roots prospect top ...
Detection of significant new races of the wheat stem rust pathogen in Africa and Middle East
Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) is a destructive disease on bread and durum wheat. Following the identification and distribution of Ug99, major national and international efforts have been made ...
Ties that Bind: Germany and ICARDA
Germany possesses one of the world’s leading industrialized economies and has for many years been actively funding overseas development projects through the annual allocation of many millions of Deutschmarks.
Like all ...
Optimal Scales of Neighbourhood Effects on Landuse Change: An Analysis Procedure Applied in an Alpine Mountainous Region
Neighbourhood effects on land use change are very common. Therefore, they are often
included in spatially explicit models of land use change and other spatial analyses. Neighbourhood
indices, however, depend strongly on ...
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Agricultural Crops
There are now over 40 years of research in hyperspectral remote sensing (or imaging spectroscopy) of vegetation and agricultural crops
(Thenkabail et al., 2011a). Even though much of the early research in hyperspectral ...
Ties that Bind: France and ICARDA
The government of France and a number of French research organizations have supported ICARDA’s work for more than 30 years. This support has helped to significantly improve farm productivity, incomes and livelihoods in dry ...
Ties that Bind: The Netherlands and ICARDA
The Netherlands is one of the few developed countries that have been consistent in supporting development cooperation at levels agreed by the UN and OECD. Every year the country allocates
0.8% of its GNP to poverty reduction ...
Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models
The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few years. There are now a sufficient number of models that it is worth ...