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Assessing the importance of agricultural and tree biodiversity in dryland production systems
Bioversity International and partners are investigating what biodiversity is used and valued by rural households for food and agriculture in three dryland regions – W.Africa & the Sahel, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia.
Report on “Implementation of micro irrigation system in dryland system”: June 2015
The report is on the status of implementation on micro irrigation for efficient resource use
Gender dynamics in water governance institutions: the case of Gwanda's Guyu-Chelesa Irrigation Scheme in Zimbabwe
The need to incorporate women in development interventions has widely been highlighted in development literature. Despite recent attempts to include women in such efforts, the FAO's 2011 State of Agriculture Report points ...
Rangelands of Central Asia: challenges and opportunities.
Rangelands of Central Asia (referring to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in this study), the largest contiguous area of grazed land in the world, serve as an important source of livelihood ...
Place of plant genetic resources in ecological intensification and options for sustainable production by smallholder farmers in West African Sahel and dry savannas
This literature survey was conducted in the framework of the Dryland Systems CRP in 2013. This draft paper is drawn from the technical report entitled "Achigan-Dako, G. Enoch, Sogbohossou O. Deedi, Segnon C. Alcade, N’Danikou ...
Multi-purpose tree diversity and distribution assessment in Mali and Ghana, West Africa
Trees are known to play very important roles in rural households' livelihoods and resilience of the agriculture systems in the dry areas. In the framework of the Dryland Systems CRP, surveys were conducted on multipurpose ...
Capacity strengthening on improved dryland technologies
The productivity in semi-arid tropics is low not because of lack of technologies, but mainly due to lack of awareness and knowledge amongst the farmers. Any initiative on promoting improved technologies can be successful ...
Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands
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populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science
methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system
in ...
Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis
FAO has identified potato as a crop for ensuring future food security for the global poor,
particularly in the developing countries. Strength of this analysis was demonstrated in
India during 2003 and 2013 in terms of ...
Farmer's field day in Chakwal (introduction of cactus)
Increase resilience and improve use of marginal lands of agropastoral production systems while enhancing capacity development of farmers and extension agents through training, field days, etc.