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 ...

Context: Recent conceptual developments in ecosystem services research have revealed the need to elucidate the complex and unintended relationships between humans and the environment if we are to better understand and ...

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 ...

A report of trip to Hyderabad and New Delhi, 19 November – 27 December 2016 for ISAS Conference and Biometrics and Statistics Support to SA&C RP and Afghanistan Projects

Training Material of a two days Training on Rangeland Governance designed for Tunisian Governmental Forest Officers

This report summarizes the work done during 2017 to review the relevant policies, programs, and interventions implemented during the recent decades in Badia, as part of Activity A6.

Wheat pests are the subject of this chapter and the previous one. There are four major taxa of wheat pests. Rodents and nematodes were discussed in the previous chapter. Insects and mites are discussed in this chapter. ...

Presentation on the Statistic Summaries of SLM Options by Context in the WebGIS sub-tool of Geoinformatics Options by Contexts (GeOC).

Agricultural Water Productivity (WPM) (kg/m3) was determined for each pixel by dividing crop productivity (kg/ha) raster layer by seasonal crop water use in terms of actual evapotranspiration (m3/ha) raster layer.The WPM ...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is an important cool season legume grown in Mediterranean and semiarid climates. The crop often faces terminal drought stress during the reproductive phase as a consequence of diminishing ...