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The Economics of Land Degradation in Africa_Benefits of Action Outweigh the Costs_A complementary report to the ELD Initiative
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to ...
Gender and Irrigation: Its Implications on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification. The Case of Ntcheu District of Malawi
Efforts have been made to intensify crop production through various technologies including irrigation schemes practices in Southern Africa as in other developing countries, however less focus have been placed on the extent ...
Ethiopia Case Study_ Soil Degradation and Sustainable Land Management in the Rainfed Agricultural Areas of Ethiopia: An Assessment of the Economic Implications
Soil erosion and deposition values were estimated using pixel based landscape information and the Unit Stream Power Erosion Deposition (USPED) model, which works with the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) parameters. The ...
Development of a pilot composite index using data from the IGAD region
This
report details one methodology that the TC has piloted to try to respond to this
challenge. The TC has formulated composite indices from weighted resilience
indicators and this brief summarises process of development ...
Effect of best-bet sustainable land management technologies of minimum till, agroforestry shrubs and box ridges on yield of maize (SC403) in Nsipe, Malawi
Food insecurity is a serious challenge to most of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this region, production levels of small-scale farmers, who contribute a significant proportion of the maize produced, has been far much ...
The potential of replacing conventional dairy supplements with forage legumebased diets in Zimbabwe’s smallholder dairy sector
The main objective of this study is to
determine the
effect of replacing
commercial diets with
forage legume diets on
VFI, milk yield, quality and
economic returns.
Final report on collaboration agreement between ICARDA and CSIC on sediment tracers
The understanding of water erosion processes is essential when predicting the effects of soil
conservation structures aimed to disrupt connectivity in runoff and sediment transport across
the landscape. Experiments (field ...
Farming household types and their characterization in complex crop-livestock smallholder agricultural systems for contextual analysis and extension intervention: case of Riviridzi Catchment in Ntcheu
Farming household types and their characterization in complex crop-livestock smallholder agricultural systems for contextual analysis and extension intervention: case of Riviridzi Catchment in Ntcheu
Farmer Perceptions on Optimization of Tree Cover in Agroforestry Landscapes in the Central Rift-Valley of Ethiopia
This study revealed that farmers in the region want to have more trees both on their farm lands and homesteads than what they have currently. However, this study also clearly showed differences in the two sexes in terms ...
Climate Change Scenario Modeling using Soil and Water Assessment Tool. Training report
The workshop ‘Climate Change Scenario Modeling using Soil and Water Assessment Tool’ was held
from 5th to 7th of May 2015 at Icarda office in Amman, Jordan, as part of the activities carried out
by the CGIAR Research Program ...