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Caravan 26: Science for Food Security
This issue of Caravan illustrates this continuum approach. It describes some of ICARDA’s strategic research — the use of new tools such as GIS, molecular markers and thermographic imaging, and new
research methods in ...
Caravan 28: Research that works for people and communities
Agricultural research for development: meeting the challenge of bringing science to farmers.
This issue of Caravan looks to the field to present approaches and examples that have been developed through our research with ...
Caravan 1: Review of dryland agriculture
In this issue:
Feeding the land: how legumes can keep the soil Healthy
The plateau provinces: Sivas and Kayseri have lower yields than they should. Why? And can their small farmers survive?
Winter sowing: the answer to ...
Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources
Report on Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources
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 ...
Water and Agriculture in Egypt
The purpose of this working paper is to support the Government of Egypt’s Strategy for
Sustainable Agricultural Development towards 2030 (SADS‐2030). This strategy paper was
published in 2009 and was concerned with the ...
Rejuvenating faba bean in Egypt
Egypt’s faba bean production, which was seriously impacted by low yield, plant diseases and weed infestation as a result of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, is being rejuvenated through improved ...
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Water Management on Ecosystem Services in the Nile Delta
Egypt suffers from water scarcity and farmers are often forced to use alternative water resources
including recycled and untreated wastewater with elevated levels of non-point source pollutants.
However, continued use of ...
Seed Info No. 39
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication among seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. The purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs, and thus ...
“WP-Calc” for exploring some water productivity improvement scenarios
The aim of this study is to investigate some scenarios aiming to improve water productivity of the level of
mesqa irrigation zone at the traditional irrigated agriculture in the Nile Delta region. “WP-Calc” will be
used ...