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Soil Salinity Mapping by Multiscale Remote Sensing in Mesopotamia, Iraq
Soil salinity has become one of the major problems affecting crop production and food security in Mesopotamia, Iraq. There is a pressing need to quantify and map the spatial extent and distribution of salinity in the country ...
Agricultural water productivity for rainfed areas in 2002
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 ...
Socio Economic and Environmental Impact of Salinity on Livelihoods, 14–18 December 2014
Water is the major limiting factor for agricultural production in the dry areas of Central and
West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). Agriculture accounts for around 80% of water
consumption in the region, however, the rapidly ...
Agricultural water productivity Hotspots of irrigated areas in 2008
The Hot spots of high and low water productivity was done by classifying the biophysical agricultural water productivity (kg/m3) layer into three classes: (i) High water productivity which includes values exceeding 1.0 ...
Strengthening the Capacity of Iraq’s Agricultural Sector
Review of the progress and achievements in Capacity Building HSAD - Iraq program . Harmonized Support for Agriculture Development 2013-2014.
The project is a research for development initiative that aims to improve the ...
Managing Salinity in Iraq's Agriculture: Potential Solutions & Interventions
This report is the second in a series of three publications that comprises an overview of the Iraq Salinity Assessment. This report documents solutions and impacts identified in the first report in this series. The third ...
Food security in changing Arab environment
The Arab region has the largest food deficit in the world, due to the strained natural resource base and vulnerabilities to climate change implications, which put tremendous pressure on achieving food security. During the ...
Conservation Agriculture Holds Considerable Promise to Help Agricultural Livelihood Systems Coping with Climate Change: ICARDA’s Experience
Around one-third of the global population depends on dryland
agriculture for food security and livelihoods. In addition to common
challenges (such as natural resources degradation, poverty), climate
change is exacerbating ...
The Relationship between Groundwater Levels, Groundwater Salinity and Irrigation Activity
A crucial part of this initiative is to provide information on current status of groundwater levels,
groundwater salinity, irrigation practices, and optimal groundwater table depth to assess their impact
on crop production. ...
Assessment of the Current Status of Irrigation Activity and Drainage Infrastructure in Iraq
This technical report assesses the current state of the irrigation and drainage in the Babil and Wasit provinces in central Iraq. It describes and documents the irrigation activity and drainage infrastructure in two selected ...