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Practical Guide to Conservation Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa
Conservation agriculture (CA) is a new method of agricultural production that is more productive and environmentally friendly than the common form of agriculture based on plowing and intensive soil tillage. However, adopting ...
Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world’s first insurance for African pastoralists
This sample size was distributed across the 16 sub-locations in Marsabit on the basis proportional allocation using
the 1999 household population census statistics. There were only two exceptions to this rule: a minimum ...
Varietal Adoption, Outcomes and Impact
This chapter focuses on the adoption and turnover of cultivars of crops, such as soyabean, maize, pigeon pea, wheat, cassava, rice, potato, barley, yam, groundnut, bean, sorghum, cowpea, pearl millet, chickpea, faba bean, ...
Mapping climate change in Iraq and Jordan
This working paper provides a synthesis of the climate change assessment studies undertaken in Iraq and Jordan in the context of the IFAD-funded and ICARDA-implemented Project ‘Improving food security and climate change ...
Apports des typologies d'exploitations aux démarches de conception en agriculture de conservation : une étude de cas dans le nord du Vietnam
Dans deux districts montagneux du nord du Vietnam, l'agriculture de conservation (AC) est envisagée pour réduire l'impact environnemental de la culture de maïs sur pente. Dans ce contexte, notre étude vise l'élaboration ...
Varietal Generation and Output
This chapter focuses on the improved cultivar generation of various crops (maize, cassava, rice, bean, potato, cowpea, wheat, soyabean, sweet potato, yam, sorghum, groundnut, banana, chickpea, pigeon pea, barley, pearl ...
Searching for adaptive traits in genetic resources – phenology based approach
Phenology is an important plant trait not only for assessing and forecasting food production but also for
searching in genebanks for adaptive traits. Among the phenological parameters we have been considering to
search for ...
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.
Promoting Silvi-pasture on Private Farms in Rajasthan ( CAZRI Scientific Staff): Adoptability Report
This is an ADOPT report on Cenchrus Setigerus and Lasiurus Lirsutus grasses in Rajasthan India generated by the Indian NARS, CAZRI.