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Measuring the Impacts of Conservation Tillage (CT) on Household Income and Wheat Consumption: A Syrian Case
This study aims at assessing the impacts of conservation tillage (CT) on household income and wheat consumption among Syrian farmers. Analysis is based on 621 wheat producing farmers in Syria. The propensity score-matching ...
Reliable high-throughput Phenotyping Tools to assess Adaptive Traits for Wheat in Drought Environments
This project successfully demonstrated the value of ICARDA’s elite drought nurseries for the CWANA region and highlighted the opportunity to breed for specific adaptations. The great environmental diversity of the CWANA ...
Strengthening national seed systems for household food security in developing countries
This report is a synthesis of the research and development work done in past years by ICARDA’s Seed Section of Biodiversity and Integrated Gene Management, with a number of partner countries in Africa and Asia to improve ...
ICARDA’S Genebank Resources and Activities: A Vital Tool in Ensuring a Food-Secure Future for Dryland Communities
Agrobiodiversity is one of the world’s most precious resources for ensuring food security as climate change, globally diminishing natural resource base and rapidly growing population pose an unprecedented challenge to feed ...
Seed Info No. 48
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication among seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region and beyond. Its purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs ...
IDENTIFYING SOME HERBICIDE RESISTANT GRASSES, MONITORING THEIR NATURE AND DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF ALEPPO CITY, SYRIA
It is common to say that weeds in Syria have developed resistance to herbicides, but this needs to be confirmed by research studies which are rare in the area. This study is run to describe and diagnose those weeds, and ...
Survey and biological study of Barley stem gall midge Mayetiola hordei Keiffer (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Syria.
وقد تسببت مؤخ ا رً بأض ا رر اقتصادیة هامة ج ا رء إصابة حقول الشعیر في مناطق متفرقة من سوریة. أ جري مسح حقلي شمل كافة مناطق ز ا رعة الشعیر في سوریة
خلال الموسم الز ا رعي 2011 ، كما دُ رست حیاتیة هذه الحشرة مخبریاً. أظهرت ...
Agronomic Performance and Quality Properties of Malting Barley Genotypes Assessed Rain Fed in Bekaa Province, Lebanon
The use of barley in Lebanon is still limited to feed despite the increased beer consumption and the amplified demand by local industries of imported malt. In the present work, the performance of 11 foreign malting genotypes ...
Effect of some Herbicides in Controlling Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.) and Major Weeds in Food Legumes (Chickpea, Lentil and Faba Bean).
تم د ا رسة أثر أربعة مبیدات أعشاب ضارة هي إیمازیثابیر، بیندیمیثالین، إیما ا زبیك، وأكلونیفین في مكافحة الهالوك والأعشاب الرئیسة في حقول البقولیات
الغذائیة، حیث استخدم بعضها كخلیط قبل الانبات تلتها رشة ثانیة للمبیدات المختلفة ...
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 ...