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The Last Wall Against Desertification
This video is about building resilience for smallholder farmers in Marginal Drylands.
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 ...
Introducing the MENA Initiative: A multi-partner enterprise transforming rural livelihoods through sustainable agricultural development in Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
Invitation to join the "From Farms to Markets: Innovative agri-based value chains: new streams of income for women and youth" session during the COP22 Marrakech Climate Change Conference.
Developing new wheat varieties tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses to improve food security under climate change in Central Asia
Presentation on "Developing new wheat varieties tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses to improve food security under climate change in Central Asia"
Measuring climate change impacts on farm income in Central Asia
Despite serious influences of climate change on food security and farm income, there is insufficient research in Central Asia on the impact of climate change on agro-ecosystems, farm incomes, and analysis of the potential ...
Suitability and Identification of Pulses in Cropping Systems for Nutritional Security, Better Livelihood and Mitigation for Climate Change: Need for on-farm experimentation and minimum datasets for modelling for out-scaling of the production system
The presentation introduced the following aspects: understanding the “state-of-the-art” on pulses in each Region in terms of opportunities and challenges, including existing policy environment; finalization on common ...
Ties that Bind: ICARDA in the Arabian Peninsula. Twenty years of collaboration in scientific agricul tural research for development between the National Agricultural Research Systems of Arabian Peninsula countries and ICARDA
The Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP) of ICARDA serves the seven countries of the Arabian Peninsula, namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the Republic ...
Pigeonpea breeding in eastern and southern Africa: challenges and opportunities
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan [L.] Millspaugh) is an important multipurpose grain legume crop primarily grown in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In Africa, the crop is grown for several purposes ...
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 ...
Index-based insurance for climate risk management and rural development in Syria
Improving the adaptive capacity of rural producers to climate and weather risks may become an urgent issue in the early stages
of political stabilization in Syria. Therefore, this study analyses the agro-ecological, economic ...