Saharan oases can be highly artificial ecosystems, capable of sustaining agriculture under arid climatic conditions; the traditional system requires some degree of collective management for plants, soil and water but has ...

Climate change is one of the major challenges for agricultural producers worldwide. In Central Asian countries, climate-driven irrigation water variability is a major source of risk. Future projections indicate even ...

The increasing water demand over recent decades together with the climate change impacts on water resources lead to a growing shortage of water availability. Investigating and developing novel strategies to assess and ...

Achieving efficiency in large and complex research for development programs (R4D) is a significant challenge. In 2015, as a response to the lack of a shared monitoring and evaluation system for CGIAR Research Programs ...