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Measurement of Total Factor Productivity and its Determinants: Case of Wheat Sector in Tunisia
The main objectives of this study are to quantify the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth
of the durum wheat sector in Tunisia and to identify its main determinants. The Malmquist
index approach was applied for the ...
Database of climate, crop soil and management as required to calibrate and validate the models
The database consists of data on soil properties of both on station and 20 farmer fields, household characteristics of 301 households, woreda level crop production statistics for the past 5 years, land use maps and data ...
Genetic Diversity Analysis for Earliness, Fiber Quality and Cotton Leaf Curl Virus in Gossypium hirsutum L. Accessions.
In the present set of experiment 159 cotton genotypes that were imported from USA were evaluated for cotton leaf curl
virus disease tolerance, better fiber quality and various yield related traits. For evaluation of these ...
ICRAF-DS Annual Report 2015
In 2015 ICRAF undertook drylands research in two transects of the West African Sahel (WAS) and the Ethiopian action site in East and Southern Africa (ESA). The research was supported through 0.7 million USD of W1/2 funding ...
Gender & Systems Presentation, Part 2
Presentation for training and discussion at a Training for gender-responsive agent-based systems modeling in Cairo, September 2015
Socio-ecological Informatics Platform for Global Agri-food Systems Sustainability: Connecting Big Data, Systems Thinking, International Community of Practice to Big System Image
An Express of Interest (EoI) aims at developing and using an agri-food system informatics (hereafter referred as agro-informatics) platform that promotes geo-informatics, interdisciplinary interoperability of multidimensional ...
Quantification of Risk Associated with Technology Adoption in Dryland Systems of South Asia
Climate change increasingly becomes a challenge for smallholder farmers. Strategies that will
help farmers to cope with vulnerability are important. These strategies comprise a variety of
interventions ranging from technical, ...
Manual on Climate Change. Downloading prognostic meteorological information from Earth System Grid Federation (RU)
Despite the increasing use of regional climate model (RCM) simulations in climate-change impact studies, their application is challenging due to the risk of considerable biases (Teutschbein and Seibert, 2012). To deal with ...
Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe
In complex mixed crop-livestock systems with limited resources and biomass scarcity, crop residues play an important but increasingly contested role. This paper focuses on farming systems in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe, ...
Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists
Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent
poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the ...