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Fodder seeds: empowering women and closing gaps in Afghanistan
This Blog summarizes the training workshop on plant propagation, nursery management, pasture production and enterprise development, and defines the role of gender in forage value chain in Afghanistan. The workshop was held ...
Maintaining production in water-scarce environments
Can conservation agriculture deliver for farmers across the Arab World?
Reversing the Degradation of Jordan's 'Badia'
This blog talks about work on the OFID project. It was not a planned deliverable.
FAO/ICARDA webinars on measuring evapotranspiration - now open
The webinars cover a number of evapotranspiration measurement themes including underlining the time and space scale of measurement applications and analyzing their accuracy and suitability for use in arid and semi-arid ...
Turning the tide on drought in Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco
The blog is about the work of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), CGIAR, and its many Research Centers towards scaling up the deployment of water-smart agricultural solutions to slow the march of land ...
Key takeaways from IWMI’s participation at the first-ever MENA Climate Week
The blog is on the Q&A discussion by Vidhisha Samarasekara, IWMI’s Strategic Program Director for Water, Climate Change, and Resilience, at the MENA Climate Week. In this Q&A, she discusses the conference’s influence in ...
Cactus pear evaluation & best-agronomic practices
blog to highlight the event of international training course on "Cactus pear evaluation & best-agronomic practices" The course topics included lectures on the environmental requirements of cactus and agricultural treatments, ...
Ultrasound diagnosis as low-tech tool for sheep and goat production systems
Productivity and profitability of meat and milk production from small ruminants are geared by reproductive performance. Ultrasound machines may not seem to fit with preconceived ideas for use in extensive, low input systems, ...
How does local biodiversity respond to human pressures?
The database focuses on land use, it also includes data from regions that have so far seen relatively little land-use change, such as some high biodiversity wilderness areas like Amazonia, Congo forests, and North American ...
Strengthening informal seed networks
How can we strengthen seed systems to achieve food security and better protection from epidemics and disease?