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Spineless cactus in the Arabian Peninsula: adaptive behaviors and production performances
Limited water resources are the main challenge facing agricultural developments in dry areas. Thus improving the crops water use efficiency (WUE) is considered the greatest one. In an attempt to alleviate feed shortages ...
Grassland/rangelands based livestock production systems: Options and trade-offs between productivity and GHG emissions reductions
The global warming is expected to further contribute to the process of rangeland degradation as a result of mis-management and may have significant adverse impacts on range species under high CO2 emissions scenarios. Already ...
Estimating rangeland carrying capacity using crowd-sourcing and VegMeasure under Covid-19
Congress Proceeding: Grassland Society of Southern Africa 55th Annual Congress (virtual Congress) Jun 30- Jul 02, 2020 about estimating rangeland carrying capacity at Al Majydia site using crowd-sourcing and VegMeasure ...
Impact of aspect on vegetation characteristics in the mountain grasslands of Tajikistan
Congress Proceeding: Grassland Society of Southern Africa 55th Annual Congress (virtual Congress) Jun 30- Jul 02, 2020 about the impact of aspect on vegetation characteristics in the mountain grasslands of Tajikistan
Morphological characterization of cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) accessions from the collection held at Agadir, Morocco
The North Africa region falls under arid and semi-arid climate and it is considered as a hot spot for climate change. To face feed shortage, increase income of the rural poor and to mitigate the effect of climate change, ...
Assessment of different supplemental feeding strategies including cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) for higher sheep productivity in Chakwal, Pakistan
Small ruminant production remains the main source of income of rural population living in arid and semi-arid regions of Pakistan. Sheep and goats raised in these areas are generally confronted with severe nutritional ...
Developing a toolbox for rangeland restoration/rehabilitation in arid environments
Rangelands are recognized for their importance and value in providing society with valuable products and ecosystem services. In such ecosystems, effective management is needed for sustainable plant growth and survival in ...
Response of arid rangelands to deferred grazing in Southern Tunisia
Rangelands in north Africa and the near east in general provide numerous goods and services that have great economic, social, cultural, and biological values. For centuries, inhabitants of rangelands have engineered pastoral ...
Effect of seeding rate on the yield of legume-cereal bi-crops in rainfed production systems of Afghanistan
A two-year study (2016-2017) investigated the effect of seeding rate on forage production of monocultures and binary mixtures of barley (Hordeum vulgare), triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack), lathyrus (Lathyrus sativus), ...
Effet de la méthode artisanale d’extraction sur les caractéristiques chimiques de l’huile végétale de lentisque pistachier du nord de la Tunisia (Pistacia lentiscus L.)
Huile végétale, lentisque pistachier, caractérisation physique, analyses chimiques Ce travail a été mené dans le cadre de la caractérisation de l’huile végétale de lentisque pistachier. Une caractérisation chimique des ...