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Impacts of Public, Private, and R&D Investments on Total Factor Productivity Growth in Tunisian Agriculture
The paper analyzes the patterns of productivity and economic growth in Tunisian agriculture during the period 1981–2007. A regression approach is used to test the hypotheses that government-funded research, development and ...
Cactus Crop (Opuntia Ficus-Indica) to Rehabilitate Rangelands in Semi-Arid Regions of Tunisia
The area of rangelands in Tunisia is estimated at 4.5 million hectares, or 27.4% of the total area of the country. Currently rangelands contribute 10 to 25% of livestock feed requirements, compared to 65% in the sixties, ...
Biophysical and Econometric analysis of adoption of soil and water conservation techniques in the semiarid region of Sidi Bouzid (Central Tunisia)
Synthesis Paper prepared to be presented as an oral presentation at the 5th EUROSOIL International Congress (http://www.eurosoil2016istanbul.org/themes-and-topics/) Istanbul 2016 - 17-22 July, 2016 – Istanbul – Turkey
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User-friendly and Integrated Simulation Tool for Support Sustainable Land Management Planning in Tunisian Landscape. Working paper (accepted for the Springer Nature
Sustainable land management (SLM) at scale is essential for achieving land degradation neutrality and improving agricultural livelihoods. In practice, promoting SLM at watershed scale faces many decision-making problems ...
Efficiency of Crop–Livestock Production Systems Under Conservation Agriculture: Scope for sustainable system transformation to Achieving Food Security in Rain-Fed Drylands of Tunisia
The objective of this study is to evaluate the technical efficiency of farmers engaged in mixed crop–livestock systems under conservation agriculture (CLCA) in Tunisian rainfed areas who are using Resource-Conserving ...
Innovation platform, farmers’ organization and market to empower small farmers benefit from an autochthonous meat sheep value chain under low input production systems
Regional development in Tunisian livestock has been based mainly on segments rather than on an integrated system approach and a value chains concept. Even though efforts were made to improve production, livestock productivity ...
Coping Strategies and Perceived Effects in Response to Climate Shock Exposure: Household resiliency toward food insecurity related to drought in central Tunisian rural communities
Climate change exacerbated droughts by making them more frequent that increased risks of food insecurity faced by rural families in arid areas. Adopting coping mechanisms are necessary to reduce the vulnerability of rural ...
Critical Assessment of Groundwater Management Instruments in Tunisia: Current and potential instruments for better regulation of groundwater extraction
Groundwater is very important in Tunisia, where 43% of water currently used for irrigation is pumped from deep and shallow aquifers. Groundwater resources have been intensively mobilized in many parts of the country since ...