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Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Farming Systems Research at ICARDA
The International Center for Agricultural Research for the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is located in Syria. Its headquarters are in Tel Hadya, a 948 ha farm 30 km south of Aleppo.
ICARDA was founded in 1977 and had its administrative ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 18: Incidence of Internal Parasites of Sheep in Upland Districts of Baluchistan.
Sixty-eight flocks of sheep in Kalat, Pishin, Loralai, and Zhob districts of upland Baluchistan were examined for the presence of internal parasites. Two of the most common breeds, Baluchi and Harnai, were included in the ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 16: Fourwing Saltbush Forage Compared with Conventional Feeds for Yearling Sheep.
Twenty-four yearling Harnai sheep were used to compare the palatability and nutritive value of the following rations: Fourwing saltbush, lucerne hay, and wheat straw plus barley grain. A palatability index showed that there ...
ICARDA Annual Report 1987
ICARDA Annual Report 1987
ICARDA Annual Report 1980-1981
The 1980-81 cropping season at ICARDA differed from the two preceding win tears (one very dry and one very wet) in that the total rainfall was close enough to the long-term mean to constitute an average year It also differed ...
Gender Roles in Agriculture: The Case of Afghanistan
Technological interventions aiming to improve livelihoods that bring
gender equity can become successful only when the prevailing gender
roles in society and access to different livelihood opportunities are fully
understood. ...
Technical Bulletin No. 3: Milk Processing Technologies for Small-Scale Producers
This Technical Bulletin is the third in a series produced by the Women's Livelihoods and Dairy Goat
Project being implemented in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This IFAD-funded project aims to improve rural
livelihoods in ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 14: AZRI and MART/AZR Research Plans
The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council's (PARC) Zone Research Institute was created to fulfill three major areas of PARC 's national agricultural research strategy namely:
(a) to establish and address the problems ...
Caravan 22: Review of agriculture in the dry areas
This issue of Caravan provides examples of ICARDA's work with its partners to help ensure sustainability of livelihoods for the poor in marginal areas.