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Business Model: Community-Based Breeding Programs
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Boku University of Austria came up with the idea of community-based breeding program (CBBP) ...
Проблемы и перспективы развития животноводства в Узбекистане (RU); Problems and prospects of livestock development in Uzbekistan (ENG)
На животноводство приходится 31% от всего валового объема продуции сельского хозяйства Узбекистна. Данная отрасль играет большую роль в генерировании доходов сельских жителей страны, поэтому проблемы и перспективы ее ...
Raised-Bed Farming System Technology (RFST) in Egypt: Qualities and Determinants of Adoption in Different Agricultural Livelihood Conditions.
Mechanized raised-bed technology (MRBT) has been recognized as an important component of integrated water management to achieve higher productivity in intensive irrigated systems, such as those found in the Nile Delta. ...
What do we really know about the impacts of improved grain legumes and dryland cereals? A critical review of 18 impact studies
Improved grain legume and dryland cereal (GLDC) varieties hold potential to intensify
smallholder agriculture and improve livelihoods in semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa
and South Asia. To assess the empirical ...
Can Agricultural Citizen Science Improve Seed Systems
Using on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (tricot) for crowdsourcing participatory variety selection is a new citizen–science methodology for agriculture that has been developed by Bioversity International to make ...
Make hay while the sun shines: Gendered opportunities and challenges to innovation in forage production in Afghanistan
This working paper discusses the interface between gender and agricultural innovation systems. More specifically, the working paper investigates how gender norms and roles influence social relations between actors in forage ...
Land Suitability Mapping for Production of Chickpea, Faba Bean and Malt Barley Varieties in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's agriculture has been facing recurrent challenges and the country remains food insecure due to its ever-increasing population and chronically low agricultural productivity despite its high biophysical potential. ...
XW Disease shock, household livelihood strategies and welfare: evidence from banana producing households in Uganda
Farmers experience various shocks that result into massive crop failure there by affecting their livelihoods. Besides the shocks related to climate change, the effects of other types of shocks along with the alternative ...
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decisions to Adopt Improved Technologies in Semi-Arid Farming Systems: A case study of the barley variety Kounouz and feed blocks technology in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of innovative agricultural technologies to boost productivity, incomes, and food security for farmers, the adoption rate by smallholders in Tunisia’s livestock-barley systems is very slow. This ...
Adoption and Economic Assessment of Improved Technologies in ICARDA’s Arabian Peninsula Regional Program
The objective of this report is threefold. Firstly, the report is to investigate costs and benefits associated with ICARDA-APRP technologies adopted by Arabian Peninsula (AP) farmers and identify the most effective and ...