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A participatory farming system approach for sustainable broomrape (Orobanche spp.) management in the Near East and North Africa
Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.) are aggressive and damaging parasitic weeds which have a tremendous impact on agriculture in East Africa, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Despite the availability of technologies ...
Caravan 24: Review of agriculture in the dry areas
Articles in this issue describe how value-addition options were identified for herbal and medicinal plants in a remote valley in Morocco; how cactus species – that combine hardiness with high market value – are being ...
Mashreq and Maghreb Project Achievements and Lessons Learnt from Phases I and II
In the low-rainfall areas of the countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA), rural livelihoods are primarily based on agro-pastoral production systems in which small ruminants (sheep and goats) represent the principal ...
Scaling-up Strategy and Action Plan
The aim of research is to contribute to development a nd improvement, as much as possible, of livelihoods. Unfortunately, generally, many research results do not find their way to development projects and stay i n the ...
Generation and exploitation of EST-derived SSR markers for assaying molecular diversity in durum wheat populations
Durum wheat [Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turgidum convar. durum (Desf.) MK] is an important cereal crop economically and nutritionally in the Central Asia and Caucasian, West Asia, and North Africa (CWANA) regions. Durum ...