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Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1986/87
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
Agricultural Productivity in the WANA Region
The interest of governments, international organizations, NGOs and the general public has recently been aroused by studies considering the use of existing agricultural technology, the use of innovations in such technology ...
Grasslands in 'Old World' and 'New World' Mediterranean-climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities
Despite their ecological, economic and social importance,
grasslands in areas with Mediterranean climates
continue to receive limited scientific, political and
media attention. The main objectives of this review
are to ...
Germplasm Program Legumes Annual Report 1995
This report summarizes the key accomplishments and efforts of the Germplasm Program Legumes at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 1995.
Farm Resource Management Program Annual Report 1989
This report summarizes the key accomplishments and efforts of the Farm Resource Management Program at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 1989.
Plant Breeding with Farmers: A technical manual
This manual on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is based primarily on the direct experience derived from several years of implementing PPB programmes in a number of countries and on a number of crops, and secondly, from ...
Maintaining production in water-scarce environments
Can conservation agriculture deliver for farmers across the Arab World?
Improvement of Crop - Livestock Integration systems in West Asia and North Africa
The West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region is characterized by a high population growth rate, large and rapidly increasing food deficits, highly variable income levels both within and between countries, limited arable ...
Cereal Improvement Program 1991
In 1990/91 North Africa and Turkey had excellent seasons and most of the rest of the region had an average season. In Syria there was a very dry February and early March but this was followed by good spring rains in late ...
Innovative Agriculture for Food Security: An integrated agro-ecosystems approach
Agricultural research has improved the lives of millions of people in
the past three decades. But today, poverty, hunger, lack of access
to food and nutrition remain a daily fact of life for millions of people
in many of ...