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Identifying Low Emissions Development Pathways – Synergies and Trade-offs: A Case Study of Mahbubnagar District, Telangana, India
This case study examines the opportunities for obtaining synergies between agricultural productivity, wholefarm profitability and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and highlights where trade-offs exist. We explore how ...
Enhancing faba bean (Vicia faba L.) germplasm for resilience to temperature extremes
The Western Regional Plant Introduction Station (WRPIS) is one of the four regional plant introduction stations in the US Department of Agriculture-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) with the mission of acquiring, ...
Fingerprinting of Some Omani Date Palm Cultivars using SSR Markers
The numbers of known date palm cultivars that are distributed all over the world are approximately 5,000, out of which about 250 are found only in Oman. It is a dioecious, perennial, monocot plant, and its heterozygous ...
Adoption assessment of the project introduced technologies for date palm farming system in the Sultanate of Oman
The aim of this research paper is to assess the adoption level of the two
technologies (liquid pollination and polycarbonate drying houses) developed by the date
palm project in the Sultanate of Oman. The methodological ...
Degraded versus restored rangeland states in Jordan – hillslope to small-catchment level implications on runoff and erosion
Over the past decades, migration, overgrazing and mismanagement transformed the Jordanian rangelands into degraded badlands. Almost bare and crusted soil surface conditions are interlinked with accelerated runoff, soil ...
Adoption of the Project Introduced Technology for Date Palm in Sultanate of Oman
The aim of this research paper is to assess the adoption level of the two technologies (liquid pollination and polycarbonate drying houses) developed by the date palm project in the Sultanate of Oman. The methodological ...
Promoting Sustainable Land Management through a Robust Science/Policy Dialogue
A paper on “Promoting sustainable land management through a robust science-policy dialogue” was presented as part of Session 16 on December 3 of the conference on the valuation of ecosystem services- costs and benefits of SLM.
A Comparative Study for Competitiveness of Dates from the GCC countries in the World Market
In the GCC countries, date-palm sector is strategically important for the economic, social and environmental development. Therefore, markets globalization has had a huge impact on the comparative advantages of date exports ...
Best practices on date palm cultivation and their effect against RPW Infestation
Red Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) became one of the most devastating pest in the date palm, which has been spreading rapidly from East to West in the last 30 years and now it’s been reported in almost all ...
Spatial big data analytics for sustainable intensification of pulse crops in South Asia
Sustainable intensification has become a foremost goal of agricultural research and development in the
recent years. The mono-crop based production systems in South Asia retains nearly 30 percent of
cultivated area left ...