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Water and Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula: Struggling for more actions
Food security is a critical issue for the Arabian Peninsula countries due fast population growth, reduced domestic food production and the tighter global food markets because of trading partners‘ strained export surpluses. ...
Seed And Forage Yield, And Forage Quality Determinants Of Nine Legume Shrubs In A Non-Tropical Dryland Environment
The objective was to identify legume shrub species for development of agroforestry technologies based on seed and forage (leaves and twigs < 10 mm diameter)yield, and determinants of forage quality. Ten individual plants ...
Institutional Change in the Syrian Rangelands
During the past forty years, the Syrian rangelands have been the focal point of government interventions. These had four major components: assertion of state ownership over rangelands, settlement and transformation of ...
Rangeland restoration in Jordan: Restoring vegetation cover by water harvesting measures
Restoration of the degraded rangelands in Jordan using mechanized water harvesting and native species
planting has become key to enhancing and maintaining the productivity and resilience of fragile ecosystems. A balanced ...
The Syrian steppe: past trends, current status and future priorities
Syria’s rangelands are vitally important both ecologically and economically, and they also have significant cultural and heritage values for Bedouin communities. Rangelands are the country’s largest land-use category. The ...
Tah village project in Syria: Another unsuccessful attempt to introduce ley-farming in the Mediterranean basin
A participatory on-farm research project was started at Tah village, 100 km south of Aleppo, Syria in 1984. The objective was to introduce annual medics (Medicago spp.) as a replacement for fallow in dryland wheat (Triticum ...