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Empowering women to enhance agricultural productivity
Despite prevailing social constraints, village-based seed enterprises are providing a route to empowerment.
Assessing gaps in irrigated agricultural productivity through satellite earth observations—A case study of the Fergana Valley, Central Asia
tImproving crop area and/or crop yields in agricultural regions is one of the foremost scientific challengesfor the next decades. This is especially true in irrigated areas because sustainable intensification of irri-gated ...
Measuring climate change impacts on farm income in Central Asia
Despite serious influences of climate change on food security and farm income, there is insufficient research in Central Asia on the impact of climate change on agro-ecosystems, farm incomes, and analysis of the potential ...
Wheat technologies introduced by SARD-SC produce five tons per hectare, to improve food security of Eritrea
A major contributing factor to increased productivity has been the development of new high yield varieties through the AfDB funded SARD-SC Wheat project of ICARDA working with the National Agricultural Research Institute ...
Rice Fallow Systems for Pulse Crops Bangladesh India Nepal - Progress Report Year 1 May 2016 - Aug. 2017
The main objective is the development of testing of cropping systems and agro-technologies for improved production and productivity of lentil, lathyrus and chickpea as second crop in rice-fallows for improved food and ...
Successful silage: Keeping forages for a long time while maintaining good quality
Silage is a technique for the conservation of green forages, using anaerobic fermentation process that develops on any moist forage high in sugars and placed in anaerobic condition. The resulting lactic fermentation is the ...
Peruvian Food Insecurity in The Face of Recurrent Natural Disasters: A Two-Step Adoption Analysis for Improved Potato Varieties
The International Potato Center (CIP) and Peruvian National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) have invested a substantial amount of resources towards the development of improved potato varieties in Peru. These varieties ...
Setting conservation priorities for crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
The aim of this paper is to contribute directly to the systematic, long-term conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) in the Fertile Crescent by setting conservation priorities to secure and improve CWR conservation in ...
Rainfed Agriculture and Food Security in Dry Areas
The world’s ability to produce enough food to feed the growing population is further constrained by water scarcity, particularly in dry areas. Water is an increasingly scarce resource and the FAO estimates that nearly 1.8 ...