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Yield Gap Analysis: Modelling of Achievable Yields at Farm Level
The world population is expected to reach about 8 billion by 2025 (United Nations, 2006), before it stabilizes at about 10-11 billion towards the end of the 21st century. Most of this increase in population is expected to ...
Best Practices for Managing Awassi Sheep 4-Lactation Period
This booklet is part of a ten-part series of technical guidelines describing best practices for managing Awassi sheep – the dominant sheep breed in several countries across the Middle East. The series is targeted at sheep ...
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Livestock and Societies: Multiple Roles of Livestock in Tropical Countries; Elevages et sociétés : les rôles multiples de l'élevage dans les pays tropicaux
Due to its ability to develop in confined spaces or in harsh agro-ecological environments, livestock is important for a wide variety of social groups in almost all geographical locations. Livestock is part of many economic ...
Milk and Reproduction Performances of Awassi Sheep in Tal Hadya Station, Syria, 2002-2011
The data were collected from an experimental sheep flock that was maintained at ICARDA’s Tal Hadya station, Aleppo, Syria (now in Terbol station in Lebanon). By 1980, the foundation of ICARDA’s experimental Syrian Awassi ...
CAC News No 28. April-June 2006
News from CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) covering the countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, ...
Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary
Dromedaries have been fundamental to the development of human societies in arid landscapes and for long-distance trade across hostile hot terrains for 3,000 y. Today they continue to be an important livestock resource in ...
Strategies help farmers cope with climate change. استراتيجيات تساعد المزارعين على التكيف مع التغير المناخي
This project aims to make research results rapidly available to resource-poor farmers and policy makers. This will help them better understand climate change and how to deal with it, and give them access to a range of ...
Potential use of Mediterranean saltbush (Atriplex halimus L.) in alley cropping in the low rainfall-cropping zone of northwest Syria
This study was conducted in farmers. fields in northern Syria to determine whether introduction of Mediterranean saltbush (Atriplex halimus L.) in barley fields could increase feed quantity without jeopardizing barley grain ...
Rainfed Farming System of the Near East Region 1986
Rainfed farming systems of the Mediterranean Basin share many features and also resemble those of the Arabian Peninsula in some respects. In the region, agriculture plays an important role in employing and feeding much of ...