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Title: Barley
Author(s)Date: 2017-02-08Type: Book ChapterStatus: Limited accessBarley being the earliest domesticated cereal is one of the major world crops today. Wide adaptation of barley to ecogeographic conditions and higher response to low input and stressful environments make it globally ... -
Title: Barley and Vetch yields from dryland rotations with varying tillage and residue management under Mediterranean conditions
Author(s)Date: 2008-10-01Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessWith increasing land-use pressure in semi-arid, dryland Middle Eastern agriculture, fallow-based cereal production has given way to cropping intensification, including legume-based rotations along with conservation tillage ... -
Title: Barley genetic resources under climate changes: a possible way in field study
Author(s)Date: 2014-06-25Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessPresentation presented at the International workshop: “Applied Mathematics and Omics Technologies for Discovering Biodiversity and Genetic Resources for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation to Sustain Agriculture in Drylands” -
Title: Barley High Input 2014 Trials Meta-data
Author(s)Date: 2016-05-20Type: DatasetStatus: Open accessThis is a metadata Excel file on Barley High Input Trials 2014 -
Title: Barley improvement programs at ICARDA to meet the global challenges
Author(s)Date: 2015-09-16Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessThe International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of the 15 CGIAR centers and has a global mandate for barley improvement, specifically for more than 19 million ha of barley grown in dry areas ... -
Title: Barley lines with higher grain beta glucan content identified
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-13Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessIn recent years, there has been renewed interest in food barley due to it's health benefitting properties. Barley grain contains a polysaccharide, beta glucan, which has been shown to reduce blood cholesterol and glucose ... -
Title: BARLEY TECHNOLOGIES ADOPTION AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO FARM HOUSEHOLDS’ INCOME AND FOOD AVAILABILITY IN SEMENSHEWA ZONE, AMHARA REGION, CENTRAL ETHIOPIA
Author(s)Date: 2018-08-30Type: ThesisStatus: Open accessIn Ethiopia, more than 80% of people are living in rural areas. They directly or indirectly relied on agriculture (mainly on crops and livestock production) for their livelihoods. Crop agriculture includes cereals, pulses, ... -
Title: Barley Yield Gaps, Varietal Adoption, and Seed Commercial Behavior of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia
Author(s)Date: 2017-07-31Type: BriefStatus: Open accessBarley (food and malt) is among the most important crops for food and nutritional security of smallholders’ farmers in the mixed crop-livestock farming systems in the highlands of Ethiopia. Barley is normally grown twice ... -
Title: The Baseline Analysis of the Nile Delta of Egypt
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-17Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThis study establishes baseline information on the socioeconomic and biophysical aspect of the three delta sites in Egypt as part of livelihood characterization and provides reference for monitoring impact in the future. ... -
Title: Baseline Analysis of the Production and Livelihood Systems of Meknes-Saies Region of Morocco
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-17Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThis report is a baseline study providing a description and analysis of the production system in three sites in the Meknes-Saies region of Morocco. The study is based on randomly selected sample of 508 farming households ... -
Title: Baseline characterization of the local stakeholders to promote the uptake of sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming system innovations in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-30Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThis characterization study is carried out under the innovation platform work package and aims to: (1) identify and characterize the existing stakeholders involved in agricultural development, (2) assess the level of ... -
Title: Baseline Information and Livelihood Characterization of Badia Benchmark Water Harvesting in Jordan
Author(s)Date: 2008-04-03Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThe project aims to improve the productivity of degraded rangelands through efficient utilization of limited rainfall. Nearly 48% of farmers in the Muhareb community own flocks, with an average flock size of about 159 head. ... -
Title: Baseline study, including socio-economic, gender, youth, capacity building, extension aspects conducted in Aral Sea Action Site covering 100 HHs
Author(s)Date: 2015-08-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessAgricultural producers in the dryland systems of Central Asia deal with environmental and market risks. To handle those risks, they try to optimize the allocation of their natural, physical, financial, social, and human ... -
Title: Baseline survey Fergana Valley Action Site_(Batken)
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-14Type: Internal ReportStatus: Limited accessAgricultural producers in the dryland systems of Central Asia deal with environmental and market risks. To handle those risks, they try to optimize the allocation of their natural, physical, financial, social, and human ... -
Title: Baseline Survey Report on Socio-economic Households Characterisation at Selected Watershed Catchments in Afghanistan
Author(s)Date: 2016-12-21Type: Internal ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessTo record the benchmarks for the identified indicators of the ACIAR funded “Integrated Catchment Management and Capacity Building for improving Livelihoods in Afghanistan” project, to improve livelihoods of men, women and ... -
Title: Baseline values for GLDC crops in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia
Author(s)Date: 2019-01-31Type: DatasetStatus: Timeless limited accessDatasets to update baseline values in the International Model for the Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) for GLDC crops in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia -
Title: Basis Risk and the Welfare Gains from Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
Author(s)Date: 2014-12-31Type: ReportStatus: Open accessIndex insurance products circumvent many of the transaction costs and asymmetric information problems that obstruct provision of low value conventional insurance policies in developing countries. Recent years have seen ... -
Title: A Bayesian analysis of data from on-farm trials in legumes in Afghanistan
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-23Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessOn-farm demonstration (OFD) are conducted to provide a real-time comparison of the recommended technology and the farmer practice in farmer’s field, and are effective and easy way to convince the farmers on the potential ... -
Title: A Bayesian analysis of data from on-farm trials in legumes in Afghanistan
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-20Type: PresentationStatus: Timeless limited accessThis presentation discusses Bayesian analysis of on-farm trials on chickpea and mung bean conducted in Afghanistan in 2012 using the priors from 2009-2011. It tabulates the posterior means of mean and standard deviation ... -
Title: A Bayesian Assessment of Productivity and Risks to Achieve Target Yields from Improved Chickpea and Mung Bean Varieties Using On-Farm Trials in Afghanistan
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-20Type: ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessLegumes are essential to meet nutrition need of growing population in Afghanistan but have low productivity under the farmer practices. With an aim to introduce improved varieties of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and mung ...