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Title: Narrowing the yield gap of food legumes through integrated management of parasitic weeds in the highlands of Ethiopia
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThe project was implemented in two districts of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The parasitic weed (Orobanche crenata) is distributed in different districts of the Northern highlands expanding its ecological range since ... -
Title: NARROWING YIELD GAPS THROUGH GENETIC IMPROVEMENT FOR FUSARIUM WILT RESISTANCE IN THREE PULSE CROPS OF THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS
Author(s)Date: 2013-11-23Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessChickpea, pigeonpea and lentil constitute the major component of low-input agriculture in the semi-arid tropics (SAT). These pulses play an important role in alleviating malnutrition by way of forming an inseparable ... -
Title: National and Regional Livestock Markets: Opportunities for Growth in SADC
Author(s)Date: 2013-03-31Type: BrochureStatus: Open accessThe last forty years has seen a continuous rise in the demand for meat, milk, and other livestock products worldwide. Fueled by trends such as increased urbanization, growing populations, and income growth in the urban ... -
Title: A National Framework for Salinity Management: The Case of Iraq Agriculture - Final Report
Author(s)Date: 2015-03-05Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThis final report synthesizes the results of the Iraq Salinity Project, a research partnership between five Iraqi ministries and national agencies and an international team of researchers, led by ICARDA, specializing in land ... -
Title: Natural resource management in the drylands in the Horn of Africa
Author(s)Date: 2013-11-30Type: BriefStatus: Open accessThis technical brief is part of a series prepared by experts for the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa. -
Title: NAWA 2015 Plan of Work and Budget_Revised: June 2015
Author(s)Date: 2015-06-15Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessCRP-DS NAWA 2015 Plan of Work and Budget_Revised: June 2015 -
Title: The NBeG47 Chickpea Variety, Mechanical Harvesting, and Gender in Rural India
Author(s)Date: 2020-02-17Type: ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessWith a growing population of over 1.3 billion people, India will need to intensify agricultural production to meet growing nutritional demands; it is particularly important to increase the productivity of pulse crops, which ... -
Title: A need for sustainability considerations in development interventions
Author(s)Date: 2016-03-01Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessA common misconception among many development practitioners is that interventions that increase household income are to be hailed. However, short-term benefits could possibly come at the expense of sustainability. By ... -
Title: Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production
Author(s)Date: 2016-08-02Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessThe United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain legumes) under the banner ‘nutritious seeds for a sustainable future’. A second green revolution is required to ensure food and nutritional security ... -
Title: The Netherlands and ICARDA
Author(s)Date: 2005-12-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThe Netherlands is one of the few developed countries that have been consistent in supporting development cooperation at levels agreed by the UN and OECD. Every year the country allocates 0.8% of its GNP to poverty reduction ... -
Title: A new approach to mining agricultural gene banks – to speed the pace of research innovation for food security
Author(s)Date: 2013-05-09Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open access‘FIGS’: A more precise approach to mining agricultural gene banks. This report presents the possibilities of ‘FIGS’, a new technique for searching agricultural genebanks, that helps crop breeders and their managers achieve ... -
Title: New dryland development paradigm grounded in empirical analysis of dryland systems science
Author(s)Date: 2017-10-31Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessGlobal drylands face a host of urgent human and environmental challenges with far‐reaching impacts. Improving smallholder agriculture remains a key development pathway to tackle these challenges. The dryland development ... -
Title: New microsatellite markers for assessment of genetic diversity in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
Author(s)Date: 2011-09-27Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessNew primer pairs of genomic DNA microsatellite markers were tested to assess the genetic diversity of eleven date palm genotypes. The results indicated that out of thirty, only seven primers (23.3%) failed to amplify ... -
Title: New Research Approaches to improve drylands agriculture to deliver a more prosperous future
Author(s)Date: 2013-01-30Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThis report presents the outline and context for the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems. It examines the ‘systems thinking’ that underpins the Program, against the background of climate change and the host of related ... -
Title: A new technique to map groundwater recharge in irrigated areas using a SWAT model under changing climate
Author(s)Date: 2014-11-27Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessThe Lower Chenab canal irrigation scheme, the largest irrigation scheme of the Indus Basin irrigation system was selected for an estimate of groundwater recharge using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) at high ... -
Title: New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remotesensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities
Author(s)Date: 2015-07-31Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessA seamless vegetation type map of India (scale 1: 50,000) prepared using medium-resolution IRS LISS-IIIimages is presented. The map was created using an on-screen visual interpretation technique and has anaccuracy of 90%, ... -
Title: New winter wheat varieties for improving productivity on saline fields in Central Asia
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-31Type: BriefStatus: Open accessWheat productivity is being adversely impacted by rising soil salinity in the fields of Central Asia, as a consequence of climate change and many other factors. Salinity reduces grain yield and negatively influences many ... -
Title: Newsletter presentation for inputs
Author(s)Date: 2019-11-26Type: NewsletterStatus: Open accessGLDC Newsletter presentation -
Title: Newsletter_Program Update Issue 4 June, 2014
Author(s)Date: 2014-06-04Type: NewsletterStatus: Open accessNewsletter_Program Update Issue 4 June, 2014 -
Title: Next‐generation sequencing identified genomic region and diagnostic markers for resistance to bacterial wilt on chromosome B02 in peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.)
Author(s)Date: 2019-05-13Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessBacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a devastating disease affecting over 350plant species. A few peanut cultivars were found to possess stable and durable bacterial wiltresistance (BWR). Genomics-assisted ...