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Title: Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2018-2025
Author(s)Date: 2020-04-30Type: Other (Action Plan)Status: Timeless limited accessThe Nutrition action plan addresses the nutritional needs of all population groups in Uganda and therefore was developed in the context of the available set of policy and legal frameworks. The Republic of Uganda Constitution ... -
Title: Ultrasound diagnosis as low-tech tool for sheep and goat production systems
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-19Type: BlogStatus: Open accessProductivity and profitability of meat and milk production from small ruminants are geared by reproductive performance. Ultrasound machines may not seem to fit with preconceived ideas for use in extensive, low input systems, ... -
Title: Unconventional feeds for small ruminants in dry areas have a minor effect on manure nitrogen flow in the soil–plant system
Author(s)Date: 2013-01-10Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessIn dry areas, unconventional feeds are increasingly used for mitigating feed shortages and rangeland degradation. We evaluated how feeding sheep diets containing olive leaves, saltbush leaves and olive cake affects manure ... -
Title: Understanding and Managing Aflatoxin Contamination in the Groundnut Value Chain in Nigeria
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-31Type: ManualStatus: Open accessThis manual is conceived to support awareness raising campaigns of the groundnut value chain actors in and out of the States targeted for the implementation of the USAID funded Groundnut Technology Upscaling Project in ... -
Title: Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways Two decades of change in southern Mali
Author(s)Date: 2014-09-15Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessInstitutional support for smallholders has been themotor for the expanding cotton production sector in southern Mali since the 1970s. Smallholder farms exhibit diverse resource endowments and little is known on how ... -
Title: Understanding Farmers’ Adaptation to Water Scarcity: A Case Study from the Western Nile Delta, Egypt
Author(s)Date: 2014-03-19Type: Internal ReportStatus: Limited accessThis research study analyzes how farmers adapt to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt (al-Bayda Canal). The results of the study show that farmers use several methods to adapt ... -
Title: Understanding farming system and crop-livestock value chains dynamics to identify potential interventions to improve farmers’ livelihoods in Niger and Burkina Faso
Author(s)Date: 2020-02-13Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThis report conducted more research on integrated technologies; practices or management options to improve the inclusive crop-livestock systems value chains, increase incomes, reduce poverty and improve nutrition and health. ... -
Title: Understanding Forage Production Systems in Baghlan province
Author(s)Date: 2017-07-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessThe workshop is held in Dubai from 3-5 July. The workshop is part of a larger research project aiming to gain insight in the existing space for women to exert agency to engage in innovation in the forage system as a way ... -
Title: Understanding how Gender relations affect accessibility of improved soybean seed among smallholder farmers in Malawi
Author(s)Date: 2020-02-10Type: ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessThis study aimed at understanding how gender relations influence or affect accessibility of soybean seed among smallholder famers in Malawi. The study was a case study that deployed a mixed method approach of individual ... -
Title: Understanding trends and patterns of production, consumption and trade of pulses within Middle East-North Africa (MENA): implications for research, development and policy within the region
Author(s)Date: 2016-12-31Type: PosterStatus: Open accessThe research community continues to express the concern over a decline in the production of food legumes within the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, despite the growth in average consumption. The underpinnings for ... -
Title: United Arab Emirates and ICARDA. Highlight of 20 years of Collaboration and Achievements
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-13Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessIn 1988, ICARDA began a special program for the Arabian Peninsula (AP) countries called Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP). The partnership with AP specially United Arab Emirates (UAE) became stronger in 1995, when ... -
Title: Unlocking Market Potential of Agroforestry Products Among Smallholder Farmers in the Sahelian and Sudanian Ecozone Countries of West Africa
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessIn the Sahelian countries, gathering of agroforestry tree products is one of the few livelihood activities that hold great potential for income generation and poverty reduction among resource-poor households. This study ... -
Title: An Updated Review of Research on Heliocheilus albipunctella (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in Sahelian West Africa
Author(s)Date: 2019-02-28Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessIn the Sahelian region of West Africa, pearl millet, which is a major subsistence food crop supporting families’ livelihoods, is regularly attacked by the millet head miner/spike worm, Heliocheilus (=Raghuva) albipunctella ... -
Title: Urediospores of rust fungi are ice nucleation active at >−10 C and harbor ice nucleation active bacteria
Author(s)Date: 2013-11-24Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessVarious features of the biology of the rust fungi and of the epidemiology of the plant diseases they cause illustrate the important role of rainfall in their life history. Based on this insight we have characterized the ... -
Title: USA-ICARDA
Author(s)Date: 2011-12-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessSince ICARDA’s inception in 1977, the United States has been the single biggest donor to the center’s research and capacity development programs. The benefits of this significant investment by US partners are dramatically ... -
Title: Use and conservation of agrobiodiversity for increased agricultural sustainability, smallholder wellbeing and resilience to climate change in India - Rajasthan
Author(s)Date: 2015-06-12Type: ReportStatus: Open accessBecause of large scale industrialization, fast urbanization, mega hydraulic projects and surface road/rail network, many of the natural ecosystems /habitats have been destroyed resulting in increased number of endangered ... -
Title: USE OF APIs : DRUPAL Website and harvesting from MEL API
Author(s)Date: 2019-12-04Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessA Drupal feeds module is now being used to import data from several web services. ICARDA uses the external services from MEL and UBW to import content to the ICARDA site using custom modules. The web services provided data ... -
Title: Use of expressed sequence tag microsatellite markers for exploring genetic diversity in lentil and related wild species
Author(s)Date: 2016-08-28Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessExpressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers were used to analyse genetic diversity among three Lens species. The SSR loci amplified successfully in wild species, with 94·82% transferability in Lens ... -
Title: Use of latent factor mixed model to analyze allele climate association in a panel of ICARDA durum wheat accessions
Author(s)Date: 2018-10-02Type: ThesisStatus: Open accessThe purpose of the current study was to appraise desirable associations between allele frequencies and environmental variables for a set of North African durum wheat landraces using latent factor mixed models. Speci cally: To ... -
Title: Use of sorghum on stepwise substitution of maize in broiler feeds in Niger
Author(s)Date: 2015-06-18Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessWith an objective to demonstrate the merits of diets based on locally produced non-tannin sorghums as against maize on total of 240 1-day old broiler chicks. Results indicated that tannin free sorghum had nutritional value ...