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Title: Conservation agriculture: Opportunities for intensified farming and environmental conservation in dry areas (English)
Author(s)Date: 2012-04-12Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessA synthesis of research and trials with smallholder farmers in drylands systems benefits and constraints to adoption. Farmer experiences and potential for uptake in Iraq, Syria, Morocco and Tunisia. This report presents ... -
Title: Orobanche crenata on Faba bean in Tadla Region (Morocco): Importance and training activities for farmers
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-30Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessThe broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk), parasitic plant, causes significant damage to food legumes in the Taghzirte region (Tadla, Morocco) and is the origine of very significant decrease in the reserved area for these ... -
Title: Survivability of lambs under village management condition: The case around Jimma, Ethiopia
Author(s)Date: 2011-04-01Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessThe influence of non-genetic factors on lamb survivability at various ages up to 360 days was studied under village management condition in Jimma, Ethiopia. The overall least squares means of lamb survival rate was 89.0 ... -
Title: Lentil in India
Author(s)Date: 2016-04-16Type: PosterStatus: Open accessLentil in India roll-up -
Title: Agricultural livelihood systems (ALS) typology for coping with socio-ecological diversity in ALS transition research: A demonstrative case in Pontieba, south-western Burkina Faso
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessSmallholder farms’ populations are characterized by their heterogeneity giving the diversity of farms’ livelihood settings. Integrated farming system modelling therefore requires a preliminary clear identification of the ... -
Title: Iraq Harvest: Progress and achievements of the HSAD-Iraq program
Author(s)Date: 2014-09-17Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessThe main aim of the nationwide HSAD project is to assist the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture in identifying and addressing key constraints to greater competitiveness of selected agriculture and agribusiness value chains. This ... -
Title: Farmers’ performance criteria for new barley varieties and their diffusion through farmer-to-farmer seed distribution
Author(s)Date: 1995-11-30Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessBarley, mainly the two local landraces ‘Arabic Abiad’ and ‘Arabic Aswad’, covers about 1.38 million ha of cultivated land in Syria. The average yield of these landraces is less than 1 t/ha. Barley breeders have developed ... -
Title: Cactus Pear Roots Turnover and Total Carbon Sequestration Rate Depends on Soil Volume Availability
Author(s)Date: 2017-03-30Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessThe influence of soil volume availability on roots carbon turnover and carbon sequestration rate of cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) was studied during three years trial. Since April 2014, 1- year-old cladodes were planted ... -
Title: Technologies and approaches on sustainable land management in Central Asia
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-07Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessCompilation of SLM technologies and approaches collected and applicable for Central Asian countries. Each SLM is described in short format adapted from WOCAT template and presented in 7 sections covering those to increase ... -
Title: Containing the Menace of Wheat Rusts: Institutionalized Interventions and Impacts
Author(s)Date: 2016-11-01Type: BookStatus: Open accessThis book is the grandstand of the collaborative endeavours of diverse stakeholders in addressing the challenges of wheat production and wheat rusts in Ethiopia within the context of the international efforts across Africa ... -
Title: Effect of shallow tillage, moldboard plowing, straw management and compost addition on soil organic matter and nitrogen in a dryland barley/wheat-vetch rotation
Author(s)Date: 2011-11-01Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessSustainability of dryland cropping is a major issue in the typical Mediterranean climatic environment of West Asia and North Africa. Management of crop residues and soil organic matter (SOM) and its interrelationship with ... -
Title: Development of a cactus pear agro-industry for the sub-Sahara Africa Region
Author(s)Date: 2015-01-25Type: Conference ProceedingsStatus: Open accessProceedings of International Cactus Pear Workshop held at the University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa -
Title: Minutes of a workshop on Developing Small Ruminant Breeding programs
Author(s)Date: 2016-02-01Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessIn Ethiopia there has been different attempts at developing breeding programs either for selective breeding or crossbreeding. Different institutions also follow varying approaches including nucleus and community-based ... -
Title: Determination of cultivar-dependent variation in food-feed traits in lentil (Lens culinaris)
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-10Type: ThesisStatus: Open accessThe study was conducted with the objectives of analyzing and evaluating of lentil varieties for haulm nutritional values, determining the relationship between fodder traits and agronomic traits, and developing Near Infrared ... -
Title: Regional Workshop on Community Approaches
Author(s)Date: 2004-08-12Type: News Item/Press ItemStatus: Open accessThe UNDP/GEF-supported Dryland Agrobiodiversity Project and the IFAD-supported Integrated Research on Durum Economics Network (IRDEN) project jointly organized a training workshop on 'Community Participatory Approaches' ... -
Title: Scaling the Innovative Post-rainy Sorghum ‘Seed Consortium’ for higher adoption and impacts (VNMKV) Final Technical Report
Author(s)Date: 2020-01-28Type: ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessBased on the objective of the project, a group meeting was conducted with regional manager & District MSSC, Parbhani and farmers from Manoli, Gava village on 12/09/2018 at Sorghum Research Station, VNMKV, Parbhani. Certified ... -
Title: We Need Youth! Small mechanization to preserve Moroccan Oases
Author(s)Date: 2017-09-21Type: BlogStatus: Open accessThe University of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Moulay Ismail and ICARDA, proposed the introduction of small machines as a possible solution to reduce the drudgery of farm work, facilitate field operations, ... -
Title: Role of climate change awareness in sustainable soil nutrient management by smallholder farms in Burkina Faso
Author(s)Date: 2018-02-08Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessClimate change effects are threats to the livelihood of Sub-Saharan smallholder farms. Farmers’ response and readiness to take adaptive measures depend on how they perceive (perception) and moreover understand and recognize ... -
Title: Transcriptome analyses reveal genotype- and developmental stage-specific molecular responses to drought and salinity stresses in chickpea
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-13Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessDrought and salinity are the major factors that limit chickpea production worldwide. We performed whole transcriptome analyses of chickpea genotypes to investigate the molecular basis of drought and salinity stress ... -
Title: Ex-ante nutrition security impacts of Research and Technology Options for Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Author(s)Date: 2019-12-20Type: Internal ReportStatus: Timeless limited accessIn this report, GLDC technologies were assessed and ranked based on their potential impact on nutrition security. Key findings suggest that in west and central Africa, the technologies with the largest positive impacts on ...