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Durum wheat: a staple crop for food security
Durum wheat is the 10th most important crop produced on the planet, and its consumption is nearly as old as civilisation itself. The Phoenicians were the first traders that sold its products along the shores of Mediterranean, ...
Mechanization to Drive A Process for Fertilizer Subsidy Reform in Egypt
Publicly available estimates suggest that close to 30%
of total employment in Egypt is generated from the
agricultural sector (World Bank, 2016). In percentage
terms, the figure is in line with many economies, both
industrialized ...
Correlation between the Chemical and Genetic Relationships among Thymus saturejoides Genotypes Cultured under in vitro and in vivo Environments
In this study, the in vitro and in vivo essential oil (EO) composition and genetic variability in six micropropagated genotypes of Thymus saturejoides COSS., a Mediterranean medicinal and aromatic plant, were analyzed by ...
Project Final Report: Optimising Subsidiary Crop Applications in Rotations (OSCAR)
The overall objective of the project OSCAR was to be of use for, and improve sustainability in low- input, organic, and conventional farming systems. The research built on centrally planned multi- environment and long-term ...
Variation in the straw traits of morphological fractions of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and implications for selecting for food-feed varieties
Five varieties of faba bean (four improved released varieties and one local variety) were investigated for varietal variation in straw yield, nutritive value of straw morphological fractions and grain yield. Samples of the ...
Science Quality at ICARDA: A Key to Rationalized, Efficient and Transferable Innovations
The document reviews the status of science quality (SQ) at ICARDA in the context of research, training and out-scaling dimensions. The overall objective of introducing the notion of SQ is in ensuring that the focus of the ...
Italian National Research Council (CNR) President and Ambassador Visit to ICARDA Jordan 2016 # 7
Italian National Research Council (CNR) President and Ambassador Visit to ICARDA Jordan 2016
MIND THE GAP: Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders - Project Overview
Understanding which extension approaches have the greatest success rate will help improve future agricultural technology dissemination efforts. This project will compare different extension approaches and evaluate their ...
Determination of cultivar-dependent variation in food-feed traits in lentil (Lens culinaris)
The 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 ...
Italian National Research Council (CNR) President and Ambassador Visit to ICARDA Jordan 2016 # 3
Italian National Research Council (CNR) President and Ambassador Visit to ICARDA Jordan 2016