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Site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
The document presents the site intervention plans designed through the SmaRT Workshop in April 2017
Community gender profiles help target small ruminant value chain interventions in Ethiopia
The design of research and development interventions in Ethiopia has long been hampered by a lack of gender disaggregated data. Working to overcome these data shortages, a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercise was ...
Assessing the Impacts of the GAFTA Agreement on Selected Members’ bilateral Agricultural Trade: an Application of the Gravity Model
Trade flows of agricultural commodities have always received a lot of attention in the Arab region,
mainly due to their implications on food security, politics and competition. Most international trade theories
postulate ...
Farmers Training on Informal Seed Production of Wheat and Lentil
Wheat and lentil are important crops to ensure food and nutritional security in dryland region. However, yield of these crops is quite low. Farmers plant local varieties using their own unimproved seeds. Low crop yield ...
Innovation and capacity building to support Afghanistan’s rural development: Input to the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework
Afghanistan-ICARDA programs have field tested a range of rural development approaches and practices. Many of these are ripe for scaling-up at national level and can contribute to the EU-Afghanistan National Priority Programs ...
Improved crop productivity and rural livelihoods through balanced nutrition in the rainfed semi-arid tropics
Diagnostic soil analysis in targeted clusters of eight districts in Andhra Pradesh revealed critical deficiencies of sulphur (61 to 98%),
boron (23 to 98%) and zinc (45 to 85%) in addition to that of soil carbon (25 to ...
Value chain assessment of sheep production in Central Tunisia: a comparison study between Barbarine and Algerian Thin tail breed
Throughout the last decade, fat tail Barbarine sheep have been the dominant breed within livestock production systems in Tunisia and possess significant phenotypic and genetic production advantages over other breeds. In ...
Publication Review: Lessons learned in sustainable land management in drylands
Blog on Publication Review: Lessons learned in sustainable land management in drylands
Effect of stocking rate on biomass variation and lamb performances for barley stubble in Tunisian semi arid region and under conservation agriculture conditions
The integration of livestock in the practices of conservation agriculture (CA) was assessed in Tunisian
semi-arid conditions. Forty five Barbarine lambs (aged 220 ± 10 days, average body weight 20 ± 2.5 kg)
were used in a ...
Responses of sheep and goat under different physiological status to water restriction and salinity in the drylands
The presentation documents the study carried in Tunisia on responses of sheep and goat under different physiological status to water restriction and salinity. Water scarcity and salinization are challenging the efficiency ...