ICARDA Annual Report 1995
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Communication Team ICARDA. (1/1/1996). ICARDA Annual Report 1995. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Abstract
Achieving sustainable increases in agricultural productivity in the dry areas is a real challenge.
Rainfall in these areas is, by definition, low and variable. Conventional water resources are
limited, and the share available for agriculture is continually decreasing. Most of the dry areas
are located in the South, where the population growth rate is high and the gap between food
demand and supply is ever increasing. Increasing pressure of population is threatening the fragile
resource base. There is little scope for increasing the arable land arca, so the growing demand for
food and feed have to be met from yield increases through the application of biotechnological tools
to crop genetic improvement and the development of improved production practices based on
sustainable use of the natural resource base. Thus, ICARDA has a crucial role in the development
and transfer of improved technology to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and hunger
while protecting the environment in these areas. Unless the challenges of agricultural production
in the dry areas are wisely addressed, poverty and hunger may lead to socio-political disruption
and environmental destruction of the fragile ecosystems with serious national, regional, and
international consequences.
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; biodiversity ; farming systems ; germplasm conservation ; rangelands ; research ; sustainability ; sheep ; goats ; ethiopia ; cicer arietinum ; medicago sativa ; international cooperation ; resource management ; training ; north africa ; dry farming ; sudan ; faba beans ; lentils ; pakistan ; chickpeas ; hard wheat ; lens culinaris ; triticum durum ; aegilops ; pisum sativum ; trifolium ; trigonella ; vicia narbonensis ; feed legumes ; agricultural development ; plant collections ; pastures ; steppes ; diffusion of information ; middle east ; resource conservation ; vicia faba ; soft wheat ; barley ; faba bean ; wheat ; lentil ; chickpea