The development of integrated crop-livestock production systems in the low rainfall areas of Mashreq and Maghreb

Richard Thomas, Mohamad El Mourid, Tidiane Ngaido, Habib Halila, Elizabeth Bailey, Kamel Shideed, M. Malki, Ali Nefzaoui, A Chriyaa, Faisal Awawdeh, S. H Hassan, Y Sweidan, A Sbeita. (31/12/2003). The development of integrated crop-livestock production systems in the low rainfall areas of Mashreq and Maghreb, in "Research toward Integrated Natural Resources Management: Examples of Research Problems, Approaches and Partnerships in Action in the CGIAR". Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Abstract

Integrated barley -livestock production systems in the low rainfall areas of the Mashreq and Maghreb region (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia) were improved through the development of technological, institutional, and policy options by a multidisciplinary and Multi-institutional team consisting of two CGIAR centers (ICARDA and IFFPRI), the national agricultural research systems and two farming communities from each of the eight participating countries. Over five years the project evolved from an adaptive research program that developed and tested component technologies to an INRM project that addressed technical, socioeconomic, cultural, institutional, and policy issues for farming communities in marginal dry areas.