Featured Blogs
June 27, 2023
A father teaches his daughter beekeeping skills, she helps him leverage new technologies to access tools for better bee health and up-to-date information.
June 15, 2023
For World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought we discuss an ICARDA study that highlights the gender-specific challenges dryland women face in the equitable use and sustainable management of rangelands.
May 22, 2023
Neglected crops improve soil health, reduce water usage, provide a nutritious food source, and enhance biodiversity. Yet they are overlooked. We discuss their benefits and what they offer to climate-smart food system transformation.
May 18, 2023
Narrowing the gender digital divide, supporting rural women's livelihoods, and promoting biodiversity through beekeeping as an opportunity for income-generating environmentally sustainable activities.
Recent Blogs
July 28, 2019
Dr. Filippo Bassi was interviewed by Joseph Opoku Gakpo, Ghana Correspondent for the Cornell Alliance for Science blog
July 02, 2019
Rangelands in Jordan form around 80% of the land area. Severe land degradation exists due to natural and anthropogenic factors. Restoration attempts to reduce and mitigate rangeland degradation by using the micro-water harvesting techniques coupled with out-planting of native species on hill-slope areas, have been introduced and adopted in Jordan.
July 02, 2019
Rangelands in Jordan form around 80% of the land area. Severe land degradation is due to natural and anthropogenic factors. Restoration attempts to reduce and mitigate rangeland degradation by using the micro-water harvesting techniques coupled with out-planting of native species on hill-slope areas, have been introduced and adopted in Jordan.
July 02, 2019
10 out of 12 of Jordan’s underwater basins are overpumped. A new NGO, the Watershed and Development Initiative (WADI), was launched to engage local communities in land management and rehabilitation.
June 19, 2019
This approach offers an opportunity to characterize complex causalities and attribute realistic weights to specified causal linkages, as is relevant for the study of natural resource governance.
June 16, 2019
A diagnosis of the livelihood situation of the Syrian refugees in Beqaa valley.
January 15, 2019
What does it take to accelerate the adoption of livestock integration in Conservation Agriculture among rural farming communities?
January 10, 2019
A water supply and management project is supporting host communities in a country where resources have been over-utilized and basic services stretched.
January 07, 2019
New and surprising insights of an ICARDA study on livestock production identify steps to reduce the workload of rural women.