Surface and groundwater resources are often conjunctively used to cope with water scarcity in irrigated agriculture. Farmers in the dryland ecosystems of central Asia also utilize shallow groundwater in addition to surface water withdrawn from rivers...
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Bangladesh, the cropping systems are predominantly rice based, having
large yield gaps in farmers’ fields because of poor management practices adopted by farmers. The
increasing scarcity of resources (water, labor...
Breeding programmes described as community-based (CBBP) typically relate to low-input systems with farmers having a common interest to improve and share their genetic resources. CBBPs are more frequent with keepers of small ruminants, in particular...
Chickpea (Cice rarietinum L) is a cool season food legume and an important
cash crop in the Sudan. The crop was traditionally grown on residual moisture
of the flood in northern Sudan and recently it is introduced to the central parts
of the country...
The project used a market-driven science approach to ensure quick uptake by rural women and succeeded in establishing a self-sustaining value chain, from improved breeding and husbandry practices to production of world-class yarns and appealing...
A major reservoir of Nipah virus is believed to be the flying fox genus Pteropus, a fruit bat distributed
across many of the world’s tropical and sub-tropical areas. The emergence of the virus and its zoonotic transmission
to livestock and humans...
Background
Cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz, is one of the most important crops world-wide representing the staple security for more than one billion of people. The development of dense genetic and physical maps, as the basis for implementing...
