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World-Water Day
March 21, 2020

SMART WATER MANAGEMENT – HOW A DROP OF DATA GOES A LONG WAY

On World-Water Day 2020 our guest Pasquale Steduto reflects on increasing challenges in dryland areas due to water scarcity, and how ICARDA is overcoming them.
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Land Rights
March 10, 2020

Land Governance Lost in Translation: Exploring Semantic Technologies to Increase Discoverability of New Technologies & Data

The languages which we speak change our thoughts and the way we think. What is more, is that new research shows that the many subtle differences across languages might actually change the way we experience the world around us.
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Growing vegetables in Tunisia. Photo: ICARDA
March 06, 2020

Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of the most gender unequal regions in the world. Male labor force participation rates in MENA are no different from other regions, at around 75%, but female labor force participation rates remain low, at around 20% .
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ICARDA Scientists
February 28, 2020

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) – Transforming Everyday Data Management

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) is an award winning, online platform for research for development (R4D) and knowledge management (KM) of projects and activities.
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Agricultural growth and sex-disaggregated employment in Africa: Future perspectives under different investment scenarios
February 21, 2020

Agricultural growth and sex-disaggregated employment in Africa: Future perspectives under different investment scenarios

Investments in agricultural research and development could generate higher overall employment beyond the agricultural sector, and particularly result in increased female employment in Africa
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dates
November 03, 2019

Date Palm Value Chain Analysis for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries

In order to develop a sustainable date palm production system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries of the Arabian Peninsula, an analysis of the date value chain in these countries was undertaken.
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Pulses
October 24, 2019

The Global Economy of Pulses

The Global Economy of Pulses, a key research output of the International Year of Pulses 2016, has been released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Bulk of the work for the report, edited by Vikas Rawal and Dorian K Navarro, was done by a research team of the Society for Social and Economic Research (SSER), New Delhi.
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Rangeland camels
October 23, 2019

A new comprehensive rangeland management tool for dryland areas can help promote sustainable land use

Developing effective management strategies and solutions to safeguard and preserve the productivity of rangelands are therefore crucial. Though efforts towards rangelands rehabilitation have been made by development partners, the scale is too small and lacks a holistic approach.
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Raised bed machinery
October 01, 2019

Considering socio-ecological diversity for the adoption of new technologies: a case study in Egypt

The mechanized raised-bed technology (MRBT) is an effective measure to increase crop productivity and water-use efficiency in intensive irrigated systems. It presents an important package of improved technology that the agricultural sector in Egypt can take advantage of/benefit from in tackling the challenges it is facing.
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waste
September 30, 2019

Wheat loss in Jordan

Food waste remains a relatively unexplored topic especially in the Middle East. While there are rough estimates of the total global food losses, most of them are either based on expert opinions and hence vary widely or they do not provide clear explanation on what was being estimated, how the estimation was made, and when.
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