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Gammarth, Tunis, Tunisia

Establishing and Operating a Regional Network for Field Measurement of Actual Crop Water Consumption (Evapotranspiration)

December 6-9, 2019. Gammarth, Tunis, Tunisia. ET-Network Regional Training Workshop. Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa), is the main component required to understand both hydrological and ecological processes between the land surface and the...
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Ahmed Amri with Mariana Yazbek in the active collection of ICARDA's genebank at Terbol station in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
November 26, 2019

Ahmed Amri: From Morocco to Syria … and back again

As a young man working the fields of his family’s farm in the drylands of Morocco, Ahmed never thought he would attend university, let alone become the head of genetic resources at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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Application of Mixed Methods to Identify Small Ruminant Disease Priorities in Ethiopia
November 26, 2019

Application of Mixed Methods to Identify Small Ruminant Disease Priorities in Ethiopia

Animal health interventions tend to focus on transboundary or zoonotic animal diseases and little attention is given to diseases that mainly affect livestock production and productivity which are of concern for smallholder farmers. To understand...

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Tunis

First Regional Conference 'Improving water productivity in agriculture'

December 01 – 03. Cairo. 1st Edition of the international conference on FNSSA. Producing more food with less water is a straightforward objective that could be realized through using better production practices. However, in the context of the...
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Addis Ababa

Science and innovation in sustainable landscape

November 26-28, 2019. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ILRI campus. The WLE Flagship 2 “ Land and Water Solutions for Sustainable Intensification” aims to work for the sustainable intensification of agricultural land and water solutions for smallholder...
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Molecular Diagnosis of Viruses Causing Yellowing and Stunting Symptoms Affecting Pulse Crops in Central West Asia and North Africa Countries
November 25, 2019

Molecular Diagnosis of Viruses Causing Yellowing and Stunting Symptoms Affecting Pulse Crops in Central West Asia and North Africa Countries

Viruses causing yellowing and stunting are the most important virus diseases affecting pulses in many regions of the world, and were considered for many years to be caused mainly by infection with beet western yellows virus (BWYV, genus...

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Antifeedant and larvicidal activities of Mentha pulegium on chickpea pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
November 25, 2019

Antifeedant and larvicidal activities of Mentha pulegium on chickpea pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

This study investigates the insecticidal effect of the essential oil of Mentha pulegium L. on the second and third instar larvae of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner). Antifeedant, contact toxicity and systemic toxicity of M. pulegium essential oil...

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GIS-Based multi-criteria land suitability mapping for scaling faba bean varieties in Ethiopia
November 25, 2019

GIS-Based multi-criteria land suitability mapping for scaling faba bean varieties in Ethiopia

Successful scaling of agricultural technology requires a spatial explicit framework for targeting the right variety at the right place. This entails a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) approach, using a set of determining factors to delineate the...

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Survey tool for assessing the effectiveness of agricultural extension service delivery: Application to CLCA technologies transfer methods
November 25, 2019

Survey tool for assessing the effectiveness of agricultural extension service delivery: Application to CLCA technologies transfer methods

The project “Use of conservation agriculture in crop–livestock systems (CLCA) in the drylands for enhanced water use efficiency, soil fertility and productivity in North East, North Africa (NENA) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)...

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Athens

PRIMA Synergies with EU, Regional & International Organisations

21-22 November. Athens. Hosted and promoted by the General Secretariat for Research & Technology (GSRT) of the Ministry of Development and Investment, the PRIMA Workshop on “Synergies with EU and International Organisations” gave attention to...
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