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Conservation agriculture - a proven solution for sustainably raising agricultural production
May 10, 2015

Making the case for conservation agriculture

Conservation agriculture – the practice of not plowing farmlands and leaving crop residue in the field for improved soil fertility and water conservation – brings optimal production at the best cost.
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Salt accumulation methods in the root zone of the irrigated land (Credit: WLE).
May 10, 2015

New business potential for salt-affected agricultural lands

Recycling and reusing saline water can return salt-affected irrigated areas to higher levels of production, making significant contributions to food, feed and renewable energy production.
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Performance of small irrigated farms in Tunisia's Lower Medjerda Valley
May 01, 2015

Performance of small irrigated farms in Tunisia's Lower Medjerda Valley

Despite research efforts and the multiple interventions of States, the productivity of water, land, and capital resources is often low, particularly in Tunisia. This study provides a framework for analyzing the performance of irrigated farms and...

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IFAD’s President, Kanayo F. Nwanze (pictured), met with an ICARDA delegation to discuss on-going research for development collaborations.
April 30, 2015

IFAD-ICARDA collaborations across the Arabian Peninsula

An ICARDA delegation recently met officials from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), including the Fund’s President, Kanayo F. Nwanze.
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Parts of the Mediterranean basin are some of the regions predicted to be worst affected by climate change.
April 30, 2015

A resilience agenda for the Mediterranean

Changes in climate patterns are already having their most acute effect on people living in the world’s dry areas – including the Near East and North Africa.
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Greece encompasses the primary and secondary centers of diversity for several crops of global significance, including faba bean.
April 30, 2015

Collecting mission targets Greece

ICARDA’s Genetic Resources Section (GRS), supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, has been organizing collecting missions to previously unexplored parts of Greece.
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The capacity strengthening initiatives targeted date palm production – a strategic crop across the Arabian Peninsula.
April 30, 2015

Date palm: a strategic crop for the Arabian Peninsula

In order to improve the region’s date palm production, ICARDA’s Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP) has initiated a series of capacity strengthening events.
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H. E. Ato Tefera Derbw (Right), Ethiopia’s Minister of Agriculture, signing the MoU with ICARDA’s Director General, Dr. Mahmoud Solh.
April 30, 2015

Consolidating ICARDA's partnership with Ethiopia

An agreement with Ethiopia confirms the establishment of a new research for development platform focused on mixed crop-livestock production systems.
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Tracking the dynamics of paddy rice planting area in 1986–2010 through time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms
April 30, 2015

Tracking the dynamics of paddy rice planting area in 1986–2010 through time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms

Agricultural land use change substantially affects climate,water, ecosystems, biodiversity, and humanwelfare. In recent decades, due to increasing population and food demand and the backdrop of global warming, croplands have been expanding into...

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A failure to sufficiently consider gender will only partially transform sub-Saharan Africa’s wheat sector.
April 26, 2015

Addressing the gender deficit in wheat production

What are the constraints facing women farmers in the dry areas, and how can we overcome their limited access to technologies, inputs, and information?
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