Predicted Willingness of Farmers to Adopt Water Harvesting Technologies: A Case Study from the Jordanian Badia (Jordan)
Water-harvesting practices, which capture and concentrate surface runoff for crop or range production, can help to re-establish the productive functioning of Jordanian Badia environments. The main objective of this study is to assess the rate of...
Mapping paddy rice planting areas through time series analysis of MODIS land surface temperature and vegetation index data
management of water resources, and estimation of greenhouse gas (methane) emissions. Paddy rice agriculture has expanded rapidly in northeastern China in the last decade, but there are no updated maps of paddy rice fields in the region. Existing...
Markets offer women opportunities to capitalize on ecosystem services
Present laws in Kazakhstan widely recognize the principle of gender equality, but, as in many other countries, the reality is different. Women are considered inferior to men in the Kazakhstani society, and as a consequence many are cut-off from...
Adapting to increasing water scarcity in the arid regions of Jordan
The dirt beneath our feet is more valuable than you might think. Soil is the basis for both food and fuel production and it is essential for the ecosystem services that nature provides us. Soil is finite. Once it is degraded, it cannot be...
Private–Public Partnership and South-South Collaboration: India-Morocco/OCPF Food Legume Initiative
At a recently concluded annual review and planning meeting (2014-2015) of the India-Morocco/OCPF Food Legume Initiative’s project entitled ‘Increasing food legumes production by small-scale farmers to strengthen food and nutritional security...
Promoting Knowledge about Sustainable Land Management in Central Asia
With the IFAD-funded ICARDA project to streamline the creation and use of knowledge about sustainable land management (SLM) in the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), efforts to combat...
Sharing Winter Wheat Knowledge through a Traveling Seminar in Azerbaijan and Georgia
Every two years, the International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP) conducts a traveling seminar to evaluate germplasm, assess current practices and relations, and develop a plan for future improvements in winter wheat production. IWWIP...
Commercial behaviours of smallholder farmers in wheat seed use and its implication for demand assessment in Ethiopia
The article presents the commercial behaviour and its determinants of smallholder farmers in wheat seed use, and its implication for seed demand assessment, based on primary data from 524 wheat farmers in the major wheat growing areas covering...
Monitoring surface run-off and soil erosion processes
Within the ‘Unlocking the potential of rainfed agriculture in Ethiopia for improved rural livelihoods’ (UNPRA) project, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (BOKU) research focuses on the establishment...
