Nutritional and Food Safety Characteristics of Jameed - A Traditional Dairy Product of Drylands
Jameed is a traditional dried dairy product in Jordan that is known under different names in the Middle East, Turkey, Central Asia, China, and Mongolia. It has been produced in the region for centuries and makes a significant contribution (up to...
A Regional Perspective of Socio-Ecological Predictors for Fruit and Nut Tree Varietal Diversity Maintained by Farmer Communities in Central Asia
The five independent countries of Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, contain one of the richest areas in the world for the specific and intraspecific diversity of temperate fruit and nut tree...
“Farming with alternative pollinators” provides benefits also in large-scale fields
Insect pollinators are declining worldwide due to many challenges and several approaches have been implemented to mitigate their loss. Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP) uses marketable habitat enhancement plants (MHEP) that yield...
Growing Food Against the Odds: The iNASHR Success Story
ICARDA has recently concluded the four-year Innovative Agriculture for Small-holder Resilience (iNASHR) Project in Egypt with resounding success. The generous support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and collaboration of Egypt's Agricultural Research Center (ARC) and Access Agriculture made this vital work possible.
Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need
Consensus statement from the presenters and the International Advisory Committee of the Regional Action on Climate Change Symposium (RACC-15) held in conjunction with, and with the support of the Kyoto-based Science, Technology and Society Forum...
Genome-wide association study of common resistance to rust species in tetraploid wheat
Rusts of the genus Puccinia are wheat pathogens. Stem (black; Sr), leaf (brown; Lr), and stripe (yellow; Yr) rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), Puccinia triticina (Pt), and Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), can...
