Crop wild relatives in Lebanon: mapping the distribution of Poaceae and Fabaceae priority taxa for conservation planning
Lebanon is a part of the Fertile Crescent recognized for its agrobiodiversity wealth in terms of both cultivated plants and crop wild relatives (CWR) diversity. Within the context of climate change and its adverse effect on agrobiodiversity...
Research priorities to strengthen women's roles in climate-resilient agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa
A new strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the MENA region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.
Potential Of Water Harvesting as a Strategic Tool for Resilience, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Drought Mitigation in the Olive Farming System in Palestine
Phenotypic diversity of Medicago crop wild relatives growing in Lebanon
Medicago L. (Fabaceae; Papillionoidae) has high nutritive value, palatability, and ability to improve the soil fertility which puts it as one of the world’s most important forages. Medicago genetic resources are suffering from anthropogenic...
Successful Launch of AgMIP-MENA Platform: A Promising Start to Enhance Agricultural Modeling for Food Security in the MENA Region
ICARDA & Mohammed IV Polytechnic University launched the regional AgMIP-MENA Platform in cooperation with the global Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project.
Proximal thermal imaging-based irrigation scheduling for bread wheat in Egypt
Owing to the significance of leaf and air temperature differences (ΔT) under arid conditions, this study aimed to prove the proximal thermal imaging concept for irrigation scheduling under controlled irrigation amounts for wheat in Egypt. This...
Analyzing satellite data time-series for agricultural expansion and its water consumption in arid region: a case study of the Farafra oasis in Egypt's Western Desert
