ICARDA Research Mandate: Mandate in Dry Areas of the World

Rangeland & Small Ruminant Improvement

BRO-7.jpg	Mandate in Dry Areas of the World. Rangeland and small ruminant (sheep) improvement
Carv15-34a.jpg	A good reason to smile: Mohamed Acherkouk (left), rangeland specialist at INRAOujda, Morocco, and Mohamed Hammoudi, rangeland specialist at the Directorate of Agriculture, Oujda, Morocco, discuss the benefits of introducing fodder shrubs into farmers' fields. The combination of crops with wide-spaced hedgerows of drought-tolerant fodder shrubs proved a feasible solution. About 6000 ha have already been alley-cropped on private farms within the Taourirt-Tafoghalt project.
Carv18&19-10.jpg	Afghan farmers participating in the livestock and rangelands needs assessment.
Carv2-9.jpg	Livestock. Sheep grazing in Uzbekistan. Rangeland is a key issue in Central Asia.
CARV3-14b.jpg	Sheep on rangeland. Milking time: small ruminants convert poor-quality feed into good-quality food. Dairy products are an important source of protein.
CARV3-16a.jpg	Rangeland. A healthy stand of artemisia near Sinjar, Iraq.
CARV3-16b.jpg	Rangeland in Iraq. Farmer Hadji Khan of Kovak valley, Balochistan, with two types of white artemisia.
CARV3-19a.jpg	A saltbush plantation in Yemen. The technology has something to offer on rangeland throughout the world's dry areas.
CARV3-21b.jpg	Sheep feeding on barley stubble. The relationship between crops and livestock needs to be understood if the rangeland is to stay productive.
CARV3-23c.jpg	Sheep on rangeland. A woman’s work is never done...Milking can’t stop when it’s raining.
CARV3-24a.jpg	Livestock. Rangeland user and his sheep. Syria
CARV3-24b.jpg	Practices such as trucking of water to livestock on rangeland that has already been damaged. Overgrazing and unwise cereals cultivation have badly damaged the world’s feed resources.
CARV3-24d.jpg	Livestock. Rangeland user and his sheep. Central Asia
Carv4-22.jpg	Highland and rangeland: If one estimate is to be believed, the number of sheep and goats in Balochistan, the western province of Pakistan, increased from about 1.5 m in the mid-1950s to 18 million in 1986 and could reach 27 million by the end of the century. What has this done to the rangeland? Can the effects be reversed?
Carv5-24b.jpg	Livestock: Sheep grazing on rehabilitated rangeland.
Carv7-21.jpg	School children in the steppe learn about rangeland issues, a good safeguard for rangeland protection in years to come.