Featured Blogs
June 19, 2019
This approach offers an opportunity to characterize complex causalities and attribute realistic weights to specified causal linkages, as is relevant for the study of natural resource governance.
July 02, 2019
Rangelands in Jordan form around 80% of the land area. Severe land degradation exists due to natural and anthropogenic factors. Restoration attempts to reduce and mitigate rangeland degradation by using the micro-water harvesting techniques coupled with out-planting of native species on hill-slope areas, have been introduced and adopted in Jordan.
July 02, 2019
10 out of 12 of Jordan’s underwater basins are overpumped. A new NGO, the Watershed and Development Initiative (WADI), was launched to engage local communities in land management and rehabilitation.
June 16, 2019
A diagnosis of the livelihood situation of the Syrian refugees in Beqaa valley.
Recent Blogs
May 06, 2018
Drip irrigation promotes natural resource management and water conservation.
March 22, 2018
Guidelines for enhanced governance.
July 04, 2017
Although legumes are essential to meet the nutritional needs of Afghanistan’s growing population, the productivity of these vital crops remain low under farmer conditions.
July 04, 2017
A recently published analysis demonstrates for the first time temporal variation in Jordan’s barley landrace diversity.
July 02, 2017
The durum wheat breeding initiative helps farmers raise their incomes and diversify their diets.
July 02, 2017
A global database helps identify how land use and related pressures influence the occurrence, abundance, and diversity of wildlife species.
June 15, 2017
Optimizing mechanized micro water harvesting techniques can help to restore degraded rangelands, an innovative hydrology and erosion model suggests.
April 04, 2017
An ICARDA study finds that financial incentives are the key to sustainable rangeland management.
April 04, 2017
How can we overcome the constraints holding back women farmers and entrepreneurs?