Publications and Resources

Limited availability and access to seeds of improved varieties are often blamed for the low adoption of legume-based rotations. In this paper, we use a case study of chickpea and lentil production in Ethiopia and a gendered lens to identify other...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the central issues in dealing with soil fertility as well
as environmental and food safety. Due to the lack of relevant data sources and methodologies,
analyzing SOC dynamics has been a challenge in Morocco. During...

While the Convention on Biological Diversity employs a habitat-oriented defini-tion of soil biodiversity including all kinds of species living in soil, the Food andAgriculture Organization, since 2002 assigned to safeguard soil biodiversity,excludes...

Promoting sustainable agriculture and improving nutrition are the main United Nation’s sustainable
development goals by 2030. New technologies are required to achieve zero hunger, and genome
editing technology is the most promising one. In the last...

irregular rainfall mainly during the winter season. The average rainfall in the
region is around 500 mm, but most of the cropped lands may receive rainfall
in the range of 300–900 mm, varying from year to year, with rainfall distribution
also varying...

Recent morphological and molecular studies confirmed Physoderma viciae, and not Olpidium viciae, to be the causative agent of the devastating Faba Bean Gall (FBG) disease on faba bean (Vicia faba) in Ethiopia and also highlighted its ability to cross...

This data paper describes the content of 16 datasets collected under the International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP), an alliance between Turkey-CIMMYT-ICARDA (TCI), during the 2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 seasons. Data...