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Camel with calf in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI)
October 06, 2016

Camel’s Milk: a New Tool to Eradicate Parasites?

Camel’s milk offers a practical solution for resource-poor to tackle widespread sheep worms according a recent study in Tunisia.
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At the launch of ICARDA's new Crop Genebank in Terbol, Lebanon
October 04, 2016

ICARDA Opens Expanded Crop Genebank in Lebanon

A new crop genebank containing a wealth of plant genetic resources from across the world’s dry areas was inaugurated in Lebanon, September 29.
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Gestion de l’usage d’une nappe par un groupement d’agriculteurs: l’expérience de Bsissi Oued El Akarit en Tunisie
October 02, 2016

Gestion de l’usage d’une nappe par un groupement d’agriculteurs: l’expérience de Bsissi Oued El Akarit en Tunisie

En Afrique du Nord, de nombreux aquifères sont surexploités, principalement du fait d’une agriculture irriguée intensive. Cependant, les politiques publiques qui ont cherché à réguler cet usage se sont montrées jusqu’à maintenant peu efficaces...

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Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners
October 01, 2016

Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners

Restoration efforts in the Mediterranean Basin have been changing from a silvicultural to an ecological restoration approach. Yet, to what extent the projects are guided by ecological restoration principles remains largely unknown. To analyse...

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Enhancing the performance of regional land cover mapping
October 01, 2016

Enhancing the performance of regional land cover mapping

Different pixel-based, object-based and subpixel-based methods such as time-series analysis, decision-tree, and different supervised approaches have been proposed to conduct land use/cover classification.However, despite their proven advantages...

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Development of a panel of unigene derived polymorphic EST-SSR markers in lentil using public database information
October 01, 2016

Development of a panel of unigene derived polymorphic EST-SSR markers in lentil using public database information

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), a diploid (2n = 14) with a genome size greater than 4000 Mbp, is an important cool season food legume grown worldwide. The availability of genomic resources is limited in this crop species. The objective of this...

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New faba bean germplasm with multiple resistances to Ascochyta blight, chocolate spot and rust diseases
September 30, 2016

New faba bean germplasm with multiple resistances to Ascochyta blight, chocolate spot and rust diseases

Faba bean is one of the oldest crops that originated in the Fertile Crescent and is now distributed around the world and produced under different agro-climatic conditions. It is mainly cultivated in high rainfall and irrigated areas which are...

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Reduction of Winter Wheat Yield Losses Caused by Stripe Rust through Fungicide Management
September 30, 2016

Reduction of Winter Wheat Yield Losses Caused by Stripe Rust through Fungicide Management

Stripe rust of winter bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) causes substantial grain yield loss in Central Asia. This study involved two replicated field experiments undertaken in 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 winter wheat crop seasons. The first...

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Young Researcher wins CIRAD award on Tropical Veterinary Medicine
September 28, 2016

Young Researcher wins CIRAD award on Tropical Veterinary Medicine

Ms. Mariem Rouatbi, Phd candidate and young Dryland Systems scientist has won an award by the International Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) for the best research summary presented at the first Joint International...

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Goat Market in Ethiopia
June 11, 2023

Beyond Milk and Meat: Prioritizing Traits That Matter to Pastoralists in Ethiopian Goat Breeding Programs

ICARDA's Resilient Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Systems (RASP) team has published a paper that identifies preferred traits in goats by pastoralists in Ethiopia. Understanding these preferences is crucial for designing improvement and conservation strategies for sustainable pastoralism in the country.
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