Breeding programmes described as community-based (CBBP) typically relate to low-input systems with farmers having a common interest to improve and share their genetic resources. CBBPs are more frequent with keepers of small ruminants, in particular...
Chickpea (Cice rarietinum L) is a cool season food legume and an important
cash crop in the Sudan. The crop was traditionally grown on residual moisture
of the flood in northern Sudan and recently it is introduced to the central parts
of the country...
The project used a market-driven science approach to ensure quick uptake by rural women and succeeded in establishing a self-sustaining value chain, from improved breeding and husbandry practices to production of world-class yarns and appealing...
A major reservoir of Nipah virus is believed to be the flying fox genus Pteropus, a fruit bat distributed
across many of the world’s tropical and sub-tropical areas. The emergence of the virus and its zoonotic transmission
to livestock and humans...
This study examines the site-specific, social, political, ecological, and economic contexts that shape agricultural practices and policies in two desert resettlements of Sa’yda and Intilaq, also called the New Lands that form part of the massive...
The Thesis has been submitted by Imad Ghanameh in partial fulfillment of the MSc Program in Water and Environmental Science at Birzeit University (West Bank), under the co-supervision of Dr. Mahmoud (Birzeit University) and Dr. Soppe (ICARDA).
Worldwide, plant viral infections decrease seriously the crop production yield, boosting the demand to develop new strategies to control viral diseases. One of these strategies to prevent viral infections, based on the immunomodulation faces many...
