| Centro Internacional
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT-TSBF) |
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Desert Margins Program (with
ICRAF, ICRISAT, ILRI) |
Engaging farmers in research and scaling-up
CORAF projects on sustainable soil management
Soil-water decision support systems training
Monitoring and evaluating local development
plans |
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Fertilizer micro-dosing and
drought tolerant varieties technology transfer
for small farmer prosperity in the Sahel (with
ICRISAT) |
CORAF project on microdosing
Intensification
and diversification of cropping systems |
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Combining water harvesting
techniques and nutrient management to sustain
food production in the drylands of West Africa
(with ICRISAT) |
CORAF project on water harvesting/nutrient
management |
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Promoting use of indigenous
phosphate rock for soil fertility
“recapitalization” in tropical Africa |
CORAF project on indigenous rock phosphate |
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Potential for payment for
environmental services (PES) approaches to
contribute to equitable and sustainable
management of soil and water in upper catchments
(CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food) |
Water and people in catchments |
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Center for International
Forestry Research (CIFOR) |
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Managing dry forests for
sustainable livelihoods in semi-arid countries
of southern, eastern and west Africa |
African dry forest project |
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Nature, wealth and power
(.pdf) |
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Building the capacity of
institutions to mitigate conflicts and better
manage woodland and savanna resources |
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Policies and incentives
for managing the Miombo Woodlands to meet
household needs in southern Africa |
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Climate change, water and
forest fires |
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International Maize and
Wheat Center (CIMMYT) |
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Wheat with enhanced water
productivity |
Rainfed wheat systems
ICARDA/CIMMYT Wheat Improvement Program |
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Resource conservation
technologies for maize and wheat cropping
systems |
Food security and income in the Limpopo Basin
Yellow River Basin (China) rainfed conservation
agriculture |
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International Center for
Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) |
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Improved land management to
combat desertification |
Project document (pdf format) |
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Manage scarce water resources and
mitigate drought |
Project document (pdf format) |
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Integrated gene management |
Project document (pdf format)
Conserving dryland agrobiodiversity in Middle
East
ICARDA
Seed Unit
ICARDA
and CIMMYT power of partnership |
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Diversification and sustainable
improvement of rural livelihoods |
Project document (pdf format) |
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Poverty and livelihood analysis |
Project document (pdf format) |
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Knowledge management and
dissemination for sustainable development |
Project document (pdf format)
Farmer participation in research |
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Regional programs |
North Africa
Nile Valley - Red Sea
West Asia
Arabian Peninsula
Highlands
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Latin America
Afghanistan rehabilitation
Mashreq & Maghreb countries |
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World Agroforestry Centre
(ICRAF) |
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Land degradation surveillance in
drylands |
West Africa Drylands Project |
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Desert Margins Program (with CIAT,
ICRISAT, ILRI) |
Agroforestry regulations in the Sahel |
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Agroforestry practices for
sustainable management of drylands |
Agroforestry in Action series - links to dryland
work
Trees for improved fallows
Agroforestry for soil fertility improvement in
southern Africa |
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Southern Africa - genetic
improvement of indigenous tree fruits
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Fruit tree products in southern Africa |
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Eastern Africa - restoring
degraded drylands |
Sensing soil condition with near infrared
reflectance spectroscopy
Fighting hunger with infrared spectroscopy in
western Kenya |
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International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
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Desert Margins Program |
Home page
Crop-livestock development with ILRI |
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New Sahel Project |
Sahelian eco-farm
African market garden
Acacia senegal biodiversity garden
Acacia senegal-based bioreclamation of
degraded lands
Crop diversification |
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Dryland agroecosystem sustainable
management |
Project summary
Combining water harvesting and nutrient
management (with CIAT-TSBF)
Organic fertilizer dynamics in the Sahel
Sequestering carbon in dryland soils |
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Breeding tropical dryland crops |
Global theme: crop improvement
Crop improvement and seed sector reform in
eastern/southern Africa
Commercializing smallholder crops in
eastern/southern Africa
Crop improvement networks in eastern/southern
Africa
Pearl millet improvement in west/central Africa
Sorghum research network in west/central Africa
Global theme: biotechnology for drought,
salinity tolerance |
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Dryland markets and policies |
Global theme summary
Relief, recovery and food security in
eastern/southern Africa |
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Dryland ICT for knowledge –
sharing |
Virtual Academy
for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Agricultural implications of climate variability |
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International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) |
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Land resource management for
poverty reduction |
Overview
Research theme: managing natural resources |
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Systemwide Program on Collective
Action and Property Rights |
Overview |
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Food systems: disaster
prevention, relief, and rebuilding after crises |
Theme summary |
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International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI) |
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Desert Margins Program |
Program overview |
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Better policy and management
options for pastoral lands |
Project overview |
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Land Use Change Impacts and
Dynamics (LUCID) Project |
Project home page |
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Climate-Land Interaction Project
(CLIP) |
Project home page |
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Improve livelihoods in the Sahel
through bio-economic decision support systems at
household level (with ICRISAT) |
Project home page |
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Agricultural transitions in West
Africa: Impacts on agropastoral livelihoods,
livestock mobility and the environment |
Project summary |
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Sustaining water and nutrient
productivity |
Project summary |
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International Water
Management Institute |
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IWMI Drought Information Centre
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Home page |
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Africa Rice Center (WARDA) |
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Irrigated rice in the Sahel |
Irrigated rice project summary |
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Sustainable intensification of
rainfed lowland rice systems for enhanced
livelihoods in dry areas |
Project summary
Inland
Valley Consortium
Technical efficiency of rainfed lowland rice (pdf)
Managing drought in rainfed rice ecosystems |
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Seasonal floodplain water
management (through Water & Food Challenge
Program, with WorldFish) |
Community-based fish culture in seasonal
floodplains (pdf) |
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Technology transfer |
ROCARIZ rice research-for-development network
INGER rice germplasm network |
