Achievements in Natural Resource Management · Community Approach The Mashreqand Maghreb Project...
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Effect of Rotations on Organic Matter
and Total Soil Nitrogen Content over 10
years, Tel Hadya
OM (%) Total N (ppm)
Rotation 1985 1995 1985 1995
Cereal/legume 1.01 1.34 632 903
Cereal/fallow 1.10 1.08 637 738
Cereal/cereal 0.99 0.95 596 650
Community Approach
The Mashreq and Maghreb Project
CommunityCommunity
TechnologiesTechnologiesPolicy & Policy &
Property right Property right
studiesstudies
AgroAgro--Ecological Ecological
CharacterizationCharacterization
ScenariiScenarii
ModelingModeling
NGOs
Validation with community representativesValidation with community representatives
Presentation to decision makersPresentation to decision makers
Private sector Other communities
Public institutions
CommunityCommunity
TechnologiesTechnologiesPolicy & Policy &
Property right Property right
studiesstudies
AgroAgro--Ecological Ecological
CharacterizationCharacterization
Scenarios
ModelingModeling
NGOs
Validation with community representativesValidation with community representatives
Presentation to decision makersPresentation to decision makers
Private sector Other communities
Public institutions
Mashreq and Maghreb ProjectSuccessful Technologies
On-farm Feed
Production
On-farm Feed
Production
By-products
Feed Blocks
By-products
Feed Blocks
Cactus
& Fodder Shrubs
Cactus
& Fodder Shrubs
Natural Pastures Enhancement
& Rangeland Management
Natural Pastures Enhancement
& Rangeland Management
Barley ProductionBarley Production
MacroMacro-- and Microand Micro--catchmentscatchments for Water for Water
HarvestingHarvesting
Macro-catchment Micro-catchments
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10101010
20202020
30303030
40404040
50505050
60606060
Small Small Small Small MediumMediumMediumMedium LargeLargeLargeLarge
PlantPlantPlantPlant
FrekeFrekeFrekeFreke
LivestockLivestockLivestockLivestock
Off-FarmOff-FarmOff-FarmOff-Farm
Freke Producers only (%)
Freke Contribution to Farm Income
Role of micro-credit
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2000 2003 2000 2003 2000 2003
Poorest Poor Less poor
'`000 SP Informal
Formal
Sanadiq
Average amount of credit taken by a household from the different poverty
categories in the years 2000 and 2003 in a CWANA village
Major Achievements:
Capacity Building
Persons trained: 15,000
MSc and PhD: 550
Countries: 100
1977 to 2006
ICARDA has been playing a lead role in
rebuilding agriculture in countries
affected by conflict and natural disasters,
such as Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Iraq, Palestine, and Sudan; or political
reorganization, such as the newly
independent republics of Central Asia
and the Caucasus.
Rebuilding agriculture in
conflict-affected countries
The Hypothesis
Technological change in agriculture
Improved
nutrition
Reduced
poverty
Sustainable
NRM
Reduced armed conflict and terrorism
Courtesy: Dr Pinstrup Per-Andersen,
Cornell University
Program Development
1. Seed systems and crop improvement
2. Soil and water management
3. Livestock, feed and rangelands
4. Horticulture
Four themes were developed by separate workgroups at Tashkent:
Rebuilding Agriculture in Iraq
• Demonstrations to promote adapted crop varieties and technologies
• Conservation cropping technologies identified, promoted and adopted
• Capacity building
Supported by ACIAR
Donors to ICARDA(In descending order of contribution)
USA
UNITED KINGDOM
WORLD BANK
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
IFAD
ARAB FUND (AFESD)
THE NETHERLANDS
CANADA
GERMANY
SWITZERLAND
CGIAR
ITALY
AUSTRALIA
NORWAY
SWEDEN
SYRIA
JAPAN
FAO
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
PAKISTAN
DENMARK
EGYPT
MOROCCO
BELGIUM
IRAN
FRANCE
IDRC
AUSTRIA
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL
UNDP
GM-UNCCD
INRA-INRAT
GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST
MAURITANIA
CHINA
THE OPEC FUND
UNESCO
SOUTH AFRICA
UNEP
INDIA
JIRCAS
TURKEY