Search Results - "Iraq"

SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa: Longitudinal Trend Analysis by Post, Lori Ann, Marogi, Emily, Moss, Charles B., Murphy, Robert Leo, Ison, Michael G., Resnick, Danielle

“…In order of most to least number of cumulative deaths since January 2020, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia have 30,375, 10,254, 6,120, and 5,185 respectively. …”
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The maternal origin of indigenous domestic chicken from the Middle East, the north and the horn of Africa by Al-Jumaili, A.S., Boudali, S.F., Kebede, A., Al-Bayatti, S.A., Essa, A.A., Ahbara, A., Aljumaah, R.S., Alatiyat, R.M., Mwacharo, Joram M., Bjørnstad, G., Naqvi, A.N., Gaouar, S.B.S., Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…In this paper, using theD-loop of mitochondrial DNA as a maternally inherited genetic marker, we address the question of the origin and dispersal routes of domestic chicken of the Middle East (Iraq and Saudi Arabia), the northern part of the African continent (Algeria and Libya) and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia).The analysis of the mtDNAD-loop of 706 chicken samples from Iraq (n = 107), Saudi Arabia (n = 185), Algeria (n = 88), Libya (n = 23), Ethiopia (n = 211) and Pakistan (n = 92) show the presence of five haplogroups (A, B, C, D and E), suggesting more than one maternal origin for the studied populations. …”
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Arab Spatial Development and Food Security Atlas by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The main objective of Arab Spatial is to improve access to quality data and to support decision and policy making for a food-secure Arab world, covering the 22 member countries of the Arab League of Nations from Mauritania and Morocco in the West to Iraq and Oman in the East. Among the special features of Arab Spatial is the focus on the linkages between food security and development and the combination of indicators at the national, subnational, and pixel levels, often available as time-series data.…”
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Food security, poverty, and economic policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Lofgren, Hans, Richards, Alan

“…In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. 25% of the MENA population may be poor and 7% undernourished. …”
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A consultancy report on evidence based research on salinity management, technologies, and management strategies in context to salinity in Egypt by Sharma, Prabodh

“…Countries predominantly affected by land salinization include Argentina, Australia, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, the former Soviet Union, and the USA.…”
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International conference on agricultural growth, sustainable resource management, and poverty alleviation in the low rainfall areas of West Asia and North Africa by Oram, Peter, Hazell, Peter B. R., Nordblom, Thomas, Chaherli, Nabil, Ngaido, Tidiane

“…An international conference was held in Amman, Jordan in September 1997 to examine mounting problems of poverty and environmental degradation in the low rainfall areas (LRAs) of the eight Mashreq and Maghreb countries of West Asia and North Africa (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria from the Mashreq region, and Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia from the Maghreb), and to seek solutions which reconcile economic growth with equity and environmental conservation -- the 3 E's of sustainable development. …”
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Gender: Promoting equality in fragile and conflict-affected settings by Malapit, Hazel J., Brown, Lynn R.

“…Yemen, Afghanistan, Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Central African Republic — all of which are considered extremely fragile and are affected by conflict (except Pakistan) — score the lowest on the Gender Development Index. …”
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The usefulness of maternally inherited genetic markers for phylogeographic studies in village chicken by Al-Jumaili, A.S., Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…We studied 243 full mtDNA sequences from three countries (Iraq, n = 27; Ethiopia, n = 211; and Saudi Arabia, n = 5) and a 13-kb fragment of the W chromosome from 20 Iraqi and 137 Ethiopian female chickens. …”
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Prospects for agricultural production and food deficits in West Asia and North Africa: the role of high-elevation areas by Oram, Peter

“…A main objective of the meeting was to look at the technical potential for improving the productivity of cereals and food legumes in the high elevation areas that compose almost half of the agricultural land of the main producing countries of West Asia and North Africa (Algeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Yemen Arab Republic), as well as important areas of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Mongolia, and China. …”
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Feminiseringen av veterinäryrket ur ett internationellt perspektiv by Gullberg, Vendela

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Genome analysis reveals genetic admixture and signature of selection for productivity and environmental traits in Iraqi cattle by Alshawi, A., Essa, A., Al-Bayatti, S., Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…Among these, the Jenoubi is found in the southern more humid part of Iraq, while the Rustaqi is found in the middle and drier region of the country. …”
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Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resources for CGIAR Scientists and Partners from Near East and Neighbouring Countries, 17 - 20 September 2018, ICARDA, Beirut, Lebanon by CGIAR Genebank Platform

“…This event brought together 20 staff members from 6 CGIAR Centres (including genebank managers and technical staff, plant breeders, senior scientists, legal counselor and genetic resources policy specialists), 16 representatives of national agricultural research organizations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, and representatives of the Secretariats of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the coordination team of the Global Project on Access and Benefit Sharing of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). …”
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Diversity of endogenous avian leukosis virus subgroup E (ALVE) insertions in indigenous chickens by Mason, A.S., Miedzinska, K., Kebede, A., Bamidele, Oladeji, Al-Jumaili, A.S., Dessie, Tadelle, Hanotte, Olivier H., Smith, J.

“…The wider diversity of ALVE in non-commercial chickens and the role of these elements in ERV-derived immunity (EDI) are yet to be investigated.In total, 974 different ALVE were identified from 407 chickens sampled from village populations in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Nigeria, using the recently developed obsERVer bioinformatics identification pipeline. …”
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Food policies and their implications on overweight and obesity trends in selected countries in the Near East and North Africa region by Abay, Kibrom A., Ibrahim, Hosam, Breisinger, Clemens, Bayasgalanbat, Nomindelger

“…We examine the evolution of trade (food) policies, food systems, and body weight outcomes across selected countries in the NENA region – Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. In particular, we investigate the implications of important trade (food) policies in shaping diets and food systems as well as their implications on public health outcomes, mainly the rising levels of overweight and obesity in the NENA region. …”
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The Role of ICARDA’s Germplasm Health Unit (GHU) in Improving Plant Health and Safeguarding the Biodiversity of Legume and Cereal Crops by Kumari, Safaa, Moukahel, Abdulrahman, El Miziani, Inaam, Darwish, Iman

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Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for detection and characterization of Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV) in legumes applied by ICARDA’s GHU by Kumari, Safaa, Moukahel, Abdulrahman

“…A high incidence, up to 100%, has been noted in some regions of Egypt, Iraq and Sudan. BYMV is transmitted through seeds of most pulses, including faba beans, field peas, lentils, and lupins and through seed of several forage legumes and clovers. …”
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Diagnostic Tools Applied by ICARDA’s Germplasm Health Unit (GHU) for Detection of Pests and Diseases Transmitted via Legume and Cereal Seeds by Kumari, Safaa, Moukahel, Abdulrahman, El Miziani, Inaam, Darwish, Iman

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Bacterial leaf blight disease of wheat (Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae) in Syria: importance, characterization, and spread by Abo Bakr, Abdo, Kassem, Mohammad, Kumari, Safaa, Khatib, Fateh, Husien, Naiem, Nader, Asaad, Moukahel, Abdulrahman

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Worldwide evaluations of quinoa: preliminary results from post International Year of Quinoa FAO projects in nine countries by Bazile, Didier, Pulvento, C., Verniau, A., Al Nusairi, M., Ba, D., Breidy, J., Hassan, L., Mohammed, M.I., Mambetov, O., Otambekova, M., Sepahvand, N., Shams, A., Souici, D., Miri, K., Padulosi, S.

“…Field evaluations were conducted during 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 in Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan), and the Near East and North African countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Yemen). In each country, the trials were carried out in different locations that globally represent the diversity of 19 agrarian systems under different agro-ecological conditions. …”
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Microsatellite marker-based genetic diversity analysis and developing synthetic varieties in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) by Amanov, Maksatbek

“…The introduction of new alfalfa genetic material from countries such as Argentina, Oman, Australia, Iran, Iraq and Norway into Kyrgyzstan is a great opportunity to increase genetic variation in the alfalfa gene pool in the country.…”