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Scaling out project outcomes requires a 'special chemistry' by International Livestock Research Institute

“…After a session of the the November 2010 Fodder Adoption Project (FAP) workshop in Laos, we recorded 'notes' of three world cafe hosts who collated cross-project lessons (from Ethiopia, Syria, and Vietnam) on three issues: Innovation approaches, feed assessment, and scaling out. …”
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Innovation approaches—Collective learning from the Fodder Adoption Project by Puskur, Ranjitha

“…After a session of the the November 2010 Fodder Adoption Project (FAP) workshop in Laos, we recorded 'notes' of three world cafe hosts who collated cross-project lessons (from Ethiopia, Syria, and Vietnam) on three issues: Innovation approaches, feed assessment, and scaling out. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Ninth Meeting, 3-7 February 1975: Draft Report by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…David Hopper, to establish the center as two inter-linked bodies in Lebanon and Syria. Other subjects addressed included post harvest technology, tropical fruits, CGIAR relationships with ICIPE, relations with national research institutions, CGIAR terminology and review procedures, WARDA, pesticides, the World Food Conference, aquaculture, water use and management, and IBPGR.…”
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Applications of Molecular Biology and Genomics to Genetic Enhancement of Crop Tolerance to Abiotic Stress : a Discussion Document by CGIAR Interim Science Council, Bennett, John, Gale, Michael, Uchimiya, Hirofumi

“…The discussions on abiotic stress genomics were initiated at TAC 80 in March 2000 at ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria. Under the agenda item Trends in Science: Implications for CGIAR, TAC discussed the opportunities offered by the new sciences in improving the relevance, quality and impact of research in the CGIAR. …”
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Towards a comprehensive documentation and use of Pistacia genetic diversity in Central and West Asia, North Africa and Europe: Report of the IPGRI Workshop, 14-17 December 1988, Ir... by Padulosi, S., Hadj-Hassan, A., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…This publication presents scientific results of the work carried out by leading Pistacia experts from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Italy, Greece and Spain. …”
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Estimates of genetic parameters and genetic trends for growth, reproduction, milk production and milk composition traits of Awassi sheep by Haile, Aynalem, Hilali, M. El-Dine, Hassen, H., Lobo, R.N.B., Rischkowsky, Barbara A.

“…Genetic parameters and genetic trends for growth, reproduction, milk production and composition traits were estimated for Syrian (S) and Turkish (T) Awassi sheep and their crosses maintained at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Tal Hadya station, Aleppo, Syria (now in Terbol station in Lebanon). The data were spread over 9 years. …”
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Report on “13th Arab Congress of Plant Protection”, Hammamet, Tunisia, 16-21 October 2022 by Kumari, Safaa

“…A total of 270 scientists and graduate students from Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Oman, UAE, Palestine, Mauritania and Saudi Arabia participated in this event. …”
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Epidemiology and management of legume and cereal viruses in Arab and Mediterranean regions by Kumari, Safaa, Najar, Asma, Nader, Asaad, Moukahel, Abdulrahman

“…Yield losses resulting from virus attack vary widely, from little, as in the case of Broad bean mottle virus in Tunisia and Morocco, to complete crop failure when conditions permit widespread virus infection at the vulnerable early plant growth stage, as with Faba bean necrotic yellows virus in Egypt and Syria. Cereal crops (wheat, barley and oat) in Arab and Mediterranean regions are also affected by viruses, mainly Barley yellow dwarf virus-PAV, and this virus is reported to occur at epidemic levels in only Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. …”
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Training Report on Water Accounting by Leh, Mansoor, Velpuri, Naga, Thilina, Prabath

“…The training was held in Cairo with 14 participants representing Engineers, researchers, ministry agents and Regional water resources and irrigation offices from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Syria and Sudan (Annex 1). The training aimed to build partners capacity on the innovation “Water Accounting Plus (WA+)” as a decision-support tool developed by IWMI and its partners IHE, FAO to enhance water resources management, water productivity while reducing trade-offs. …”
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Economics of the Arab awakening: From revolution to transformation and food security by Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Al-Riffai, Perrihan

“…Annual growth rates in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Sudan averaged more than 6 percent between 2005 and 2010; and Syria, Tunisia, and Libya grew at about 5 percent on average during the same period of time. …”
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Modelling to evaluate the water resource implications of planned infrastructure development in the Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia by Alemayehu, Tadesse, McCartney, Matthew P., Kebede, S.

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Technical Advisory Committee Fifty-Seventh Meeting, 15-21 March 1992: Report of the Meeting by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Report of TAC 57 held at ICARDA in Aleppo, Syria, March 15-21, 1992, Alex McCalla presiding. …”
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CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, Jakarta, Indonesia, May 20-24, 1996: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions by CGIAR Secretariat

“…President Suharto of Indonesia opened the meeting. Pakistan and Syria joined. The CGIAR agreed with a stakeholders group that TAC should become more strategic, and planned a system review to be overseen by a stakeholders committee. …”
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Characterization of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in Tunisia and Comparison with a Global Pathogen Population by Laribi, Marwa, Akhavan, Alireza, Ben M’Barek, Sarrah, Yahyaoui, Amor Hassine, Strelkov, Stephen E., Sassi, Khaled

“…Genetic diversity and the P. tritici-repentis population structure were explored further by examining 59 Tunisian isolates and 35 isolates from Algeria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Iran, and Syria using 24 simple sequence repeat markers. Average genetic diversity, overall gene flow, and percentage polymorphic loci were estimated as 0.58, 2.09, and 87%, respectively. …”
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2017 Global Hunger Index: The inequalities of hunger by von Grebmer, Klaus, Bernstein, Jill, Hossain, Naomi, Brown, Tracy, Prasai, Nilam, Yohannes, Yisehac, Patterson, Fraser, Sonntag, Andrea, Zimmerman, Sophia-Maria, Towey, Olive, Foley, Connell

“…In addition, 9 of the 13 countries that lack sufficient data for calculating 2017 GHI score << - including Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria - raise >> significant concern, and in fact may have some of the highest levels of hunger. …”
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An in situ approach to the conservation of temperate cereal crop wild relatives in the Mediterranean Basin and Asian centre of diversity by Phillips, Jade, Whitehouse, Katherine, Maxted, Nigel

“…The number one priority reserve is found within the Fertile Crescent region on the border of Israel, Syria and Jordan. This proposed reserve location contains 93 currently protected areas (i.e. …”
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Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture: Synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha,... by Pedrick, Clare

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Feed a key issue to manage livestock systems in transition by International Livestock Research Institute

“…After a session of the the November 2010 Fodder Adoption Project (FAP) workshop in Laos, we recorded 'notes' of three world cafe hosts who collated cross-project lessons (from Ethiopia, Syria, and Vietnam) on three issues: Innovation approaches, feed assessment, and scaling out. …”
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Tillage system and genotype effects on early vigor and water use in bread wheat in the Mediterranean region by Karrou M

“…To test this hypothesis, a field trial was conducted at ICARDA’s research station at Tel Hadya, Aleppo, Syria in 2008/2009 and 2011/2012. The treatments tested were “zero tillage vs. conventional tillage” and five genotypes of bread wheat. …”
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Identification of novel resistant sources for ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) in chickpea by Gayacharan , Upasana Rani, Sarvjeet, Singh, Ashwani, K. Basandrai, Virender, K. Rathee, Kuldeep, Tripathi, Neeta, Singh, Girish, P. Dixit, Jai, C. Rana, Sushil, Pandey, Ashok, Kumar, Kuldeep, Singh

“…The frequency of resistant and moderately resistant type accessions was comparatively higher in accessions originated from Southwest Asian countries particularly Iran and Syria than the accessions originated from Indian sub-continent. …”
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