...The objective of this chapter is to illustrate the use of landraces in the barley breeding program at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), as an example of the contribution that landraces can make to increasing agricultural production, particularly...

...conservation. INTRODUCTION Substantial ex-silu collections of Lens germplasm already exist. The collection at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) alone comprises 7758 lentil landrace accessions from 64 countries and 475 wild Lens accessions from...

...a promising low-cost technique for reclaiming overgrazed and exhausted rangeland is being developed at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Syria. ICARDA scientists have developed a simple implement that slightly depresses the soil in double...

...This chapter documents tests of these assumptions using mostly data from the barley breeding programme at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), but also from other breeding programmes on different crops. It will be shown that these assumptions...

...genotypes cope with drought has been demonstrated empirically. Studies have particularly been carried out at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria by Ceccarelli and coworkers (Ceccarelli and Grando, 1996). They have consistently found that the best...

...worked on rural development issues in western Sudan, and in Syria with the farming systems programme at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). She has extensive professional experience in Africa having undertaken research, consultancy, training...

...were carried out by G. Gintzburger (INRA-CIRAD, France) whilst working (1997-99) as a range scientist at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria) and then (2000-2003) at the Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique...

...Resources and a medal at the NI Vavilov Centennial Celebration. In May 1997 the Harían Symposium was held at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria. It was titled "The Origins of Agriculture and Domestication of Crop Plants in the Near...

...activity. Affiliation at the time of this study: CIMMYT. Jan Valkoun is Head of the Genetic Resources Unit at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), located in Aleppo, Syria. He was born in Czechoslovakia and holds an MSc in Crop Production and Agronomy...

...classical example. In fact, the name faba bean is very recent, created by Canadian breeders and spread by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). In spite of its youth, it is largely used nowadays as a way to simplify so many synonymies for the same...