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Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa
Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a m
Tribes, state, and technology adoption in arid land management, Syria
Arid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are widely thought degraded.
Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators
Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators presents data on institutional developments, investments, & capacity in agricultural R&D.
Impact of land tenure and other socioeconomic factors on mountain terrace maintenance in Yemen
This paper describes the land property rights and tenure systems in the western escarpments of the Yemeni Highlands, and analyses the impact of land tenure arrangements and other socioeconomic factors on terrace maintenance.
International conference on agricultural growth, sustainable resource management, and poverty alleviation in the low rainfall areas of West Asia and North Africa
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