Enhancing Sustainability and Fodder Production of Low Land Pastures through integrated Alley Cropping and Conservation Agriculture in Arid Agro-Pastoral Ecosystems in Jordan, Yemen and Tunisia

ABOUT US

Its a two year project funded by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) aiming at sustainable development of lowland pastures in Tunisia, Jordan, and Yemen was initiated in September 2014. Its overall goal is to improve the livelihood of the agro-pastoral communities through sustainable use of integrated conservation agriculture technologies and alley cropping systems that enhance the productivity of lowlands in the arid and semi-arid rangelands.

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Period of Implementation

Sep 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2016

Total Budget

USD 150,000.00

Project team

Mounir Louhaichi

ICARDA

Dr. Mounir Louhaichi has more than 25 years of experience in... see more

Ruth Musengy'a Mawia

ICARDA

While currently pursuing an MSc program in Agricultural &... see more

Partners

Agricultural Research and Extension Authority - AREA

Office of Livestock and Pasture Authority - OEP

Arid Regions Institute - IRA

The Hashemite Fund for Development of Jordan Badia - HFDJB

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDA

University of Tennessee

Donors

OPEC Fund for International Development - OFID

OUR IMPACT

Goals

Goal is to ensure sustainable development of lowland pastures in beneficiary countries to enhance their land & crop productivity

Objectives

To develop and disseminate a sustainable framework for managing lowlands of the arid and semi-arid rangeland areas of Jordan, Tunisia, and Yemen that enhance the productivity (provide additional feed and food), while conserving the environment and biodiversity

Problems and Needs Analysis

Land degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change, food security, gap in feed availability for livestock

Intervention Strategy(ies)

The project seeks innovative methods for tne development of integrated crop/livestock production in arid and semiarid areas. Special emphasis is attributed to the adoption of proper and efficient techniques for conservation agriculture, alley cropping, dual purpose crops, shrub plantations and grazing management. Promising strategy is to achieve land degradation neutrality by ensuring minimal soil disturbance, crop/livestock residue retention and crop rotation.

Impact Pathway

This project is enhancing sustainability and fodder production of low land pastures in Arab countries (Yemen, Jordan and Tunisia) through designing a sustainable framework for degraded sites which will ensure conservation of biodiversity and environment. Project will identify and test alternative technical packages for selective lowland areas to improve management of landscape depressions in pastoral ecosystems, this will contribute to CGIAR strategic goals i.e. increased resilience of the poor to climate change & other shocks (1.1), enhanced national capital & protected especially from climate change (3.1) and more sustainably managed agro-ecosystems (3.3). Last bu not least, Trainings/workshops for NARS collaborators will enhance their institutional capacity(D 1.1.)

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