ICARDA is an international organization undertaking research for development. We provide innovative, science-based solutions for countries across the non-tropical dry areas. Our research aims to reduce poverty and enhance food, water, and nutritional security and environmental health, in the face of global challenges, including climate change.
The project has been designed to combine an adaptive research program, including integrated capacity development, with the active development of a delivery mechanism for CLCA systems to serve as impact accelerators in both targeted regions. The adaptive research component will include a subcomponent, which involves extensive socioeconomic and market data collection to be used for optimizing adapted CLCA packages for different agroecologies and socioeconomic contexts. (IFAD ID# 2000001630)
Dr. Aymen Frija is an agricultural economist with ICARDA’s Social, Economic and Policy Research Program. His current research interests focus on farm modeling, farm efficiency and productivity analysis, agricultural water management instruments, institutional performance analysis, and the economics of conservation agriculture.
Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, specializing in agricultural water policy analysis in developing countries. He was also assistant professor and researcher at the College of Agriculture of Mograne, Carthage University in Tunisia.
Dr. Frija is the author of more than 50 publications. He is an active member of several scientific and professional associations, such as the African Association of Agricultural Economists and the Tunisian Association of Water and Environment. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Ghent University in Belgium.
Zied Idoudi is an
Agricultural Economist Engineer with professional expertise in conservation
agriculture; agroecology; rural livelihoods assessment; agricultural innovation
systems, monitoring and evaluation; knowledge management and communication. For
the past six years, he has been involved in different Agricultural Research for
Development Projects dealing with Diversification and Sustainable Intensification of Production Systems. He is currently a Technology
Scaling Specialist (TSS) at ICARDA-Tunisia.
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Claudio Zucca is a soil conservation and land management specialist with ICARDA, based in Rabat, Morocco. His area of research is sustainable land management, soil and water conservation, and land degradation. His research approach is based on interdisciplinary and multi-scale methods that integrate fieldwork and geomatics. He is interested in soil-genetic processes and soil geography and has performed basic and applied research in pedology, contributing to several soil survey and mapping studies.
Currently, Dr. Zucca leads research on soil carbon sequestration and the effects of bioavailable silicon on water use by crops in collaboration with crop breeders and plant physiologists. He also leads ICARDA’s work on soil and water conservation in the savannah belt of Nigeria and integrated watershed management in Ethiopia and Tunisia, and co-leads the scaling of sustainable land management practices and land degradation neutrality.
He serves as focal point for the international consortium on global soil partnership and world overview of conservation approaches and technologies. He is on the UN international roster of experts for combating desertification and serves on the editorial board of World Desertification Atlas. He has authored more than 40 journal publications.
Before joining ICARDA in 2015, he was senior researcher and associate professor at the University of Sassari in Italy, where he spent 15 years conducting drylands research. Zucca received his Ph.D. in Pedology and a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the Universities of Palermo and Milano Bicocca.
Udo Rudiger joined ICARDA’s Tunisia office in 2016 as a CIM expert and innovation specialist, with more than 25 years-experience in development. Rudiger previously worked for the German Development Service in West Africa, and from 2006 until 2015 supported agricultural value chain projects for the International Fertilizer Development Center in Togo and Rwanda. He studied international agriculture at the University of Witzenhausen in Germany, receiving his master’s degree in 1989.
To sustainably increase production and enhance climate resilience of small farmers’ communities and their crop-livestock production systems in drylands.
To develop local adaptable soil conservation and water use efficiency technologies as well as forage crops and biomass management practices for different CLCA systems in the drylands using agroecological principles and participatory action research approaches.
The main target groups directly reached by the project are 3,000 households of small crop-livestock producers in NA and LAC regions whose livelihoods are dependent on crop production and livestock of which 70% will adopt CLCA farming systems with increased production and improved cost-benefits compared to conventional systems. Considering that CL systems form the basis of the livelihoods of two-thirds of the population in developing countries (Herrero et al., 2010), there is a good potential for upscaling of the project’s results. Through the support to innovation systems supporting adoption, the involvement of NARES and linking to IFAD investment projects, the spill-overs are expected to reach 20,000 households, who will indirectly benefit from the project.
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