ABOUT US

The proposed TRACE Rehab project aims to combat the ongoing degradation and desertification of Jordan’s dry rangelands (the Badia) and to re-vitalize these depleted agro-pastures essential to the rural population depending on a livestock-based agricultural system. In the long term, the project will contribute to securing community livelihoods and the Bedouin tribal heritage of the country.

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Period of Implementation

Mar 26, 2019 - Jun 30, 2021
Total Budget

USD 10,000.00

OUR IMPACT

Goals

Thriving dry rangelands (Badia) provide water, food and resilient livelihoods to its host communities in a large scale nutrient-cycle context.

Objectives

1) achieving resilience and nutrient enhancement of degraded rangelands (Badia) to vitalize an essential natural resource base serving Jordan’s rural livestock-based agricultural system, and 2) recycling of communal wastewater treatment by-product and providing a solution for upcoming storage issues.

Problems and Needs Analysis

The overall concept of the proposed pilot activity is the integrated and locally adopted knowledge generation through the merger of innovative science with local community inclusion and feedback, packaged with - and for - Jordanian governmental institutes. A combination of novel science and experiments within a community participatory approach will strive towards filling the existing knowledge gaps on adaptability and environmental impacts of the application of processed sludge in Jordan’s agro-pastures. This will be achieved through the strong science consortium established, which consists of an ICARDA, the Jordanian NARC and a well-acknowledged local university (BAU). The consortium will share efforts, and participate in an active exchange of experts, students and local community members from the target area.

Impact Pathway

The study strives to achieve two outcomes. First, that nutrient-enriched agro-pastures (pilot to small watershed scale) have increased soil fertility, land productivity and better withstand degradation for the benefit of the local livestock farmers, which are identified as downstream end-users. And second that collaborating wastewater treatment centers operate with reduced storage burden and resource loss through recycling of fertile processed sludge.

WHERE WE WORK

Agricultural research and ICARDA conclude rangeland land rehabilitation project

Author(s): Jafar Al Widyan | Mira Haddad

Date: 2021-06-26 | Type: Blog

Water and soil dynamics

Author(s): Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2021-06-24 | Type: Presentation

Socio Economic Component: Achievements, Findings, Implications, and Way Forward

Author(s): Boubaker Dhehibi | Masnat El-Hiary

Date: 2021-06-24 | Type: Presentation

Soil Organic Carbon Analysis

Author(s): Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier | Hazem Hasan

Date: 2021-02-21 | Type: Dataset - Sub-type(s): Other (SOC)

Site selection criteria for mechanized micro water harvesting techniques

Author(s): Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2021-02-16 | Type: Report - Sub-type(s): Internal Report

Datasets for Farmers' Attitudes Towards Treated Sludge (Biosolids) use in Agriculture: Evidence from Jordanian Badia

Author(s): Masnat El-Hiary | Boubaker Dhehibi | Ala Awaideh | Omamah Taysir Taher Hadidi | Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2021-01-26 | Type: Dataset - Sub-type(s): Socio-Economic Survey Data

Farmers' Attitudes Towards Treated Sludge (Biosolids) use in Agriculture: Evidence from Jordanian Badia

Author(s): Masnat El-Hiary | Boubaker Dhehibi | Ala Awaideh | Omamah Taysir Taher Hadidi | Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2021-01-26 | Type: Report - Sub-type(s): Internal Report

Focus Group Discussion Report Farmers' Attitudes Towards Biosolids use in Agriculture: Evidence from Jordanian Badia

Author(s): Masnat El-Hiary | Omama Al Hadidi | Boubaker Dhehibi | Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2020-09-20 | Type: Report

Results of the Socio Economic Component: Achievements, Findings, Implications, and Way Forward

Author(s): Boubaker Dhehibi | Masnat El-Hiary

Date: 2020-07-23 | Type: Presentation

Socio Economic Survey Questionnaire Instrument - Farmers' Attitudes Towards Treated Sludge (Biosolids) use in Agriculture: Evidence from Jordanian Badia

Author(s): Masnat El-Hiary | Boubaker Dhehibi | Mira Haddad | Stefan Strohmeier

Date: 2020-05-15 | Type: Template

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