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Increasing water and land productivities under rainfed agriculture

Nearly 80 percent of seasonal crop areas in the Near East and North Africa Region are rainfed, a system whose water source is highly variable, insufficient to satisfy the crop water demand, and often exposed to drought. These conditions make farming in rainfed areas highly risky and unpredictable, with negative implications for farmers’ livelihood and national food security as well. Depending on the expected rainfall regime, there are two major farming practices that can be adopted to reduce the production uncertainty: Supplemental Irrigation (SI) and Conservation Agriculture (CA).

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Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Other organizations: International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Year: 2018
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Geographical coverage: Near East and North Africa
Type: Fact sheet
Content language: English
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