Nineveh, once Iraq’s breadbasket, is becoming a dust bowl. Farmers, who came home after Islamic State fled, say they feel abandoned by their country’s leaders, joining a wave of popular anger over the slow pace of rebuilding from the war.

Développée dans les années 1970 par les biologistes australiens Bill Mollison et David Holmgren, la permaculture a vu sa popularité croître au Maroc, pays sujet à la sécheresse.

The RuMiT (Rural Migration in Tunisia) research addresses the determinants of migration and mobility, the patterns and types of rural youth outmigration and the impact of rural youth migration on rural livelihoods and societies in origin regions in Tunisia. The research used a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods,...

Social media networks are increasing in popularity and have been integrated into many aspects of daily life. Analysis of the ways in which individuals use social media is important for understanding social, cultural, and environmental issues. This study examines experiences of farmers’ market customers through their self-expression on social networks....

Le chômage des jeunes, particulièrement dans les zones rurales, est un problème que l’État tunisien cherche à résoudre depuis l’Indépendance. Il a ainsi mobilisé une partie des terres domaniales irriguées pour installer des jeunes. À Gaâfour, 98 jeunes agriculteurs ont reçu des lots irrigués de 2,5 ou 3,5 ha. Les résultats montrent...

Dans cet article, la pluriactivité décrit une situation dans laquelle un agriculteur n’est pas entièrement investi (en termes de force de travail et/ou de capital) dans les activités agricoles. La pluriactivité est parfois appelée agriculture à temps partiel, ou travail hors ferme (Mishra et Goodwin, 1997). L’article est divisé en 6...

The project aims to reduce food loss and waste through a value chain development approach, focusing on the post-harvest, marketing and processing stages and promoting value chains that are better organized, have a reduced impact on environment, inclusive of smallholders, better able to generate added value, providing increasing opportunities for...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) has joined forces with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to pilot a novel leadership program for Arab women scientists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.This pilot training course represents a significant milestone  to support Arab women scientists to become...

The conference will bring up local as well as international researchers, senior scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders from all over the world dealing with water resources management in arid lands. The conference will serve as a wide-ranging forum for exchange of innovative approaches and novel knowledge and experience in water...

Organized by the IsDB and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) under the title “Youth engagement in agriculture production: Developing technologies that appeal to youth to make farming an attractive career option”, the seminar looked at the challenges and problems facing rural young people and what should be done...

As the general theme for 42nd Annual Meeting of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB) is about “Youth”, the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and IsDB will co-organize a seminar titled Young Arab Women Scientists Leadership in MENA Region – Tamkeen. The seminar will highlight the outcomes of Phase-I...

Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity is a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. Farmers often have limited access to genetic resources. Not only do they need greater access to the genetic material in research stations and gene banks, they also need to collaborate with scientists who are willing...

The present study focuses on dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco, to explore how and to what extent the institutional environment has been enabling the development and performance of the cooperatives. The focus on dairy generates insights that are relevant for many countries, because it is a sector in which...

L’élevage constitue une composante indissociable des systèmes agraires oasiens. Par ses revenus complémentaires, les restitutions de matière organique aux sols et la fourniture d’une force de travail, il contribue à la sécurité alimentaire et à la résilience de ces systèmes. Toutefois, ces milieux arides ont subi récemment des changements profonds,...

Les relations entre le dromadaire et l’oasis relèvent d’une certaine ambiguïté car le dromadaire, animal du nomade par excellence, marque les territoires désertiques de sa mobilité alors que l’oasis est, par essence, un point d’attache. Si, au cours de l’histoire, le dromadaire ne pénétrait en ville que pour les étapes...

The current Tunisian Code on Forests that applies to the common rangelands does not reflect the complexity of the land tenure status of common rangelands nor does it effectively support the needs of these dryland communities. Furthermore, Tunisia lacks a national strategy of rangeland management and a functioning coordination between...

The Arab world is the largest food deficit region in the world due to the major challenges facing increasing food production despite the high potential to increase agriculture production in most Arab countries. In 2013 the Arab world imported 85.6 million tons of cereals compared to 65.3 million tons for...

Learning Journey on Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers in Lebanon, November 22-25, 2017. Urgenci, the international network of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers (LSPA) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

En Tunisie, les politiques de modernisation et de libéralisation mises en œuvre depuis l'Indépendance ont contribué à d'importants changements des conditions de pratique de l'agriculture et à une transformation des systèmes oasiens traditionnels. De nouvelles stratégies d'adaptations apparaissent – élevage, tourisme local, spécialisation des cultures, démarche de qualité –, renouvelant les...

The Project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA Countries” has been conceived and formulated to set the proper framework for implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability (SDG 6, Target 6.4). This Inception Workshop of the Project brings beneficiary countries and...