Agriculture has always been an important sector of the Cypriot economy. Following the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the occupation of 38 percent of the country’s territory, including Cyprus' most valuable land and water resources, an accelerated declining trend set in, which is still continuing today. Also, due to the...

During the early nineties the Cyprus government chose the technology of offshore cage culture to develop marine aquaculture, due to the already high exploitation of coastal land by tourism, concerns for environmental issues and the lack of sheltered inland sea sites. Currently there are 8 privately owned commercial sea cage...

The International Center for Agricultural Research for the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is located in Syria. Its headquarters are in Tel Hadya, a 948 ha farm 30 km south of Aleppo. ICARDA was founded in 1977 and had its administrative headquarters in Beirut until all offices were moved to Tel Hadya...