Sustainable use and management of scarce water and land resources

Focus: Enhance water and land productivity in key non- tropical dry area agro-ecologies (rainfed, irrigated, and agro-pastoral). Water resources are the most limiting component of agricultural production in dry areas. ICARDA will therefore continue to improve agricultural water productivity and, in collaboration with our sister center the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and others, develop its framework further for wider adoption. Core to the research effort of SRP5 is enhancing and restoring the provisioning, regulating, and supporting ecosystem services in dry areas. SRP5 will build upon past achievements, which range from rainwater harvesting using landscape modification to supplemental and deficit irrigation. We will take a more integrated approach to managing soil, land, and water resources across the extensive rangelands of non-tropical dry areas through links with the rangeland, livestock, and value chain expertise embedded in the Center. Further, with partner ARIs we will investigate alternative opportunities to diversify the livelihoods of the communities in rangelands, for example in renewable energy.
ICARDA Strategic Plan 2017 - 2026: https://dx.doi.org/20.500.11766/8237

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Raw data for rangeland vegetation sampling of Central Asia rangelands Apr 17, 2026 Rajabov, Toshpulat; Clifton, Kathryn; Shaumarov, Makhmud; Louhaichi, Mounir, 2015, "Raw data for rangeland vegetation sampling of Central Asia rangelands", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/YXFYLD, MELDATA, V16 The datasets holds data about rangeland vegetation sampling that was conducted during the spring of 2015 in Karakalpakstan using transect sampling to understand the grazing impact in different land tenure regimes. The collected data includes vegetation density, biomass, species c...
The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Biomass Rehabilitation in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017 Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2017, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Biomass Rehabilitation in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/IKPUUB, MELDATA, V20 Field visits were carried out during March 2017 and allowed to identify and classify the sites subjected to rest according to the land tenure system and age of the implementation of the technique. During these visits, the main plant communities of the protected rangeland as well...
The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Density in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017 Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2017, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Density in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/X9IYIU, MELDATA, V19 In southern Tunisia, rangelands are overexploited because the animal needs highly exceed plant production. For most of the skeletal desert soil, the overall vegetation covering oscillates between 1 and 10%; the perennial aerial biomass is lower than 100 kg of dry matter (DM)/ha/y...
Al Badia Project: Al badia community survey 2: Rangeland Communities Apr 17, 2026 Dutilly-Diane, Celine; Tiedeman, James; Louhaichi, Mounir; Ghassali, Fahim; Battikha, Nabil, 2004, "Al Badia Project: Al badia community survey 2: Rangeland Communities", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/KSU7WM, MELDATA, V18 The dataset contains the results of a survey on Community Rangeland Management conducted in Syria in 2005, specifically rangeland field verification data collected at community level. ICARDA, in collaboration with the Steppe Directorate of Syria and the Badia Rehabilitation Proje...
Al Badia Project: Al Badia community survey 2: Rangeland Sites Apr 17, 2026 Dutilly-Diane, Celine; Tiedeman, James; Louhaichi, Mounir; Ghassali, Fahim; Battikha, Nabil, 2006, "Al Badia Project: Al Badia community survey 2: Rangeland Sites", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/TVNQJU, MELDATA, V18 The dataset contains the results of a survey on Community Rangeland Management conducted in Syria in 2005, specifically rangeland field verification data collected at site and transect level. ICARDA, in collaboration with the Steppe Directorate of Syria and the Badia Rehabilitati...
The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Cover and Species Composition in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2019, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Cover and Species Composition in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/ZAJDIV, MELDATA, V19 In southern Tunisia, rangelands are overexploited because the animal needs highly exceed plant production. For most of the skeletal desert soil, the overall vegetation covering oscillates between 1 and 10%; the perennial aerial biomass is lower than 100 kg of dry matter (DM)/ha/y...
Perceptions of Farmers about the Potential Adoption of Spineless Cactus in Livestock Feed, India Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Kumar, Suresh; Tiwari, Sunil; Hassan, Sawsan; Yadav, Om Parkash; Dayal, Devi; Moyo, Hloniphani; Dev, Rahul; Sarker, Ashutosh, 2019, "Perceptions of Farmers about the Potential Adoption of Spineless Cactus in Livestock Feed, India", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/UYPZUO, MELDATA, V19 Livestock production in arid and semi-arid regions is facing the challenges of low and erratic rainfall, poor nutrient soils, and high temperatures, which all contribute to inadequate forage production to support livestock. Under these challenging conditions, promoting forage spe...
The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Mountain Rangelands, Tajikistan Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Moyo, Hloniphani; Hassan, Sawsan, 2019, "The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Mountain Rangelands, Tajikistan", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/AFAJPH, MELDATA, V22 The dataset reports on information collected to investigate the response of grazed vegetation in relation to landscape type in the mountain rangelands of Tajikistan over two seasons in 2016 (autumn and spring). Slopes facing the north and south, and grazed during different season...
OFID household survey on landscape depressions Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Hassan, Sawsan; Clifton, Kathryn; Werner, Jutta, 2015, "OFID household survey on landscape depressions", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/8ELQDS, MELDATA, V18 The dataset contains the results of a survey with the purpose to compare practices like barley cultivation in the depressions and improved rangeland in Badia in terms of economic viability in the long term. The survey is part a of a research working on a solution to the land degr...
The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Flat Rangelands, Uzbekistan Apr 17, 2026 Louhaichi, Mounir; Moyo, Hloniphani; Hassan, Sawsan, 2019, "The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Flat Rangelands, Uzbekistan", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/L7XSN8, MELDATA, V24 The dataset describes the information collected on the response of grazed vegetation in relation to landscape type in the flat rangelands of Uzbekistan over two seasons in 2016 (autumn and spring). We used a grazing gradient approach as a main tool to detect fine-scale changes in...

Raw data for rangeland vegetation sampling of Central Asia rangelands

Apr 17, 2026

Rajabov, Toshpulat; Clifton, Kathryn; Shaumarov, Makhmud; Louhaichi, Mounir, 2015, "Raw data for rangeland vegetation sampling of Central Asia rangelands", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/YXFYLD, MELDATA, V16

The datasets holds data about rangeland vegetation sampling that was conducted during the spring of 2015 in Karakalpakstan using transect sampling to understand the grazing impact in different land tenure regimes. The collected data includes vegetation density, biomass, species c...

The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Biomass Rehabilitation in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2017, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Biomass Rehabilitation in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/IKPUUB, MELDATA, V20

Field visits were carried out during March 2017 and allowed to identify and classify the sites subjected to rest according to the land tenure system and age of the implementation of the technique. During these visits, the main plant communities of the protected rangeland as well...

The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Density in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2017, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Density in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring 2017", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/X9IYIU, MELDATA, V19

In southern Tunisia, rangelands are overexploited because the animal needs highly exceed plant production. For most of the skeletal desert soil, the overall vegetation covering oscillates between 1 and 10%; the perennial aerial biomass is lower than 100 kg of dry matter (DM)/ha/y...

Al Badia Project: Al badia community survey 2: Rangeland Communities

Apr 17, 2026

Dutilly-Diane, Celine; Tiedeman, James; Louhaichi, Mounir; Ghassali, Fahim; Battikha, Nabil, 2004, "Al Badia Project: Al badia community survey 2: Rangeland Communities", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/KSU7WM, MELDATA, V18

The dataset contains the results of a survey on Community Rangeland Management conducted in Syria in 2005, specifically rangeland field verification data collected at community level. ICARDA, in collaboration with the Steppe Directorate of Syria and the Badia Rehabilitation Proje...

Al Badia Project: Al Badia community survey 2: Rangeland Sites

Apr 17, 2026

Dutilly-Diane, Celine; Tiedeman, James; Louhaichi, Mounir; Ghassali, Fahim; Battikha, Nabil, 2006, "Al Badia Project: Al Badia community survey 2: Rangeland Sites", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/TVNQJU, MELDATA, V18

The dataset contains the results of a survey on Community Rangeland Management conducted in Syria in 2005, specifically rangeland field verification data collected at site and transect level. ICARDA, in collaboration with the Steppe Directorate of Syria and the Badia Rehabilitati...

The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Cover and Species Composition in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Ouled Belgacem, Azaiez; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Ben Salem, Farah, 2019, "The Relevance of Rest Periods in Rangeland Management for Plant Cover and Species Composition in Tataouine, Tunisia, Spring", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/ZAJDIV, MELDATA, V19

Perceptions of Farmers about the Potential Adoption of Spineless Cactus in Livestock Feed, India

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Kumar, Suresh; Tiwari, Sunil; Hassan, Sawsan; Yadav, Om Parkash; Dayal, Devi; Moyo, Hloniphani; Dev, Rahul; Sarker, Ashutosh, 2019, "Perceptions of Farmers about the Potential Adoption of Spineless Cactus in Livestock Feed, India", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/UYPZUO, MELDATA, V19

Livestock production in arid and semi-arid regions is facing the challenges of low and erratic rainfall, poor nutrient soils, and high temperatures, which all contribute to inadequate forage production to support livestock. Under these challenging conditions, promoting forage spe...

The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Mountain Rangelands, Tajikistan

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Moyo, Hloniphani; Hassan, Sawsan, 2019, "The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Mountain Rangelands, Tajikistan", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/AFAJPH, MELDATA, V22

The dataset reports on information collected to investigate the response of grazed vegetation in relation to landscape type in the mountain rangelands of Tajikistan over two seasons in 2016 (autumn and spring). Slopes facing the north and south, and grazed during different season...

OFID household survey on landscape depressions

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Hassan, Sawsan; Clifton, Kathryn; Werner, Jutta, 2015, "OFID household survey on landscape depressions", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/8ELQDS, MELDATA, V18

The dataset contains the results of a survey with the purpose to compare practices like barley cultivation in the depressions and improved rangeland in Badia in terms of economic viability in the long term. The survey is part a of a research working on a solution to the land degr...

The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Flat Rangelands, Uzbekistan

Apr 17, 2026

Louhaichi, Mounir; Moyo, Hloniphani; Hassan, Sawsan, 2019, "The Response of Grazed Vegetation in Relation to the Type of Landscape in the Flat Rangelands, Uzbekistan", https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/FK2/L7XSN8, MELDATA, V24

The dataset describes the information collected on the response of grazed vegetation in relation to landscape type in the flat rangelands of Uzbekistan over two seasons in 2016 (autumn and spring). We used a grazing gradient approach as a main tool to detect fine-scale changes in...

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