{"id":1897,"date":"2022-07-15T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annual-report.icarda.org\/2021\/?page_id=1897"},"modified":"2023-10-04T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:04:41","slug":"livelihoods-in-detail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annual-report.icarda.org\/2021\/livelihoods-in-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Rural Livelihoods In Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Improving RuraL Livelihoods in detail\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ensuring our vision of thriving and resilient dryland livelihoods becomes a reality<\/b><\/h3>

ICARDA\u2019s Social, Economy, and Policies (SEP) research team, led by Dr Barbara Ann Rischkowsky, is responsible for studying our innovations\u2019 socioeconomic feasibility, adoption, and scaling up, as well as their effect on poverty reduction, food security, system resilience, and social inclusion. The team\u2019s methods include socioeconomic assessments, gender transformational techniques, and context-sensitive targeting. Its solutions aim to achieve more equitable marketplaces and value chains, improved natural resource management and governance, and the optimization of sustainable land and livestock management alternatives.<\/p>

Significant\u202f 2020 \u202fdevelopments in our work on improving rural livelihoods were:<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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ICARDA\u2019s ICT2Scale project<\/a>, funded by the German Agency for International Cooperation and led by Mr. Udo Rudiger<\/a> and Dr. Boubaker Dhehibi<\/a>, uses cell phone-based services to offer extension services to smallholder farmers in Tunisia. In 2021, 50\u00a0percent of participating farmers learned new technologies and received further information, and 40\u00a0percent stated that they were willing to pay to receive technical information via SMS. ICARDA\u2019s national partners are now building on this work and making it their own.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In 2021, Egyptian wheat growers who adopted ICARDA\u2019s raised-bed technology<\/a> through a project led by Dr Beziat Dessalegn, benefited from a 937\u00a0kilogram per hectare (12.8\u00a0percent) increase in yield, a US$77.60 per hectare (9.5\u00a0percent) increase in gross margins, an 824.6\u00a0cubic meters per hectare (15.1\u00a0percent) reduction in irrigation water application, a 16.7\u00a0percent reduction in seeding rate, a 5.6\u00a0percent increase in water productivity, and an 11.8\u00a0percent reduction in downside yield risk.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Jordanian Badia is the region of desert and steppe covering the country\u2019s northeast. In this challenging environment, Dr. Boubaker Dhehibi<\/a>, in collaboration with Jordan\u2019s National Agricultural Research Center, implemented permaculture technology<\/a> as a new low-cost development tool for managing dryland resources in ago-pastoral farming systems. The bene\ufb01ts associated with permaculture include high yields and increased savings from reduced inputs. Investing in permaculture could make dryland resources more efficient, diverse, and multifunctional for food and nutrition-insecure agro-pastoral communities.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Under a project entitled \u2018Services to support the seed multiplication sector in Syria for the season 2020\/2021,\u2019 under the \u2018FAO Syria Smallholder Support Programme (SSP) for Agriculture Transformation\u2019, small holder farmers in areas affected by civil unrest were supported to become community-based seed suppliers. The farmers, from Aleppo, Homs, and Deir Azor were given quality wheat, barley, chickpea, and lentil seed to engage in farmer-based seed production. They were also provided with inputs, extension services, and training on community-based seed production and commercialization business management. They produced and commercialized a total of 244.4\u00a0tons of seed. They generated an income of SYP300,344,906 (US$240,280) under an Arab Fund for Economics and social Development funded project, 12.8\u00a0tons of seed of 47 crop varieties, and five seed cleaners were provided to support the seed sector in Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In Palestine, ICARDA partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO) to test and out-scale in-situ water harvesting approaches. ICARDA will implement water productivity improvements at the watershed level and support the scaling of in-situ water harvesting for improved agroforestry and orchard agriculture. ICARDA will also support capacity building and empowerment activities for targeted communities.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In 2021, within the framework of the Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP), led by Dr. Abdoul Aziz Niane<\/a> and funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, ICARDA distributed 10,000 ultra-low-pressure dripper units to six APRP member countries. The energy-saving, solar-power-compatible dripper technology fosters desert farming.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In Ethiopia, the ICARDA-coordinated \u2018Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Wheat Compact\u2019<\/a> produced a total of 27,543\u00a0tons of basic seed, certified seed, and quality declared seed in the 2020\/2021 growing season. The seed was produced in partnership with the Ethiopian National Agriculture Research System, public\/private seed companies, and cooperatives. The TAAT Wheat Compact was funded by the African Development Bank<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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An economic impact assessment has found that ICARDA-improved lentil technologies have contributed significantly to a massive productivity gain in West Bengal<\/a>, with a registered lentil yield of over one ton per hectare in the state, a 33.36\u00a0percent increase over traditional lentil growers. Overall livelihood status of the lentil farm-family has increased, and ICARDA has established long-term sustainability of food legumes in West Bengal.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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