Review of agriculture in the dry areas
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From the Director General


News from the Drylands
     -  ICARDA Celebrates Presentation Day 2005
     -  Afghanistan Minister of Agriculture Launches
        "Healing Wounds"

     -  President of Turkmenistan Lauds Collaboration
        with ICARDA

     -  Lentil Research Benefits Nepal's Farmers
     -  ICARDA Office Inaugurated in Pakistan
     -  New, Low-Neurotoxin Grass Pea Variety Breaks
        the Fear of Paralysis in EthiopiaI

     -  Remembering Prof. Dr Mervat El-Badawy

       And briefly...

Ties that Bind
       Collaboration with the European Commission

Special Report
       Father of the Green Revolution, Dr Norman Borlaug Visits ICARDA

Focus
     -  Helping Small Enterprises Capture the Livestock Products Market
        in West Asia and North Africa

     -  Livestock Production in Central Asia: Constraints and Opportunities
     -  Small Ruminant Breeds in West Asia and North Africa
     -  Improving Small Ruminant Health
     -  Expanding the Menu: Transforming By-products into Nutritious Feed
     -  The Challenge of Rangeland Degradation in WANA: Going Beyond Restoration
     -  Documenting the Impact: How Effective is Atriplex Alley Cropping
     -  More Yogurt, Please!
     -  The Potential of Partnership with the Jabbans of Syria

Investors in ICARDA, 2004

New Publications


ICARDA Caravan is published twice a year, in June and December, by ICARDA

Editor-in-Chief
Surendra Varma

Editors
Ronald Kayanja
Swathi Sridharan

ISSN 1025-0972
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