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The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (LIVESTOCK) provides research-based solutions to help smallholder farmers, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists transition to sustainable, resilient livelihoods and to productive enterprises that will help feed future generations.

In the Pakistani agricultural lands, as a consequence of the recent increased cropping intensities, the water demand has become higher, not only for private farmers but also for the small holders. Retrieving water from salinization sources is very expensive, and land becomes soon less fertile if not properly irrigated. There's a lack of regulations, data and there's a need for positive implications towards a long-term integrated management approach, among the decision-making stakeholders.

A collaborative program on Technology Transfer to enhance food security in Iran, to be implemented in four provinces of East Azerbaijan; Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Lorestan.

Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are not self-sufficient in production of wheat and barley which are the major staple food crops .The yield levels are low because of climate change impacts. The local landraces and their wild relatives offer an important gene pool as sources of adaptation and tolerance to many biotic and abiotic stresses. This project is about enhancing the capacitiy of National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to apply new genomic tools and technologies for crop improvement

As part of the ongoing Economics of Land Degradation initiative (www.eld-initiative.org) the proposal aims to value current land use strategies and feasible alternatives in economic-terms, in order to promote more sustainable land management that is also in line with national development goals.

In the agricultural Indian sector, there has been evidence of a lack of pulse's production. Even though in India, and particularly in the Odisha region, there is a huge potential of producing pulses, there are still deficiencies. To meet the gap, the State imports pulses as pulses are a significant source of protein and India accounts for 33 % of the world area under pulse crops. Since prices are getting higher, a coordinated scientific approach is needed to enhance sustainable pulse production. This project intends to improve the pulses scenario in the State given the low State productivity (509 kg/ha compared to the national average yield of 764 kg/ha), the inadequate pulses production in Odisha (total production of 1.06 million tons and a deficit of 0.22 million tons), and the low per capita pulses consumption leading to protein/vitamin mineral malnutrition (PVMM) mostly in women, children and girls.

The project aims at alleviating the three main constraints of the adoption of improved agricultural technologies, namely poor information transfer mechanisms, lack of advisory systems and financial services, and unavailability of timely and adequate inputs. This should enhance wide adoption of sustainable and productive farming practices and hence reduce poverty and increase national food security in Ethiopia.