TY  - BK
AU  - Solh,M.B.
AU  - Hailu Gebre-Mariam
AU  - Haddad,N.I.
TI  - Problem-solving regional networks on cool-season food legumes and cereals
SN  - 977-302-006-1
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cairo (Egypt)
PB  - ICARDA, , NVRSRP
KW  - Aphidoidea
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Barley
KW  - Chickpeas
KW  - Cicer arietinum
KW  - Drought
KW  - Faba beans
KW  - Hordeum vulgare
KW  - Lens culinaris
KW  - Rusts
KW  - Socioeconomic development
KW  - Soft wheat
KW  - Triticum durum
KW  - Vicia faba
KW  - Water use
KW  - Triticum aestivum
KW  - Hard wheat
KW  - Egypt
N2  - The Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program (NVRSRP) is an extension of the Nile Valley Regional Program (NVRP) which started as the Nile Valley Project (NVP) in 1979 to improve faba bean in Egypt and Sudan through regional cooperation among the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of these countries; donors; and ICARDA. In 1985 Ethiopia became a member of the project, and in 1988, NVP was expanded to become the NVRP on cool-season food legumes and cereals. Socioeconomic research is also included in addition to natural-resource management, which was added to the Egyptian componen in 1993. Years after the development of NVRP,  it became evident that more collaboration to address problems of common interest to the countries in the region was needed. Hence, the problem-solving Regional Networks Project emerged to strengthen basic and applied research on these problems through complementary research, and was initiated as a major component of NVRSRP in 1995, at which time, Yemen also joined the Program. The problem-solving Regional Networks Project, which is supported by the Netherlands Government, dwells on a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional approach for efficient utilization of expertise, human resources, and infrastructure in the member countries and ICARDA to address specific problems arising from biotic and abiotic constraints which may have enormous effects on the production of cool-season food legumes and cereals. The outcome of the research, which is directed towards finding solutions to overcome the damage caused by these stress and bridge gaps in scientific knowledge, feeds into the technology transfer stream of the overall project, NVRSRP. Each network is headed by a lead country based on its national scientist in that area. With the kind financial support of the Netherlands Government and the dedicated work of the scientists of the NARS of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen, intensitive work within the few years of the project's life has resulted in promising results. With the anticipated start of a new phase, it is hoped that welfare of the people of the region
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