Small ruminant farming is the main rural occupation in mountain areas of Morocco. This activity subject to numerous pressures, including repeated climatic hazards that modify pastoral resource availability and trigger changes production systems. study aimed identify analyse utilisation resources acknowledged by farmers over past 40 years for small systems Central High Atlas region We hypothesis...

Adverse changes in rangeland vegetation can be considered as one of the criteria for land degradation. Some of these changes can be evaluated through monitoring the spatial changes of landscape parameters. This study aimed to investigate the landscape changes in Kezab rangelands of Yazd province, central Iran. Landsat satellite images of 1990, 2002, and 2013, and landscape metrics including Tot...

in other to evaluate grain yield, rate and effective grain filling period of four barley (hordeum vulgaris l.) cultivars in different planting dates, a factorial experiment based on a randomized complete block design was conducted in the islamic azad university of ardabil research station in 2009. the treatments applied were: three levels of different planting dates (september, 23; october, 16 ...