Analysis of resilient cereal species and agricultural practices for resilient farming
Year: 2026
Type: report
Abstract: This report aims to provide the basic agronomic knowledge on the three cereal species (durum wheat, bread wheat and barley) in terms of adaptability to a particular environment/threat/stressor, especially to semi-arid environments, like MENA countries, and the good agricultural practices necessary to represent the ground truth of the resilient farming system. In particular, the best-performing varieties/landraces for each species are inspected, by considering a specific environment/year or a combination of different environments. Together with this information, the analysis of meteorological data retrieved from MENA regions in a long period (2014-2022), together with those from Italian regions whose climate conditions are very similar to those of the MENA regions, has been carried out according to a very long period of thirty years. These data could be helpful to put in relation to climate conditions and production. Finally, the list of good agricultural practices (GAPs) will be given as recommendations, especially for countries like Egypt and Turkey, characterised by a more structured agriculture than other MENA countries.
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7130549255