A5075661950- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Middle East Politics and Society
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Birzeit University
2015-2023
The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky fixation of major-effect "domestication genes." Characterization these genes plus recent improvements in generating novel alleles (e.g., by gene editing) have created great interest de novo new crops from wild species. While editing technologies may accelerate some genetic aspects domestication, we caution that should be understood an iterative process rather than a singular event. Changes human social...
Sainfoin ( Onobrychis spp.) is a perennial forage legume that also attracting attention as pulse with potential for human consumption. The dual use of sainfoin underpins diverse research and breeding programs focused on improving lines pulses, which driving the generation complex datasets describing high dimensional phenotypes in post-omics era. To ensure multiple user groups, example, breeders selecting those edible seed, can utilize these rich datasets, it necessary to develop common...
Societal Impact Statement Plant scientists around the planet are working to develop new perennial grains and learn how grow them in diverse agroecosystems. Perennial grain agriculture could accomplish long‐term sustainability by providing food for humans without degrading ecosystem processes on which productivity depends. However, more research is needed understand pursue system transformation that builds justice within human societies. We use a case study from Palestine explore why this...
Research has shown that rai-fed (Baʿlī) cultivation provides a resilient agroecological structure. Recent work in agroecology refined our understanding of agroecosystem resilience, but both temporal and geographical scales are often limited. Due to largely inaccessible dwindling water resources, an examination change at the scale landscape is required better understand how rainfed agroecosystems remain over extensive period time. Our article examines relationship between resilience face...
Climatic change will seriously impact Mediterranean areas. Palestine, which has given forth annual grain based agriculture, is particularly vulnerable its political and economic situation. Research needed to build climate adaptation resilience into agroecosystems within the same landscape that gave agriculture. A primary step in achieving develop polycultures composed of perennial crops protect rebuild soil. Our preliminary research shows agrobiodiversity genetic material for this deep...
At the turn of 20th century, agricultural experts in several countries assembled a new agro-scientific field: dryland farming. Their research practices concomitantly fashioned agro-ecological zone—the drylands—as site agronomic intervention. As part this effort, American scientists worked concert with colleagues emerging Zionist movement to investigate and crops Palestine neighboring regions, where nonirrigated or rainfed agriculture had long been practiced. In my larger manuscript project,...
In the early twentieth century, United States began to settle arid regions of West. At same time, agricultural experts around world started develop a new agroecological zone:...