TY - JOUR
AU1 - Kassam, A.
AB - CHAPTER 1 CLIMATE, SOIL AND LAND RESOURCES IN NORTH AFRICA AND WEST ASIA A. H. KASSAM Swinscoe, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England The international institutes concerned with agricultural research appreciate the need for inventories of physical resources relevant to the use of land for crop production. Such inventories can be used to plan research programmes and in the interpretation of records from the field. This paper reviews the climatic and soil resources in the region served by ICARDA within which the term 'Mediter- ranean' has been applied to a wide range of environments.* In North Africa the countries covered are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan and Egypt; in West Asia, they are Jordan, Saudi Arabia, People's De- mocratic Republic of Yemen, Yemen Arab Republic, Oman, United Arab Emir- ates, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran and Afghanistan. In a recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, 1978), the methodology for assessing potential land use is based on the following procedures: i selection and definition of the type of land utilization, i.e. crop and product, production type, input level; ii compilation of a climatic inventory including phenological requirements and the response of photosynthesis to temperature and radiation; 
TI - Climate, soil and land resources in North Africa and West Asia
JF - Plant and Soil
DO - 10.1007/BF02180047
DA - 2005-09-02
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/climate-soil-and-land-resources-in-north-africa-and-west-asia-RIBCsLTmLl
SP - 1
EP - 29
VL - 58
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -