IMADEDDIN MOH'D ALBABA

Free lancer & Independent Researcher

A Study of the Economic profit of replacing the cultivation of Olive trees with Almonds. A case of Aqaba village-Tubas Governorate-West Bank-Palestine. Imadeddin.M. ALBABA,MSc. Freelance Consultant & Researcher ABSTRACT The olive and almond trees are important plantation in Palestine’s governorates, in general, and in the province of Tubas, in par...

The study aimed at addressing climate variability impacts on wheat and barley production in Palestine. A combination of literature survey and multiple semi-structured interviews with officials from the Palestinian governmental agriculture related agencies and active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used for gathering information on wheat and b...

The Extreme Natural Events: Science & Technology for Mitigation in Palestine. Imadeddin Al-Baba,MSc. E-mail: IMADBABA@gmail.com Extreme events, along with their change in term of frequency, such as strong winds, winter storms, droughts, high temperature etc. can bring massive loss to to the national properties. These effects of Extreme Natural Even...

The paper aimed at surveying wildlife roadkills in the West Bank Governorates-Palestine from January 2016 till January 2017. The present survey results, thirteen target wildlife species were recorded, of which eight mammals and five reptiles corresponding to 78 (58%), and 56 (42%) accordingly. The mammal's species, include the following Species (Pr...

The wheat and Barley cultivation in the West Bank-Palestine show a distinct Mediterranean climate with most of the rainfall occurring in the winter months. The main detrimental factor limiting plant production in this region is rainfall. Due to clearing of native vegetation, dryland salinity is a major problem in Hebron and east Jenin districts. Si...

According to the (IPCC) the MENA region is especially vulnerable to climate change. It is one of the world’s driest, most water-scarce regions, depends on climate-sensitive agriculture. The climate-induced resource will be severely affected by the physical effects of climate change such as ; high-temperature increases, a significant decline in prec...

The wheat and Barley cultivation in the West Bank-Palestine show a distinct Mediterranean climate with most of the rainfall occurring in the winter months. The main detrimental factor limiting plant production in this region is rainfall. Due to clearing of native vegetation, dryland salinity is a major problem in Hebron and east Jenin districts. Si...

Nature reserves are an important component of the strategy to halt biodiversity loss caused by habitat fragmentation and loss, climate change, and other anthropogenic factors. The results of our study showed that: (1). Palestine currently has 50 nature reserves covering approximately (511.58 km 2), 9% of the West Bank region area. These reserves we...

Venomous snakes found in Palestine, include Palestine saw scaled viper (Echis coloratus), Palestine viper (Vipera paleastinae), Desert Black Cobra (Walterinnesia aegytia) and Palestine Mole Viper (Atractaspis engaddensis) snakes. It has been estimated that 100–150 people per year receive venomous bites in Palestine, and about 2-3 of those people di...

Humans and vertebrate pests have coexisted in different places including Palestine since thousands of years ago. Some vertebrate group populations compete with humans for resources, damage human's agricultural holdings either plantations or Animal production barns. This work is an attempt to prepare the first Checklist of vertebrate pests' damage t...

Agricultural production in general, is environmentally sensitive being highly influenced by changes in climate, soil water and nutrition, and land use practices. From a climate perspective, agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change as most crop systems have been optimized to fit a given climate niche allowing for economically sustainabl...

The wild boar or wild hog (Sus scrofa) is an exotic, invasive species that has major impacts on different Agricultural crops in the northern governorates of Palestine. Today wild boar is the largest mammals in Palestine [1, 2]. According to the 19th-century expeditors, wild boars were abundant throughout Palestine, including the arid regions [2, 3,...

Apiculture or beekeeping is one of the agriculture’s sub-sectors, where Precision Agriculture (PA) approaches can be successfully applied. Adaptation of Precision Agriculture approaches and techniques into Apiculture, as well as integrating information technologies into beekeeping process can improve the beekeepers knowledge about behavior of indiv...

A preliminary checklist of the mammals of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) Governorates is presented based on records of mammal's species whose presence has been confirmed in Palestine's governorates as a result of extensive field expeditions, examination of fixed mammals collections, literature review, and personal communications from research...

A preliminary checklist of the herpetofauna of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) Governorates is presented based on records of amphibian and reptile species whose presence has been confirmed in Palestine's governorates as a result of extensive field expeditions, examination of fixed herpetological collections, literature review, and personal com...

The paper aims at discussing the onset phenomena of resistance to the active principles of different pesticides and medication used in curing diseases and in controlling various types of pest or predator of honeybees in Palestine. Majority of the used medications and pesticides showed resistance to the active principals. Asset of recommendations wa...

Our investigations show that the S. tricuspis is found in four countries out of the seven sampled ones. This pest was recorded in Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, and Italy, Samples from Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine were negative for infestation. We confirmed the presence of S. tricuspis in the southern and western areas of the Mediterranean sea, and diagnos...

Three hundred eleven honeybee samples from twelve countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Palestine and Sudan) were analyzed for the presence of deformed wing virus (DWV). The prevalence of DWV throughout the MENA region was pervasive, but variable. The high...

The field work along with the literature review, many of them from the 19th and early 20th centuries, shows that the Striped Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena, has apparently always been distributed with rare status in Palestine. The field surveys show that the species still survives in some West Bank and Gaza strip governorates. The direct encounter of hyaena...

The main goal of this study is to provide information about the foraging value of a number of specific plant species for honeybees in Palestine, since one of the limiting factors of Palestine’s apiculture industry is the unpredicted seasonality in the blooming phenology of nectariferous and polleniferous plant species. This limiting factor can be o...

Honey bee import regulations in the countries of the Arab world region ( the Middle East and North Africa) are described in this article. We have faced a series of obstacles during preparation due to an information shortage, but we have been able to obtain information from personal contacts. All of countries in the Middle East and North Africa do h...

MELLIFEROUS PLANT SPECIES OF THE WEST BANK GOVERNORATES – PALESTINE. Palestinian beekeeping is a traditional hobby and job about seven millennia old. The archaeological remnants showed mud beekeeping in the Canaanite era in the Babb El Wad area. The ten thousand years old city, Jericho, showed remnants of apiculture activities. Two Christian brothe...

The study aims at addressing the effects of slope orientation on vegetation characteristics of WAFR flora, trees and understory layer. We examined slope effects on the composition, structure, density of the plant communities, tree canopy and diameter at breast height (DBH). Two representative sites were randomly selected within the WAFR area, to be...

Dromedary camels play an important role to the livelihood and survival of Bedouin (pastoralists) in the study areas of the West Bank governorates-Palestine. Information on incidences of camel (Camelus dromedarius) and their population current status in Palestine is so scarce. This survey aims at investigating the Palestinian camel's current status,...

Nectar and pollen are the major sources for the fulfillment of the nutritional demands of honeybees. The contents of these sources vary based on the floral diversity, seasonality and flowering phenology. Palestine is a small country rich in biodiversity, due to its location at the crossroads of three bio-geographical (Mediterranean, Desert and S...

The nectar and pollen, are the major sources for the fulfillment of the nutritional demands of honeybees. The contents of these sources are vary based on the floral diversity, seasonality. And flowering phenology. Palestine is a small country rich in biodiversity, due to Palestine’s location at the crossroads of three bio-geographical (Mediterranea...

The ppt aimed at addressing the current status of apiculture in Palestine, the beehives population, the productivity and the obstacles faced by this sector. In addition the ppt focused on some recommendations that might help the Palestinian beekeepers to better manage their own apiary.

A survey to study the status of the colony losses were conducted in the winter of 2008 and the spring of the 2009, it was very clear that the level of the colony losses in this season is lesser than the levels in the season of the years 2007-2008. no clear reasons for this evident are available but it is clear that the weather had play a big role i...

The Aquaculture Potential in the West Bank – Palestine Authority The success of aquaculture systems is dependent upon the quantity and quality-chemical and physical properties of water resources. The most limiting factor for inland aquaculture in the West Bank is the availability of water resources. The lack of knowledge and unwillingness to inves...

THE VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS OF WADI AL QUF FOREST RESERVE (WAFR). Abstract The study aims at addressing the vegetation characteristics of WAFR flora, trees, understory layer and soil physical and chemical properties. We examined slope effects on the composition, structure, density of the plant communities, tree canopy and diameter at breast hei...

The study aims at addressing the vegetation characteristics of WAFR flora, trees, understory layer and soil physical and chemical properties. We examined slope effects on the composition, structure, density of the plant communities, tree canopy and diameter at breast height (DBH) as well as soil physical and chemical properties. Two representative...

Beekeeping is a feasible way to help people to work their way out of poverty, while at the same maintaining biodiversity. Beekeeping gives some of the world's poorest people opportunity to harvest commodities that can have international quality and value. there are 67 countries considered as developing ones, mainly from the African and pacific regi...

Aquaculture is considered today an important source of production for meeting the world's increasing demand for protein. In many cases, the main constrain to the development of aquaculture is the lack of knowledge of basic principles and technical skills involved.The world annual production of fish by aquaculture is currently about 6 million tons,...

The study tackled the problem related to the introduction of herbivorous fish species, mainly Silver & Big head Carp” (Hypophthalmichthys Molitrix & Aristichthys Nobilis ) ,in the inland water bodies of Moldova Republic. The study investigates the Bio-technique of artificial reproduction and early ontogenesis of Silver & Big head Carp in fish ponds...