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Boubaker Dhehibi1 \*, Mohamed Ben Salah<sup>2</sup> and Aymen Frija1,3

1 Resilient Agricultural Livelihood Systems Research Program—RALSP, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas—ICARDA, Amman, Jordan

2 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas—ICARDA, Directorate General of Agriculture and Livestock Research, Barka, Oman

3 Resilient Agricultural Livelihood Systems Research Program—RALSP, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas—ICARD, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunis—INRAT, Ariana, Tunisia

\*Address all correspondence to: b.dhehibi@cgiar.org

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