High-elevation research in Pakistan : the MART/AZR project -- final project report and annual report for 1989

391-0489-00-C- 5042-00) with the USAID Mission to Pakistan in order to improve and upgrade the research capability of the Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI) of the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC). This contract formed the Arid Zone Research component of USAID"s Management of Agricultural Research and Technology project. Five expatriate research advisors were provided to AZRI, four of whom were from ICARDA and one, the range/livestock adviser, was provided by Colorado State University under a sub-contract to ICARDA. One adviser was allocated to each of AZRI"s five research groups: agronomy, germplasm evaluation, range/livestock management, agricultural extension and farming systems/agricultural economics. This report summarizes the status of research at AZRI at the initiation of the project, research achievements during the life of the project and recommendations for the future direction of research for each of the groups at AZRI. It should be noted that though the project"s work is reported in five distinct disciplinary units much of the work was systems oriented and was not limited by disciplinary boundaries. (Author abstract)