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International Centers and Agencies

The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD)
- Joint workshops, conferences, and training
- Exchange of germplasm
- Cooperation in formulation and implementation of Thematic Networks (TN1 and TN2) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Sub-Regional Action Program for West Asia
- Cooperation in providing technical backstopping and training requested by the national components of the GEF/UNDP project on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority, and Syria

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
- ICARDA is participating in the Systemwide Program on Soil Water and Nutrient Management and in the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development, both coordinated by CIAT
- Joint development of CGIAR Systemwide Microbial Genetic Resources Database

International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
- Joint training courses and information exchange
- Study (at CIHEAM-Bari) of the tolerance of ICARDA mandate crops to salinity
- ICARDA participates in the FAO-CIHEAM subprogram for nutrition and feeding strategies and the subprogram for breeding strategies in sheep and goats
- Collaboration with CIHEAM-Zaragoza in research project on evaluation of Mediterranean rainfed agricultural technologies

International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT)
- CIMMYT/ICARDA Joint Dryland Wheat Program; two CIMMYT wheat breeders are seconded to ICARDA
- An ICARDA barley breeder is seconded to CIMMYT
- CIMMYT’s outreach program in Turkey and ICARDA’s Highland Regional Program share facilities in Ankara, Turkey and collaborate in a joint facultative wheat improvement program
- ICARDA and CIMMYT jointly coordinate a durum wheat research network encompassing WANA and southern Europe

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ICARDA participates in the Inter-agency Task Forces convened by the FAO Regional Office for the Near East
- ICARDA and FAO are co-sponsors of the sub-regional organization AARINENA
- ICARDA participates in FAO’s AGLINET cooperative library network, AGRIS and CARIS
- ICARDA participates in FAO’s Global Animal Genetic Resources program
- Joint planning in areas of feeding resources and strategies with FAO’s Animal Production and Health Division
- Joint training courses, workshops, and exchange of information

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Management of nutrients and water in rainfed arid and semi-arid areas for increasing crop production
- Research in feeding systems for small ruminants in the dry areas

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- ICARDA and ICRISAT cooperate in a joint kabuli chickpea improvement program
- ICARDA and ICRISAT are co-conveners of the sub-program on Optimizing Soil Water Use within the Systemwide Program on Soil Water and Nutrient Management
- ICARDA is collaborating with ICRISAT on insect pests of grain legumes within the Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- ICARDA participates in the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) coordinated by IFPRI
- Collaboration in policy and property rights research in CWANA through a joint staff appointment

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
- ICARDA is collaborating with IITA on parasitic weeds within the Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management
- Joint development of CGIAR Systemwide Microbial Genetic Resources Database

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- ICARDA is the convening center, in collaboration with ILRI and ICRISAT, for a program on Production and Utilization of Multi-purpose Fodder Shrubs and Trees in West Asia, North Africa, and the Sahel as part of the Systemwide Livestock Program (SLP) on Feed Resources, Production and Utilization coordinated by ILRI
- Joint development of CGIAR Systemwide Microbial Genetic Resources Database
- ILRI is a partner in a project on integrated feed and livestock production in the steppes of Central Asia, coordinated by ICARDA
- ILRI is a partner in studies of breed characterization of small ruminants in the Caucasus and on-station characterization of small ruminants in WANA
- ILRI and ICARDA cooperate in increasing feed resources in the Caucasus, supported by SLP

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
- ICARDA hosts and services the IPGRI Regional Office for Central and West Asia and North Africa (IPGRI-CWANA)
- ICARDA participates with other CG centers in the Systemwide Genetic Resources Program, coordinated by IPGRI, in both plant and animal genetic resources
- ICARDA collaborates with IPGRI in two sub-regional networks on genetic resources (WANANET and CATN/PGR)
- ICARDA participates in developments of the SINGER project coordinated by IPGRI and contributes data to the core SINGER database
- IPGRI-CWANA is a partner with ICARDA in providing technical backstopping and training requested by the national components of the GEF/UNDP project on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority, and Syria

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
- Joint development of CGIAR Systemwide Microbial Genetic Resources Database

International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
- ICARDA and ISNAR cooperate in research management for NARS in WANA
- ICARDA and ISNAR are co-sponsors of AARINENA

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- Collaboration in research on supplemental irrigation, issues of salinity and sustainable use of shallow groundwater aquifers, and the use of marginal water in agriculture

Australia

Australian Winter Cereals Collection
- Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics

Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection
- Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics

University of Adelaide, CRC for Molecular Plant Breeding
- International collaboration in barley research.
- Joint training of a PhD student
- Host resistance, epidemiology, and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea, and lentil diseases.

Center for Management of Arid Environments
- International collaboration in grazing management
Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics,
Southern Cross University
- Development of ESTs using wild barley from ICARDA

Charles Sturt University
- Soil physical characteristics in relation to infiltration and surface evaporation under conventional and no-till operations

Center for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA)
- Faba bean germplasm multiplication
- Germplasm testing and assessment of anti-nutritional factors: Lathyrus spp. and Vicia ssp.
- International selection, introduction, and fast tracking of kabuli chickpea
- Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics
- Preservation of the pulse and cereal genetic resources of the Vavilov Institute
- Pulse transformation technology transfer
- Improving crop establishment and yield of relay and post-rice-sown pulses (lentil and Lathyrus) in the cropping systems of the terai and mid-hills in Nepal

Department of Agriculture, Western Australia
- Host resistance, epidemiology, and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea, and lentil diseases

NSW Agriculture, Tamworth Center for Crop Improvement
- Durum wheat improvement
- Selection of legume germplasm for virus disease resistance
- Host resistance, epidemiology, and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea, and lentil diseases

Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney
- Near isogenic lines for the assessment of pathogenic variation in the wheat stripe (yellow) rust pathogen

Victorian Institute for Dryland Agriculture
- Improvement of lentil and grasspea in Bangladesh
- Improvement of narbon vetch for low rainfall cropping zones in Australia
- Improving crop establishment and yield of relay and post-rice-sown pulses (lentil and Lathyrus) in the cropping systems of the terai and mid-hills in Nepal
- Coordinated improvement project on Australian lentils
- Host resistance, epidemiology, and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea, and lentil diseases

Austria

Federal Institute for Agrobiology
- Safety duplication of ICARDA’s legume germplasm collection

Belgium

University of Gent
- Assessment of Vicia sativa and Lathyrus sativus for neurotoxin content

University of Leuven
- Participatory agroecological characterization

Canada

Canadian Grain Commission, Winnipeg
- Development of techniques for evaluating the quality of barley, durum wheat, and food and feed legumes

University of Guelph, School of Rural Development and Planning
- Role of women in resource management and household livelihood strategies

University of Manitoba
- Collaboration in tan spot disease

University of Saskatchewan
- Integrated long-term strategy for genetic improvement of resistance to ascochyta blight and anthracnose in lentil
- Evaluation of chickpea germplasm and their wild relatives

Simon Fraser University, British Colombia
- Collaboration in sunn pest pheromones

Denmark
Risø National Laboratory, Plant Biology Biogeochemistry Department
- QTL analyses in barley
- Barley pathology
- Integrated cereal disease management in Eritrea
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Yellow rust of wheat
- Integrated cereal disease management in Eritrea

France

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
- Bioeconomic and community modeling studies in WANA
- Global program for direct sowing, mulch-based systems, and conservation tillage

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
- Association of molecular markers with morphophysiological traits associated with constraints of Mediterranean dryland conditions in durum wheat (with Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie (ENSA), Montpellier and ENSA-INRA, Le Rheu)
- Water balance studies in cereal-legume rotations in semi-arid Mediterranean zone (with Bioclimatology Research Unit of INRA, Thiverval-Grignon)
- Collaboration on cereal cyst nematodes (with INRA-Rennes)
- Genotyping of wild relatives (INRA/UMR Diversité et Génomes des Plantes Cultivées, Montpellier)

Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM)
- Cooperation in the establishment of a network on water information

Université de Paris-Sud, Labo Morphogénèse Végétale Experimentale
- Production of doubled haploids in bread wheat and barley

Germany

University of Bonn
- QTL analysis in barley
- Integrated approaches to sustainable land management in dry areas

University of Frankfurt am Main
- Development and use of DNA molecular markers for indirect selection in chickpea
University of Hanover
- Development of transformation protocols for chickpea and lentil

University of Hohenheim
- Simulation studies on the sustainability of Mediterranean cropping systems
- Increasing the heterozygosity level of barley to exploit heterosis under drought stress

University of Karlsruhe
- Use of remote sensing and GIS for identification of water harvesting sites

University of Kiel
- Assessment of information needs for development of water management models
- Institutions of supplemental irrigation

Italy

Institute of Nematology, Bari
- Studies of parasitic nematodes in food legumes

Catania University
- Developing a decision support system for mitigation of drought impacts in Mediterranean regions

University of Genoa
- Analysis of the climatology of rainfall obtained from satellite and surface data for the Mediterranean basin

University of Naples
- Development of transgenic chickpea resistant to ascochyta blight

University of Tuscia, Viterbo
- Diversity of storage proteins in durum wheat

University of Tuscia, Viterbo; Germplasm Institute, Bari; ENEA, Rome
- Evaluation and documentation of durum wheat genetic resources

Japan

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- JICA’s volunteers program supports research on animal health, animal nutrition, and improvement of drought tolerance in spring bread wheat by placing a volunteer for each of these three research areas

Kyoto University
- Collaboration in molecular characterization of wheat wild relatives

Netherlands

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- Collaboration on groundwater research in Syria
Wageningen University
- Collaboration on land and water management research in Syria

Norway

Agricultural University of Norway
- Collaboration on soil and water management research in Syria

Portugal

Estacao National de Melhoramento de Plantas, Elvas
- Screening of wheat for resistance to yellow rust, scald, Septoria, and powdery mildew
- Developing lentil, faba bean, chickpea, and forage legumes adapted to Portugal’s conditions

Russia

All Russian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Moscow
- Establishment of barley transformation system

The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR)
- Genetic resources exchange, joint collection missions, and collaboration in genetic resources evaluation and documentation

Spain

Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)
- Barley stress physiology (with University of Barcelona)
- Bread wheat stress physiology (with University of Barcelona)
Switzerland

Institut Universitaire d’Études du Développement (IUED), Geneva
- Sustainable dryland resource management in the arid margins of Syria

Station Fédérale de Recherches Agronomiques de Changins (RAC)
- Duplication of Lathyrus genetic resources and data

Swiss College of Agriculture (SCA), Department for International Agriculture
- Training of SCA students within short research programs in animal production at ICARDA

United Kingdom

Birmingham University
- Collaboration in advising students on in situ conservation

Bristol University
- Analysis of the climatology of rainfall obtained from satellite and surface data for the Mediterranean basin

McCaulay Land Use Research Institute
- Research planning on fat-tailed sheep as a trait to be used in strategic feeding systems
- Research on feeding systems for small-ruminant production in the dry areas
- Upgrading of skills in methodologies of feed evaluation in Central Asia

University of Reading
- Gender analysis in the agricultural systems of WANA
- Testing woolly-pod vetch in a hillside project in Uganda

Scottish Crop Research Institute
- Use of microsatellite markers to characterize barley genetic resources of WANA

United States of America

University of California, Riverside
- Biodiversity of wheat wild relatives

University of California, Davis
- Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (GL-CRSP) rangeland production and utilization in Central Asia
- Developing chickpea cultivars with resistance to ascochyta blight
- Study of genetic diversity in natural populations of Aegilops tauschii

Colorado State University
- Testing for stripe rust in barley

Cornell University, Ithaca
- Use of molecular markers for genome mapping and marker-assisted selection for stress resistance in durum wheat
- RNA fingerprinting in barley

DuPont Agric. Biotechnology
- Development of EST markers in wheat and lentils

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Child nutrition in rural areas of Syria

North Carolina State University Department of Statistical Genetics
- QTL estimation for disease data

Oklahoma State University
- Collaboration in feasibility study for sustainable renovation of qanats in Syria

Oregon State University
- Molecular mapping of barley within the North America Barley Genome Mapping project
- Identification of molecular markers associated with resistance to diseases of barley

Texas Tech University, Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory
- Adaptation to drought and temperature stress in barley using molecular markers

University of Vermont
- Use of entomopathogenic fungi for the control of sunn pest in West Asia

University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center
- Small-ruminant production with emphasis in dairy sheep evaluation and crossbreeding
- Sheep production in Central Asia through the GL-CRSP

Washington State University
- The use of CropSyst simulation model in the WANA region for generalization of the site-specific research results for wider ecoregions

Yale University, Center for Earth Observations
- Feasibility study of use of remote sensing and image analysis for land use mapping and evaluation

US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS)
- Biological diversity, cultural and economic value of medicinal, herbal, and aromatic plants in southern Tunisia

USDA/ARS National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
- Production of PCR primers for detection of viruses

USDA/ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
- Development of bread wheat cultivars facilitated by microsatellite DNA markers

USDA/ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
- Technical advice on soil conservation technologies and erosion research

USDA/ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory (FRRL)
Central Asian rangeland and sheep evaluation

USDA/ARS Texas
- Climatological analysis as a tool for agricultural decision-making in dry areas

USDA/ARS Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research Laboratory, Pullman, Washington
- Gene mapping of economic traits to allow marker-assisted selection in chickpea
- Exploitation of existing genetic resources of food legumes
- Inheritance and mapping of winter-hardiness genes in lentil for use in marker-assisted selection

USDA/ARS Western Regional Plant Introduction Station
- Conservation of temperate food, pasture, and forage legume biodiversity