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About
ICARDA and
the CGIAR
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Established in 1977, the International Center
for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of 15 centers
supported by the CGIAR. ICARDA's mission is to improve the welfare of poor
people through research and training in dry areas of the developing world,
by increasing the production, productivity and nutritional quality of food,
while preserving and enhancing the natural resource base. ICARDA serves
the entire developing world for the improvement of lentil, barley and faba
bean; all dry-area developing countries for the improvement of onfarm water-use
efficiency, rangeland and small-ruminant production; and the Central and
West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region for the improvement of bread and
durum wheats, chickpea, pasture and forage legumes, and farming systems.
ICARDA's research provides global benefits of poverty alleviation through
productivity improvements integrated with sustainable natural-resource management
practices. ICARDA meets this challenge through research, training, and dissemination
of information in partnership with the national, regional and international
agricultural research and development systems.
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The Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR) is a strategic alliance of countries, international and
regional organizations, and private foundations supporting 15 international
agricultural Centers that work with national agricultural research systems
and civil society organizations including the private sector. The alliance
mobilizes agricultural science to reduce poverty, foster human well
being, promote agricultural growth and protect the environment. The CGIAR
generates
global public goods that are available to all. The World Bank, the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) are cosponsors of the CGIAR. The World
Bank provides the CGIAR with a System Office in Washington, DC. A Science
Council, with its Secretariat at FAO in Rome, assists the System in the
development of its research program..
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