GERMPLASM PROGRAM
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 region for the improvement of bread and durum wheats, chickpea, 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 agricultural research and development systems.
The results of research are transferred through ICARDA's cooperation with national and regional research institutions, with universities and ministries of agriculture, and through the technical assistance and training that the Center provides. A range of training programs is offered, from residential courses for groups to advanced research opportunities for individuals. These efforts are supported by seminars, publications, and specialized information services.
The CGIAR is an international
group of representatives of donor agencies, eminent agricultural scientists,
and institutional administrators from developed and developing countries
who guide and support its work. The CGIAR receives support from many country
and institutional members worldwide. Since its foundation in 1971, it
has brought together many of the world's leading scientists and agricultural
researchers in a unique South-North partnership to reduce poverty and
hunger.
The mission of the CGIAR is to promote sustainable
agriculture to alleviate poverty and hunger and achieve food security
in developing countries. The CGIAR conducts strategic and applied research,
with its products being international public goods, and focuses its research
agenda on problem-solving through interdisciplinary programs implemented
by one or more of its international centers, in collaboration with a full
range of partners. Such programs concentrate on increasing productivity,
protecting the environment, saving biodiversity, improving policies, and
contributing to the strengthening of agricultural research in developing
countries.
The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are cosponsors
of the CGIAR. The World Bank provides the CGIAR System with a Secretariat
in Washington, DC. A Technical Advisory Committee, with its Secretariat
at FAO in Rome, assists the System in the development of its research
program.
