The International Day of Plant Health 2024 – marked on 12 May under the theme “Plant health, safe trade, and digital technology” – showcases ICARDA’s crucial role in preventing the spread of pests and pathogens.
Cultivation of grasspea has emerged as a beacon of hope, in Bangladesh's Char areas, situated within the vast delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna rivers
An innovative and easy-to-use digital tool (DTREO) has helped transform the lives of goat and sheep breeders through data collection to support decisions on selecting superior males for breeding and access to new market opportunities.
Dryland communities’ agricultural productivity and well-being are closely tied to water availability and access, especially amid conflict. Dr. Vinay Nangia explains how ICARDA's water interventions create foundations for stability.
A new study conducted in the central Ethiopian highlands reveals that introducing animal sheds in livestock markets can increase farmers’ market attendance and income.
ICARDA's innovative climate-smart agricultural solutions strengthen drylands livelihoods' resilience and provide rural communities with opportunities to build productive lives and reason to remain in homelands.
A recently published ICARDA study investigating rural farmers' willingness to pay for carefully identified livestock market facilities has revealed what services are the most valued.
The theme of this year's World Soil Day, "Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity,” helps us to focus on current threats to the vital ecosystem and biodiversity of soil, and what ICARDA is doing in dry regions to protect it.
On World Science Day for Peace and Development, we showcase our work to restore food systems after national shocks - often the first step towards recovery.
On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, read about a recent study by ICARDA's Dr. Girma T. Kassie that makes sure our people-centered research produces real-world solutions, by asking farmers what traits in improved wheat they are willing to pay for.
On World Food Day 2020 we look at a collaborative CGIAR initiative called DryArc that targets water-scarce regions, and embraces the new ways of thinking, digitization of research-for-development, and innovative participatory approaches that are urgently needed
On International Day of Rural Women, we examine a new study that uncovers the hidden contribution of women farmers to household and community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.