CGIAR

For a food-secure future

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
Science for better livelihoods in dry areas

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What ICARDA offers

ICARDA works with partners in more than 50 countries, sharing skills, resources and experience to achieve common goals.

 

We work with: 

  • National research/extension agencies     
  • NGOs
  • Development investors
  • Universities
  • Specialized research institutes
  • Farmer cooperatives
  • Private sector
  • Partners in more than 60 countries
  • Partnerships are led by national organizations, and address national priorities
  • Each partner's role is defined

National research/extension agencies

 

National agricultural research and extension agencies are our most important partners. They help shape our research priorities, and plan, implement and monitor research programs.

 

ICARDA works with national research and extension agencies in 32 countries. More partners are being added.
 

ICARDA offers:

  • Technology innovations for small-scale farmers in dry areas
  • New tools and approaches to reduce research costs and increase research efficiency
  • Training programs for students, researchers, extension agents and farmers
  • Field performance data and socio-economic analyses, to assist policy makers
  • Links with other national research systems, to share ideas and test new technologies
  
 

Development investors

 

Effective, proven technologies are available. Development investors can help scale out these technologies to larger areas, with potential benefits to millions of poor households.
 

International development investors and aid agencies have worked with ICARDA for three decades, creating huge impacts on food security and livelihoods. Our supporters include national governments, development banks, UN agencies, international NGOs and many others.
 

ICARDA offers:

  • Technologies to multiply the impacts of donor-funded development projects
  • New approaches for outreach and technology dissemination
  • Links with other investors, to share costs and broaden the reach of new initiatives
     
  
 

NGOs and development agencies

 

Partnership with ICARDA allows each organization to do what it's best at. ICARDA develops and tests new technologies, and completes proof-of-concept studies at pilot scale. 

 

Development agencies then scale out these technologies by integrating them into development projects.
 

ICARDA works with over 60 NGOs and development agencies in 40 countries. Together we've delivered innovations to millions of small-scale farmers and pastoralists.
 

ICARDA offers:

  • Technologies for resource-poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists
  • New approaches for outreach and technology dissemination
  • Diagnostic analyses to identify policy and institutional changes to accelerate technological change
  • Links with other NGO agencies, to share costs and broaden the reach of development projects
     
  
 

Universities

 

Partnerships with universities are central to ICARDA's capacity building program. ICARDA is a bridge connecting university programs with graduate students from Central Asia, the Caucasus region, West Asia and North Africa – and also from Japan, Australia and several European countries.
 

ICARDA and the parent university co-supervise students, while ICARDA provides field and lab facilities for their thesis research.
 

ICARDA has worked with 51 universities in Europe, USA, Australia Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa. This year, we're hosting Masters and PhD students from 18 universities.
 

ICARDA offers students:

  • Opportunities to work in integrated, multi-disciplinary teams, with scientists and smallholder farmers
  • Field and lab facilities for thesis research
  • Friendly, secure living and work environments
  • Opportunities to discover one of the world's most ancient civilizations
  
 

Specialized research institutes

 

Advanced research labs in developed countries (and emerging economies) provide unique skills and facilities unavailable at ICRADA, or at national research centers.

 

This partnership offers advanced research centers the opportunity to contribute to agricultural development for the poor, and to strengthen skills and research capacity in developing countries.
 

ICARDA works with over 20 advanced research institutes in 8 countries, on crop genetic improvement (mainly biotechnology), resource mapping (including GIS and remote sensing), impact assessment methods and other areas.
 

ICARDA offers:

  • Opportunities to solve clearly defined research problems in resource-poor agricultural settings
  • Linkages with national research centers in over 40 countries
  • A large pool of graduate students and young scientists who could benefit from your expertise