Featured Blogs
May 19, 2020
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination and 85% of all global pollination services are provided by wild pollinators, many of them not even recognized and identified. On World Bee Day, ICARDA outlines how we contribute to their protection, in particular we show farmers how they can benefit from wild pollinators, we guide governments in the development of cross-sector national strategy and action plans for pollinator protection, and how we use SMS to improve knowledge and services for honey producers.
June 19, 2019
This approach offers an opportunity to characterize complex causalities and attribute realistic weights to specified causal linkages, as is relevant for the study of natural resource governance.
May 21, 2020
Agrobiodiversity is crucial to the livelihoods of rural communities living in dry areas of the world. It is critical for nutritional excellence and global food security amid the combined challenges of climate change, diminishing natural resources, and rapidly growing population. Collecting, conserving, and utilizing dryland agrobiodiversity has been at the core of ICARDA’s research since its birth over 40 years ago.
April 26, 2020
By Valerio Graziano, Knowledge Management Officer.
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches that maximize access to science and innovation that work towards a greener future. Open access offers several benefits such as...
Recent Blogs
May 21, 2020
Agrobiodiversity is crucial to the livelihoods of rural communities living in dry areas of the world. It is critical for nutritional excellence and global food security amid the combined challenges of climate change, diminishing natural resources, and rapidly growing population. Collecting, conserving, and utilizing dryland agrobiodiversity has been at the core of ICARDA’s research since its birth over 40 years ago.
April 26, 2020
By Valerio Graziano, Knowledge Management Officer.
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches that maximize access to science and innovation that work towards a greener future. Open access offers several benefits such as...
April 22, 2020
By Dr. Hatem Cheikh M'hamed, Zied Idoudi and Dr. Aymen Frija
As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to become more self-sufficient, ICARDA’s research will be critical for the viable future of staple crop...
April 18, 2020
Plant virologist Dr Safaa Kumari discovered seeds that could safeguard food security in the region and rescued them from Aleppo.
April 01, 2020
The ICARDA-coordinated Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) wheat compact project, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), aims to strengthen production capacity and seed systems, and disseminate improved climate-resilient wheat varieties,...
March 31, 2020
A message from ICARDA Director-General Aly Abousabaa
March 21, 2020
On World-Water Day 2020 our guest Pasquale Steduto reflects on increasing challenges in dryland areas due to water scarcity, and how ICARDA is overcoming them.
March 10, 2020
The languages which we speak change our thoughts and the way we think. What is more, is that new research shows that the many subtle differences across languages might actually change the way we experience the world around us.
March 06, 2020
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of the most gender unequal regions in the world. Male labor force participation rates in MENA are no different from other regions, at around 75%, but female labor force participation rates remain low, at around 20% .