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October 20, 2019
ICARDA participated in the 2nd Cairo Water Week (CWW), which theme was “Responding to Water Scarcity.” It was an opportunity for academics, scholars, and policymakers, water resources experts from all around the world to discuss the key issues and actions related to responding to the challenges of water scarcity.
October 17, 2019
In May of this year, 22 women from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region won a competitive fellowship in agricultural research, sponsored by the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Islamic Development...
October 06, 2019
Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving the attention they deserve. A new project led by the Crop Trust will help improve the productivity of grasspea and finger millet by making more genetic diversity available to breeders.
October 01, 2019
Nine of the 15 CGIAR centres were present at a meeting in Nairobi to discuss how CGIAR centres, Government, FAO and donors plan to support agriculture in Somalia after 30 years of conflict.
September 26, 2019
September 24, 2019
With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond to call to action from Global Commission on Adaptation to counter surge of climate extremes
September 05, 2019
The 2018 Annual Report highlights the outcomes and impacts of ICARDA’s research strategy and our efforts last year to break the cycle of poverty, improve food and nutritional security, and reverse natural resource degradation across the dry areas.
Research activities...
September 04, 2019
8-11 September 2019 Rabat, Morocco The DryArc Initiative is a research partnership between eight CGIAR Research Centers that aims to strengthen the resilience of rural communities and agri-food systems across the global drylands of the Middle East and North Africa, South, Central, and West Asia as well as Sub-Saharan Africa, representing the DryArc region.
August 26, 2019
Despite the severe social and political unrest that constrain agriculture in Afghanistan, many farmers are growing high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties developed through international, science-based breeding and made available to farmers as part of partnerships...