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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.

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.