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June 11, 2023
ICARDA's Resilient Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Systems (RASP) team has published a paper that identifies preferred traits in goats by pastoralists in Ethiopia. Understanding these preferences is crucial for designing improvement and conservation strategies for sustainable pastoralism in the country.
June 08, 2023
CGIAR's Plant Health Initiative has selected the ICARDA Terbol Research Station as the site for the Plant Health Innovation Platform for CWANA.
Lebanon, May 13, 2023: The launch of the platform at Qob Elias Village in southern Lebanon was attended by farmers and key...
May 29, 2023
On May 22, 2023, ICARDA hosted a partner field day at its Terbol Research Station in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, showcasing its groundbreaking and transformative dryland agri-innovations.
May 23, 2023
CGIAR's System Board Chair, Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, represented CGIAR at the AfDB's Annual Meetings to update key stakeholders on CGIAR's efforts to support zero hunger in Africa by 2030.
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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 15, 2019
Germany’s public international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, showcases an ICARDA strategy that protects pollinators while increasing farmer yields and incomes
August 14, 2019
Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication between seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region and beyond.
August 07, 2019
The results of the latest World Resources Institute’s updated Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas clearly highlight the Middle East and North Africa - where ICARDA is active - as the most water-stressed region on Earth by far. In fact, 12 out of the top 17 most water stressed countries listed by WRI are located MENA.
July 24, 2019
As the present phase of the European Union Joint Rural Development Programme nears its completion, representatives of the European Union and the Ambassador of Italy in Egypt visited Fayoum to see the multiple benefits of raised-bed technologies first-hand.