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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 21, 2015
Ethiopia has tremendous agricultural potential with vast areas of fertile land, diverse climate, abundant rainfall and a large labor force. Yet agriculture remains underdeveloped and poverty persists, especially in rural areas. Drought continues to affect the country...
October 20, 2015
Andrea Gros joins as the new Head of ICARDA’s Communication, Documentation and Information Services Unit (CODIS).
October 13, 2015
Yields on women’s farms are 20-30% less than on men’s farms. Women farmers in Ethiopia demonstrate large gains from gender-sensitized research and dissemination.
October 07, 2015
AMMAN - The compound and GeneBank of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Tel Hadya, Aleppo, Syria, are safe contrary to some online and Syria based media reports from today.
In the night of October 6, 2015, warplanes believed...
October 04, 2015
The importance of scientific innovation and technology for improving date palm production systems and the industry in the Gulf region was emphasized at the 10th annual steering committee and technical coordination meeting of ICARDA’s Date Palm Project held in Dubai, UAE...
October 04, 2015
In Syria, the lentil crops suffer heavily from a soil borne disease called Fusarium wilt, which can cause as high as 72% yield losses in wilt-infested fields. For a successful lentil crop, farmers require a high yielding cultivar with wilt resistance and amenability to...
October 04, 2015
Dr Atef Swelam, an irrigation scientist at ICARDA and coordinator of the Nile Delta project has been selected for the prestigious ‘Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers 2015’. This award recognizes the outstanding performance and achievements in...
October 02, 2015
In developing countries, where people struggle to secure one square meal a day, nutritional concerns are often ignored. Micronutrient deficiencies often known as the 'hidden hunger' go unnoticed even in the developed world. In the developing world, it afflicts over two...
October 02, 2015
Mouna Mechri lives in Tunisia and is completing her last year of PhD on agronomy. Recently, she was selected for training under the Young Agricultural Scientists Program (YASP), a component of the "Enhancing Food Security in Arab Countries" project.
Q. What topic did...