OVER four decades, ICARDA SCIENTISTS HAVE WON numerous AWARDS FOR  RESEARCH AND innovation

 

2023

ICARDA is delighted to announce that Dr. Rachid Moussadek was elected Chair of the FAO Near East and North Africa Soil Partnership (NENA) Soil Partnership in a meeting in March 2023 in Muscat, Oman. The meeting was attended by representatives of 20 member countries. Dr. Moussadek is a Systems Cropping Agronomist at ICARDA and Joint Researcher of the Moroccan Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), specializing in/focused on Sustainable Soil and Land Management  

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is an internationally acknowledged initiative to elevate the importance of soils on ...

2022

Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, World Food Prize winner and former scientist of ICARDA and CIMMYT was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of the Republic of India. The Padma Bhushan is India’s third highest civilian honor, awarded to those who have displayed “distinguished service of a high order”. Dr. Rajaram joins the rank of nearly 1300 unique individuals who were honored for their exemplary achievements since the launch of the Padma Bhushan in 1954.

Dr. Rajaram joined ICARDA in 2002 as Director of the Integrated Gene Management Program. Prior ...