BOLD-DIVA-PR II Dissemination of ICARDA Varieties through Participatory Research

After significant achievements in the "Dissemination of Interspecific ICARDA Varieties and Elites through Participatory Research" (DIIVA-PR) project under the crop wild relatives (CWR) project, the current project aims to scale impacts to farmer's fields by evaluating and delivering CWR-derived lines of durum wheat and barley developed by DIIVA-PR in Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Nigeria and Sudan; assessing in the fields landraces of barley and durum wheat for various traits of interest in these countries; incorporating the best germplasm identified into crosses and assessing them for performance and farmer's preferences through participatory actions. The project plans to produce a scientific article describing the performances of CWR- and landrace-derived elites; release variety for each partner country, share breeding materials with partner countries; collect farmers' evaluations to support the release process; improve the capacity of partners to conduct field evaluation; and make all data freely available online.