I am working on pre-breeding for cereals at ICARDA. My work focuses on accelerating the identification and introgression of useful gene bank material. I also focus on using the diversity in the more distal crop wild relatives of wheat and barley...
Drought-tolerant and water use efficient forage production in drylands
Across global drylands, forage crops (animal feed as pasture, crop residue, or cereal) are essential to smallholder farmers to sustain their livestock throughout the year, especially in winter, when animal grazing may be restricted. By...
ICARDA’s RIDE (Restoration Initiative on Dryland Ecosystems) team addresses land degradation in dryland ecosystems. RIDE targets biophysical processes but focuses on drivers and potential solutions to degradation that consider socio-economic aspects and community-based solutions.
Climate-resilient and productive small ruminants (sheep and goats)
Since its foundation in 1977, ICARDA has worked on small ruminant production in drylands, and its Small Ruminant team contributes to more productive and environmentally friendly livestock production systems.
Juliana Anchang is a Research Fellow at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. She is based in Cameroon. Juliana contributes to the design and enhancement of institutional- and project-level MEL systems, tools including the...
Lyudmila Berezina is an administrative assistant at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team. She started her work with MEL in 2022, based in Uzbekistan. Lyudmila provides administrative support for the MEL team and serves as the...
Dr. Ali Mohammed Oumer is an Agricultural Economist. His current research focuses on the analysis of farm productivity and efficiency, technology adoption, scaling, and impact evaluation, natural resource economics, and value chain analysis in...
Dr Krishna Devkota is Manager of Sustainable Intensification Work package of F2R CWANA Initiative. Dr Devkota has a PhD in Agriculture/Agronomy from the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany with extensive field...
Dr. Meseret, an Ethiopian National, holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Development Studies from the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. She has many years of...