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A female farmer from Central Ethiopia exposes lentils to the sun
February 10, 2022

Gender Equity in Crop Breeding: A Key to Broader Adoption 

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, ICARDA Gender Scientist Dr. Dina Najjar explains how including the crop traits’ preferences of different stakeholders could translate into broader adoption of improved varieties.
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Indian lentils
February 09, 2022

A Brief History of the Mighty Lentil in India

ICARDA's Chief Lentil Breeder is celebrating World Pulses Day by praising the tiniest member of the legume family: the mighty lentil.
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Dr.Rajaram
February 09, 2022

Dr. Sanjay Rajaram posthumously receives the Republic of India’s Padma Bhushan Award

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...

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Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Changes under Alternative Climatic Scenarios and Soil Properties Using DNDC Model at a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Environment
February 09, 2022

Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Changes under Alternative Climatic Scenarios and Soil Properties Using DNDC Model at a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Environment

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the central issues in dealing with soil fertility as well as environmental and food safety. Due to the lack of relevant data sources and methodologies, analyzing SOC dynamics has been a challenge in Morocco...

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Regard and protect ground-nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity
February 09, 2022

Regard and protect ground-nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity

While the Convention on Biological Diversity employs a habitat-oriented defini-tion of soil biodiversity including all kinds of species living in soil, the Food andAgriculture Organization, since 2002 assigned to safeguard soil biodiversity...

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Genome editing techniques in plants: a comprehensive review and future prospects toward zero hunger
February 09, 2022

Genome editing techniques in plants: a comprehensive review and future prospects toward zero hunger

Promoting sustainable agriculture and improving nutrition are the main United Nation’s sustainable development goals by 2030. New technologies are required to achieve zero hunger, and genome editing technology is the most promising one. In the...

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Conservation Agriculture in West Asia
February 07, 2022

Conservation Agriculture in West Asia

irregular rainfall mainly during the winter season. The average rainfall in the region is around 500 mm, but most of the cropped lands may receive rainfall in the range of 300–900 mm, varying from year to year, with rainfall distribution also...

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Precision farming
February 06, 2022

Precision Farming: Vast Potential for Small Farmers 

Precision farming is often touted as a solution for industrial-type farms, but it is also a great option for small-scale farmers in the developing world.
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Faba bean gall pathogen Physoderma viciae: new primers reveal its puzzling association with the field pea Ascochyta complex
February 05, 2022

Faba bean gall pathogen Physoderma viciae: new primers reveal its puzzling association with the field pea Ascochyta complex

Recent morphological and molecular studies confirmed Physoderma viciae, and not Olpidium viciae, to be the causative agent of the devastating Faba Bean Gall (FBG) disease on faba bean (Vicia faba) in Ethiopia and also highlighted its ability to...

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Plot-level impact of improved lentil varieties in Bangladesh.
February 02, 2022

Study on Impacts of Improved Lentil Varieties in Bangladesh

ICARDA scientists published an open-access paper on plot-level impacts of improved lentil varieties in Bangladesh in PLOS ONE journal.
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