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Plant Health Innovation Platform launch
June 08, 2023

CGIAR's Plant Health Innovation Platform launched at ICARDA Lebanon

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...

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November 30, 2021

ICARDA Signs MoU with the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

ICARDA is thrilled to announce that Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR CWANA Regional Director, and Mr. Ashwin B Panya, Secretary General of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), have signed a...

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Optimizing near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Predict Nutritional Quality of Chickpea Straw for Livestock Feeding
November 29, 2021

Optimizing near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Predict Nutritional Quality of Chickpea Straw for Livestock Feeding

Multidimensional improvement programs of chickpea require screening of a large number of genotypes for straw nutritive value. The ability of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine the nutritive value of chickpea straw was...

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Dr. Mina Devkota demonstrating CA machinery in Morocco
November 28, 2021

Morocco to Convert 1M ha to Conservation Agriculture - how ICARDA/INRA Fit In

On November 12th, the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests announced that up to one million hectares of cereals will be cultivated under Conservation Agriculture by 2030.
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Wild Lentils: Treasure of Novel Diversity
November 27, 2021

Wild Lentils: Treasure of Novel Diversity

The cultivated lentil (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris) is an annual herbaceous selfpollinating true diploid (2n=2x=14) species with an estimated genome size of 4063 Mbp/C (Arumuganathan and Earle, 1991). The crop is one of the first domesticated...

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Certificate of Award
November 24, 2021

ICARDA’s livestock-based innovation success story gets an award 

ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock which is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund 

ICARDA is thrilled to announce that our story on...

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Chickpea
November 21, 2021

A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties

Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by ICARDA and ICRISAT scientists which will facilitate the breeding of more climate-smart, disease-tolerant chickpea crop varieties for better food security.
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COP26
November 21, 2021

COP wakes up to climate-friendly agriculture

While the Glasgow Climate Pact came short on delivering on coal and climate finance, considerable progress was made on mitigation, particularly on cutting emissions - including those emitted by agriculture. CGIAR’s strong presence at the conference supported the efforts to simultaneously reduce climate change impacts on food systems and lower agriculture’s contribution to global warming.
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Output 9: Comprehensive Report Activity 9.2: Comprehensive Report of Results including Recommendations and Strategies
November 21, 2021

Output 9: Comprehensive Report Activity 9.2: Comprehensive Report of Results including Recommendations and Strategies

Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) is the main component required to understand both hydrological and ecological processes between the land surface and the atmosphere. Reliable spatiotemporal measurements of ET are important for water resources...

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A Holistic Framework towards Developing a Climate-Smart Agri-Food System in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Dialogue and Synthesis
November 19, 2021

A Holistic Framework towards Developing a Climate-Smart Agri-Food System in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Dialogue and Synthesis

Agriculture and agri-food systems of the highly vulnerable Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region needs a radical transformation under a changing climate. Based on a two-year effort, initially we developed a mega hypothesis on how to achieve...

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