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We are delighted to launch the ICARDA Annual Report 2019. Please take a moment to discover more about the important work ICARDA carries out to improve the resilience of rural livelihoods in dry areas through our innovative science and research...

Paratuberculosis (Ptb) is a widespread chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) that affects both domestic and wild ruminants. Most of the studies focused on cattle while, the prevalence of Ptb in sheep in...

The objective of this paper was to evaluate the productivity of three indigenous goat breeds from Ethiopia namely Abergelle (AB), Central Highland (CH) and Woyto-Guji (WG) based on their kids’ total live weight at three months (LWW), survival...

Our study reports the identification of two novel multi-flowering (MF) genotypes, PMF-1 and PMF-2, in cultivated lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), stably forming up to five flowers per peduncle (FPP) on I2 nodes at multiple flowering nodes (beyond...

This paper explores the role of women empowerment and labour on enabling farmers to cross two hurdles: adopt and intensify soil fertility management (SFM), coming after six decades of SFM research that disseminated several technologies. Despite...

Accelerating crop improvement for increased yield and better adaptation to changing climatic conditions is an issue of increasing urgency in order to satisfy the ever-increasing global food demand. However, the major bottleneck is the absence of...

Mrs. Mountaha Youssef is a PhD student at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon and have a fellowship sponsored under ICARDA collaborative project with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) with the supervision...

Seed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular communication between seed staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region and beyond. Its purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs and thus improve the...