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At Cairo Water Week 2025, ICARDA joined global leaders to showcase science-based solutions tackling water scarcity and climate challenges. ICARDA demonstrated how innovation, partnerships, and farmer-focused approaches drive resilient agri-food systems across dry regions.

Once a simple grain, wheat in Zimbabwe is becoming a symbol of innovation and entrepreneurship. At a Bindura workshop, students, farmers, and researchers learned to turn wheat into high-value products, blending science with creativity. Supported by TAAT and ICARDA, this initiative empowers youth and women to drive Africa’s wheat transformation.

ICARDA and Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation signed an MoU to enhance collaboration on sustainable water and agricultural resource management, building Jordan’s resilience to drought and climate change.

Women farmers in Walana, Pakistan, are turning farm waste into compost through training under the ICARDA–USDA Fertilize Right project

A new wheat variety is giving farmers in drought-affected Morocco a reason to sow again. Jawahir, a durum wheat bred for dry conditions, is proving it can deliver reliable harvests where other varieties fail.

QBMS 2.0 streamlines access to breeding data, integrating field, pedigree, and genotyping information across platforms through BrAPI standards. Developed by ICARDA as a public good, the upgraded R package enhances interoperability, reliability, and efficiency.

With a large and highly urbanized population, high dependence on food imports, and water scarcity, Egypt is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries. For over four decades, ICARDA has worked closely with Egypt’s Agriculture Research Center (ARC) and the government...

On 14–15 July, a delegation of ICARDA and ARC-Egypt scientists embarked on an exploratory visit to Marsa Matrouh, located on Egypt’s northwestern Mediterranean coast.

A new publication from ICARDA and its national research partners provides a timely analysis of the power relations, policy frameworks, and institutional factors that influence how wheat innovations are transferred — or not — from research centre breeding programs to farmers’ fields.

Tucked deep inside a mountain in the Arctic Circle, a new batch of seeds from ICARDA has just joined the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

To address Tunisia’s shortage of quality livestock feed, through CGIAR Research Initiative on Agroecology and the SWC@Scale-ProSol Project, ICARDA and national partners, the National Agronomic Research Institute (INRAT) and the Office of Livestock and Pasture (OEP)...

ICARDA participated in the Agriculture Research Center Conference and Exhibition organized by Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) and the Agricultural Research Center (ARC)