Featured Blogs
September 28, 2022
The film reveals ICARDA's seedbanks and scientists' critical roles in preserving future global food security. Scientists thrive not just to safeguard those seeds and their rich genetic pool but to unlock their resilience and climate-smart potential to survive under almost any conditions.
September 19, 2022
Empowering women associations as drivers for agro-ecological transformation to generate income for Mountain farming communities.
September 18, 2022
By providing affordable and context-relevant machinery, ICARDA is boosting Tunisian farmers' income and creating new services for the wider rural community.
September 07, 2022
ICARDA works key partners to enhance water productivity and higher 'crop-per-drop' efficiency in Egypt by improving irrigation methods, water systems, and technology.
Recent Blogs
March 07, 2022
For International Women's Day 2022, delve into CGIAR's critical gender research that explains why sustainable food systems won't be achieved without women.
February 10, 2022
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.
February 09, 2022
ICARDA's Chief Lentil Breeder is celebrating World Pulses Day by praising the tiniest member of the legume family: the mighty lentil.
February 06, 2022
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.
January 18, 2022
Across Morocco, India, Nepal, and Uzbekistan’s sweeping, and at times desiccated tracts of land, two ICARDA agronomists are researching crop associations to improve the soil, make the most out of scarce water, and boost farmers’ income.
December 16, 2021
In the Houet region of Burkina Faso, ICARDA conducted a gender study to untangle various determinants that drive cowpea’s productivity, a crop cultivated mainly by women and central to their livelihoods.
December 14, 2021
Animal feed is scarce in the arid regions of southern Tunisia. To help farmers and pastoralists access feed, ICARDA, its local partners and CGIAR have boosted the local manufacturing of food pellets using available raw material.
December 02, 2021
The newly launched [email protected] project researches and designs a sociotechnical package of affordable and scalable Soil and Water Conservation Technologies (SWCT) to improve soil fertility in diverse farming agroecosystems in North and Central West Tunisia.
December 02, 2021
For two years, ICT2Scale has leveraged multiple ICT tools to support dryland Tunisian farmers access vital commodity price information across the country. As the project comes to an end, we reflect on its major successes, and on its legacy.