Featured Blogs
March 15, 2023
To help farmers cope with the country's severe droughts, ICARDA, INRA-Morocco, and Benchaib Semences recently released six new drought-tolerant varieties of durum wheat and barley through the DIIVA-PR Project, funded by the Crop Trust.
March 07, 2023
A new strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the MENA region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.
February 09, 2023
ICARDA's Climate Change Advisor, Dr. Roula Majdalani, discusses her professional journey and contributions to climate-related agricultural science and why groundbreaking research is vital to inform policymaking that facilitates the scale-up and adoption of transformative climate-smart approaches.
February 09, 2023
The Africa RISING project diversifies wheat-based production systems by integrating high yielding and pest resistant food legume crops into the cropping system. Easy access for farmers to quality seeds produced by community seed producers is the key to the project.
Recent Blogs
March 30, 2017
A groundbreaking study is the first to identify a major locus for resistance to Sunn Pest at the vegetative stage of crop growth.
March 30, 2017
Can new image analysis software inform the development of responsive support systems, strengthening the resilience of rangeland communities?
March 30, 2017
Understanding energy efficiency can help to enhance investments in sustainable agricultural production.
March 30, 2017
Understanding the relationship between evapotranspiration and available soil moisture yields critical information on water consumption and crop-water productivity.
March 30, 2017
A wheat initiative is strengthening the decision-making power of Sudanese women. Lessons learned here could benefit millions worldwide.
March 01, 2017
Reducing the threat of Sunn Pest.
February 16, 2017
A national effort to document, collect and conserve wheat landraces in Turkey is protecting valuable genetic resources of global importance.
Conserving the genetic diversity of plants is critical for global food security, helping to secure the preservation of...
February 08, 2017
Can new image analysis software inform the development of responsive support systems, strengthening the resilience of rangeland communities on the frontline of climate change?
December 20, 2016
It may take a village at a time to become self-sufficient in pulses for India. A pioneering initiative has set out to do so.