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June 02, 2022
The “Carlotta Award 2022” second edition is promoted by ENEA, the Academy of Sciences known as the XL, and by the European Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI and sponsored by ICARDA, the Wheat Initiative International Program, and EUCARPIA European Association for...
June 01, 2022
Lebanese athlete Micheal Haddad will walk 5km in the snow to deposit precious ICARDA seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.
May 18, 2022
May 18, Rabat, – The ICARDA Morocco Genebank was officially inaugurated today by His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Sadiki, Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture, alongside Aly Abousabaa, CGIAR's Regional Director of CWANA and ICARDA Director-General. Also presenting the event were...
May 16, 2022
Official letter to the UAE from Mr Aly Abousabaa, Regional Director, Central and West Asia and North Africa, CGIAR and Director General ICARDA
May 14, 2022
This week sees major advances for agricultural research-for-development (R4D) in Morocco with the launch of the partner-led CGIAR Climber and F2R-CWANA Initiatives, and the inauguration of the new ICARDA Morocco genebank.
May 09, 2022
On May 18th, 2022, the new ICARDA Morocco Genebank officially opens in Rabat, Morocco. This state-of-the-art facility safely stores one of the world's most unique and extensive collections of wheat, barley, chickpea, faba bean, lentil, and forage genetic material.
April 21, 2022
A recent study by ICARDA's Gender Scientist Dr. Dina Najjar examines how societal and economic changes in post-Soviet Uzbekistan altered gender norms, roles, and influence.
April 17, 2022
ICARDA contributed a further 6,336 seed samples to Norway’s Svalbard seed Vault, adding up to more than 100,000 accessions stored in the vault.
April 14, 2022
In a new study, ICARDA Gender Scientist Dr. Dina Najjar demonstrates that gender-responsive digital extension can reduce the information gap between male and female farmers in northern Tunisia and help improve the adoption of agricultural technologies.