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June 10, 2021
As the climate crisis intensifies, populations grow, disease and pest proliferate, and natural resources diminish, genetic improvement of crops within holistic breeding programs is crucial to reaching global food security. For over 40 years, ICARDA scientists, under a...
June 07, 2021
ICARDA is thrilled to present its new PhysioTron machine to speed up accurate measuring and recording of plant genetic traits, allowing for more advanced research towards achieving food security in the dry areas.
June 03, 2021
To mark World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Cairo’s Heliopolis University, in collaboration with ICARDA and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), will take part in a panel discussion webinar.
June 03, 2021
For World Environment Day, ICARDA scientist MIRA Haddad’s talked about ICARDA’s rehabilitation of Jordan’s rangelands projects at the WOCAT/UN “Restoring Life to the Land” webinar.
May 26, 2021
A new malt barley handbook published by ICARDA aims at solving challenges surrounding malt barley production in Ethiopia. It compiles key findings from 28 scientific papers authored by partners and stakeholders.
May 25, 2021
Newly publish research explains how after an exceptional wet season in Tunisia in 2017/18, ICARDA scientists studied various indigenous rangelands plants to discover their human health benefits and their attributes as feed for livestock and wildlife.
May 05, 2021
ICARDA scientists alongside IWMI and IFPRI and 70 other stakeholders and organisations, participated at the UNFSS Independent Dialogue on Central Asia dialogue framed around the theme “Advancing Water-Energy-Food (WEF) approaches to achieve food systems transformation in Central Asia.”
April 27, 2021
ICARDA is thrilled to announce that researcher Médiha Khamassi Khbou, studying her Ph.D. in collaboration with ICARDA and lecturer at the Ecole Nationale de Médecine Vétérinaire in Tunisia, has received the Best Poster Presentation award during the latest 14th...
April 12, 2021
Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, Team Leader of ICARDA’s GeoAgro for Sustainable Agroecosystems, was awarded the India Agri-Extension Award 2021 in Innovation in Agricultural Extension.