ICARDA News

ICARDA and The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) share knowledge for improved systemic approaches in pastoralism and climate change mitigation in Africa.

At the EiA learning event, ICARDA’s Soil, Water, and Agronomy Research Team brought together partners and researchers to report, reflect, and synthesize on efforts to modernize agronomy research.

ICARDA MEL team was chosen as a finalist for the CGIAR Inclusive Team Award – CGIAR's first-ever Inclusive Workplace Awards, recognizing efforts to advance gender equity and support inclusivity in the workplace.

ICARDA held a productive management training course on modern irrigation, and data collection on effective agricultural water management in October 2022 in the city of Aleppo.

ICARDA’s Soil, Water and Agronomy (SWA) Team in partnership with Food and Agriculture (FAO) will hold a dryland agriculture session in the FAO’s 2nd Global Framework on Water Scarcity and Agriculture (WASAG).

COP27 was marked by a significant change in discourse towards the key role that agri-food systems transformation can play in climate ada[atation and mitigation.

Within FAO’s NENA Water Scarcity Initiative (WSI), ICARDA, in collaboration with FAO in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia, has established and operated an ET measurement network since 2020.

Ministerial Session for African and Arab Ministers of Agriculture and CGIAR at COP27. The high-level session will build on contemporary issues and steps taken by countries of the region to promote food security using science and innovation.

Co-convened by ICARDA and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust), this event will reflect on the crop diversity conserved in Genebanks, a significant role in food system adaptation to climate change, which increasingly puts our global food systems at risk.