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June 11, 2023
ICARDA's Resilient Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Systems (RASP) team has published a paper that identifies preferred traits in goats by pastoralists in Ethiopia. Understanding these preferences is crucial for designing improvement and conservation strategies for sustainable pastoralism in the country.
June 08, 2023
CGIAR's Plant Health Initiative has selected the ICARDA Terbol Research Station as the site for the Plant Health Innovation Platform for CWANA.
Lebanon, May 13, 2023: The launch of the platform at Qob Elias Village in southern Lebanon was attended by farmers and key...
May 29, 2023
On May 22, 2023, ICARDA hosted a partner field day at its Terbol Research Station in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, showcasing its groundbreaking and transformative dryland agri-innovations.
May 23, 2023
CGIAR's System Board Chair, Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, represented CGIAR at the AfDB's Annual Meetings to update key stakeholders on CGIAR's efforts to support zero hunger in Africa by 2030.
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November 30, 2021
ICARDA is thrilled to announce that Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR CWANA Regional Director, and Mr. Ashwin B Panya, Secretary General of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), have signed a memorandum of understanding to...
November 24, 2021
ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock which is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund
ICARDA is thrilled to announce that our story on Community-Based Breeding...
November 21, 2021
Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by ICARDA and ICRISAT scientists which will facilitate the breeding of more climate-smart, disease-tolerant chickpea crop varieties for better food security.
November 17, 2021
CGIAR focuses on the transformation of rural farming food systems through better agriculture to help communities adapt to complex and integrated challenges such as climate change and population growth, and provide food and water security, and more resilient livelihoods...
November 15, 2021
VIRTUAL WEBINAR – POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WHEAT IN UZBEKISTAN
Seed Systems, varietal adoption, and impacts
November 22, 2021
10:00 – 12:30 Tashkent time (UTC+05:00)
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November 14, 2021
Egypt’s Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly visits the Dates Complex, a 14 Fedan facility in Egypt’s New Valley Governorate, that produces around 5000 tons of dates annually.
![IKRI catalog of indigenous knowledge [credit: C. Biradar]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/images/2021-11/ikri_pic_1.jpg?h=13764fe0&itok=_E8jqlqt "IKRI catalog of indigenous knowledge [credit: C. Biradar]")
November 11, 2021
The 'Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure' (IKRI), a brand-new online catalog that compiles indigenous agricultural knowledge, is now available.
November 03, 2021
This week ICARDA travels to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. COP, organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is a unique opportunity for world leaders, climate change experts, scientists, and other global stakeholders, to hammer out action that addresses climate change in this time of crisis.
October 28, 2021
A short documentary on the achievements of the African Development Bank's flagship programme, the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) has won the 2021 Stevie Award. The video won the “Best Video – Documentary" category.