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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...
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November 28, 2021
On November 12th, the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests announced that up to one million hectares of cereals will be cultivated under Conservation Agriculture by 2030.
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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...
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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.
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November 21, 2021
While the Glasgow Climate Pact came short on delivering on coal and climate finance, considerable progress was made on mitigation, particularly on cutting emissions - including those emitted by agriculture. CGIAR’s strong presence at the conference supported the efforts to simultaneously reduce climate change impacts on food systems and lower agriculture’s contribution to global warming.
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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...
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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)
REGISTER HERE
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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/d04_traditional/public/images/2021-11/ikri_pic_1.jpg?h=13764fe0&itok=62Ci2AYx "IKRI catalog of indigenous knowledge [credit: C. Biradar]")
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November 11, 2021
The 'Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure' (IKRI), a brand-new online catalog that compiles indigenous agricultural knowledge, is now available.