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September 13, 2023
ICARDA collaborated with a Community of Practice (CoP) to train a group of 150 farmers, mainly youth and women, about the importance of livestock nutrition and the value of feed components. The training empowered the farmers to produce their own cost-efficient and nutritious feed concentrate using locally available resources and a tailored small-scale feed processing unit.
August 10, 2023
Adapting to a changing world, ICARDA strengthens strategy to secure the future of agriculture in drylands.
July 12, 2023
Tunisia and Senegal's vast rangelands are crucial for pastoral communities' livelihoods and ecosystem services but face threats such as climate change, land degradation, and others.
July 17, 2023
A delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from CGIAR underscored the importance of international collaboration at COP28 in tackling climate-smart transformation in food, land, and water systems for future global food security.
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January 25, 2023
This workshop is one of many ICARDA climate-smart initiatives that contribute to the protection of the environment and support rural farmers in climate change adaptation.
January 13, 2023
Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director CWANA, recently led a series of high-level consultations on priorities for the ICARDA breeding research agenda until 2030.
December 27, 2022
ICARDA and The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) share knowledge for improved systemic approaches in pastoralism and climate change mitigation in Africa.
December 27, 2022
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.
December 27, 2022
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.
December 11, 2022
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.
November 28, 2022
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).
November 13, 2022
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.
November 13, 2022
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.