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December 05, 2025

A Dryland Soil Solution for an Uncertain Climate

Left to right: HE Dr. Munir Eldesouki, KACST President, Chairman of the Award's Board; Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General; HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Region; Dr. Seid-Ahmed Kemal, ICARDA Principal Scientist; HH Prince Naif bin Sultan bin Mohamed bin Saud Al Kabeer, Almarai Board of Directors Chairman.

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December 01, 2025

ICARDA Receives the Almarai Prize for Creative Scientific Work

From Left to Right: Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General; HRH Dr. Abdulrahman Alfadley, Minister of Environment, Water, and Agriculture and Chairman of the IDC Members’ Council; HRH Princess Sarah bint Bandar bin Abdulaziz, IDC Executive Director.

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November 30, 2025

New ICARDA-IDC MoU Advances Date Palm Sustainability

Dr. Mahmoud El Solh

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November 17, 2025

In Memory of Dr. Mahmoud El Solh

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Participants listening intently to Dr. Theib Oweis, Director, Integrated Water and Land Management Program

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November 01, 2015

ICARDA’s capacity building efforts for managing salinity

Workshop on ‘Mesopotamia: sustainable development and agriculture’, at Expo Milan 2015

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November 01, 2015

Expo Milano 2015: Mesopotamia, cradle of agriculture

(L to R) Dr. Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair, BGRI, Dr. Jeanie Borlaug Laube, Chair, BGRI, Dr. David Hodson, CIMMYT-Ethiopia, Dr. Mahmoud Solh, Director General, ICARDA, Dr. Hans Braun, Director, CRP Wheat & Dr. Robert Park, University of Sydney

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November 01, 2015

Witnessing benefits of wheat improvement research

Dr. Mahmoud Solh, ICARDA’s Director General, explaining the importance of ICARDA’s genebank to Arwa Damon, CNN reporter

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November 01, 2015

ICARDA’s seed retrieval mission from Svalbard Seed Vault

An International Conference co-organized by ICARDA and INRA, Morocco

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October 29, 2015

ICARDA announces International Conference on Pulses for Drylands

CGIAR gene bank managers meeting in Izmir.

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October 29, 2015

How Turkey can help to guarantee future world food supplies

The Gumara-Maksegnit watershed in northwest Ethiopia

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October 21, 2015

An Integrated Watershed Approach to Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods

Andrea Gros, the new Head of CODIS

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October 20, 2015

ICARDA welcomes new Head of CODIS

Closing the gender gap in barley farming boosts production and incomes in Ethiopia

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October 13, 2015

When women farmers lead the way

On October 1, GRS staff prepare a FIGS subset of durum wheat from ICARDA’s active collection and then dispatched to Australia.

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October 07, 2015

Press Release: ICARDA Compound and GeneBank facilities in Syria remain intact

Participants of the 10th annual meeting of ICARDA’s Date Palm Project.

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October 04, 2015

Tenth annual meeting of ICARDA’s Date Palm Project

Idlib 5, the new high yielding lentil variety released in Syria.

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October 04, 2015

A new high-yielding lentil variety ‘Idlib 5’ released in Syria

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