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Grazing Sheep Flock in Oued Sbaihia - Tunisia

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December 11, 2025

Strengthening Sheep and Goat Breeding in Tunisia

Egyptian farmer in a wheat field - Photo: Ahmed ElSheemy/ICARDA

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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

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Parts of the Mediterranean basin are some of the regions predicted to be worst affected by climate change.

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April 30, 2015

A resilience agenda for the Mediterranean

Greece encompasses the primary and secondary centers of diversity for several crops of global significance, including faba bean.

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April 30, 2015

Collecting mission targets Greece

The capacity strengthening initiatives targeted date palm production – a strategic crop across the Arabian Peninsula.

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April 30, 2015

Date palm: a strategic crop for the Arabian Peninsula

H. E. Ato Tefera Derbw (Right), Ethiopia’s Minister of Agriculture, signing the MoU with ICARDA’s Director General, Dr. Mahmoud Solh.

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April 30, 2015

Consolidating ICARDA's partnership with Ethiopia

A failure to sufficiently consider gender will only partially transform sub-Saharan Africa’s wheat sector.

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April 26, 2015

Addressing the gender deficit in wheat production

The brainstorming session convened by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (pictured seated, first row, center-left) at ICARDA’s Amman offices initiated discussions on what a new vision for Jordan’s ‘badia’ would look like.

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April 22, 2015

A new vision for the 'Badia'

The agreement was signed by Dr. Mahmoud Solh, ICARDA’s Director General (left), and Mr. Abdessalem Ould Ahmed, FAO Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for NENA (right).

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April 08, 2015

Strengthening ICARDA’s partnership with FAO

Signing the agreement.Pictured seated are Dr. Mahmoud Solh (Left) and Prof. Ibrahim Adam Eldukheri of ARC. Also pictured are H. E. Minister of Agriculture, Eng. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, and Sudanese Vice-President, H. E. Hassabo Mohamed Abderahman.

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April 08, 2015

Raising Sudan’s wheat production

Dr. Owen Lavar Brough, pictured recently, developed ICARDA's main station at Tel Hadya.

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April 08, 2015

Dr. Owen Lavar Brough

Grasspea is popular with India's farmers, offering low input requirements and easy adaptation to harsh environments.

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March 22, 2015

Grasspea: back on the menu for India’s agriculture

Dr. Mahmoud Solh, pictured with Dr. Peter Harry Carstensen, Chairman of Gregor Mendel Foundation (Left), and Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, State Secretary of German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Right)

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March 19, 2015

ICARDA Receives Gregor Mendel Innovation Prize for Ensuring Safekeeping of its Genebank Collection

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March 10, 2015

Wheat Gets Hot for Sub-Saharan Africa Farmers

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