ICARDA Awards & Recognition

ICARDA’s Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal is presented with the Excellence Award in the field of Pulses Improvement by the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD) and ICAR- Indian Institution of Pulses and Research (ICAR-IIPR)

Dr. Aynalem Haile’s work is honored by the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, a prestigious society of scholars founded in 2010 to promote sciences and bring about development, prosperity, and improved health for the people of Ethiopia.

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.

ICARDA's former visiting Ph.D. student, Dr. Damiano Puglisi, has been awarded the Carlo Jucci Prize for Plant Breeding and Biotechnology from the Italian Society of Agrarian Genetics (SIGA).

ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team (MEL) and Social, Economy and Policies Team  are thrilled to have received an award for innovation in halting land degradation through a tool that helps better inform land planning and the undertaking of restoration activities.

Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, Team Leader of ICARDA’s GeoAgro for Sustainable Agroecosystems, was awarded the India Agri-Extension Award 2021 in Innovation in Agricultural Extension.  

ICARDA researcher Médiha Khamassi Khbou received the Best Poster Presentation award during the latest 14th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases held in March 2021