Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW)
Period of Implementations
Jun 01, 2016 - Feb 28, 2020
Total budget
717,952
Project Name
Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW)
About
The overall project increases surveillance activities that maintain and improve established and successful core surveillance platforms for stem rust, with some inclusion of stripe rust with a special focus on East-Africa. At the same time it promotes improved genetic lines resistant to disease to increase yield, improving food security.
Impact
Goals
To increase the rate of genetic gain and systematically reduce the world’s vulnerability to wheat diseases, heat and drought stress, benefitting smallholder wheat farmers and consumers in East Africa and South Asia.
Objectives
To develop and promote wheat lines with resistance to rusts.
Impact pathways
ICARDA's improved wheat lines will strengthen the surveillance platforms on yellow, leaf and stem rust, contributing to reduce poverty by increasing wheat productivity.
Locations
Azerbaijan
Egypt
Eritrea
Georgia
Iraq
Lebanon
Türkiye
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Macao SAR China
40.5, 47.5
27, 30
15, 39
42, 43.5
33, 44
33.8333, 35.8333
39, 35
41, 64
15, 48
22.1667, 113.55
Project Management
