Our crop-livestock experts
Our research teams provide integrated packages that help farmers to implement our innovations and new approaches and allow them to flourish:
Integrated crop-livestock production systems cushion each sector from external pressure and optimize economic, social and environmental conditions.
ICARDA's integrated approach to crop-livestock systems includes animal nutrition, feed and fodder production through the sustainable land management (SLM) and use of natural resources, and improved genetic stock.
ICARDA's SLM increases soil organic matter and nutrient cycling, fosters biodiversity, promotes diversification and improves soil health by implementing cereal-forage legume rotations, and using the strategic planting of shrubs and vegetation to restore degraded agro-pastoral land.
ICARDA's livestock genetic improvement projects are practical and low-cost, and enhance farmer access to improved genetics for small ruminants (sheep and goats) through the optimization of economic, social and environmental conditions.
