Improved Sheep Fattening Skills for Ethiopia's Youth
ICARDA equips unemployed Ethiopian youth with an innovative package of sheep-fattening practices and technologies to improve their income and access to market enterprise.
Community-based breeding programs for sheep and goats
ICARDA’s community-based breeding program focuses on indigenous breeds and is suited to smallholder conditions, making it a sustainable alternative to conventional methods.
Community based in-situ conservation of dryland agrobiodiversity
ICARDA has developed a holistic community-driven approach for promoting in-situ/on-farm conservation of landraces and wild relatives in non-tropical drylands.
Low-Cost, Mobile Reproductive Labs for Better Sheep and Goat Breeding
ICARDA established Africa’s first reproductive platform composed of a network of laboratories placed strategically to enhance the delivery of improved genetics for the major breeds of sheep and goats in Ethiopia.
ICARDA biofortified lentil varieties can mature quickly within the short fallow season and are a rich source of protein, iron, and zinc, helping fight regional deficiencies.
ICARDA’s supplemental irrigation innovation is a simple but highly effective technology that allows farmers to plant and manage crops at the optimal time without having to wait for unpredictable rainfall.
An SRM Toolbox for Restoring Degraded Agrosilvopastoral Ecosystems
ICARDA has developed a site-specific toolbox to manage agro-silvo-pastoral production systems sustainably in the dry areas, achieving a neutral level of degradation and offering a strong potential to restore degraded rangelands.