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Women using the newly-developed ingredients to make traditional dishes
December 15, 2021

Traditional nutritional!

Chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer are the leading cause of death around the globe. In response, ICARDA in collaboration with Tuscia University in Italy launched a project called MEDWHEALTH to promote a healthy, nutrient-rich diet across Mediterranean countries.
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Sheep in rural Tunisia
December 14, 2021

The food pellets restoring degraded rangelands in Tunisia  

Animal feed is scarce in the arid regions of southern Tunisia. To help farmers and pastoralists access feed, ICARDA, its local partners and CGIAR have boosted the local manufacturing of food pellets using available raw material.
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Rania Gamal, ICARDA's PhD Research Fellow, measuring Evapotranspiration (ET) using instruments introduced in Egypt
December 12, 2021

New and unique data on how much water crops use

ICARDA and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently organized a two-day workshop to document and share the outcomes of a project that uniquely establishes the amount of water used by key crops in regional settings, providing vital data for farming approaches and government policies.
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ICARDA / FAO WEBINARS ON MEASURING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
December 08, 2021

ICARDA/FAO SUCCESSFUL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MEASUREMENT WEBINARS

ICARDA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a bi-weekly webinar series over three months on the measurement of evapotranspiration led by global experts and attracting over 1,700 international and regional participants. 
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Dr. El-Beltagy (second from right) during a visit to ICARDA's office in Egypt
December 08, 2021

Former ICARDA Director General Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy Awarded for Lifetime Achievements

Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, a former Director-General of ICARDA, was recently recognized by at the “Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture”.
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World Soil Day 2021
December 02, 2021

Social Soil

The newly launched [email protected] project researches and designs a sociotechnical package of affordable and scalable Soil and Water Conservation Technologies (SWCT) to improve soil fertility in diverse farming agroecosystems in North and Central West Tunisia.
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Tunisian village market
December 02, 2021

ICT2Scale demonstrates the vital importance of ICT tools for dryland farmers

For two years, ICT2Scale has leveraged multiple ICT tools to support dryland Tunisian farmers access vital commodity price information across the country. As the project comes to an end, we reflect on its major successes, and on its legacy.
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November 30, 2021

ICARDA Signs MoU with the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

ICARDA is thrilled to announce that Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR CWANA Regional Director, and Mr. Ashwin B Panya, Secretary General of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), have signed a...

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Dr. Mina Devkota demonstrating CA machinery in Morocco
November 28, 2021

Morocco to Convert 1M ha to Conservation Agriculture - how ICARDA/INRA Fit In

On November 12th, the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests announced that up to one million hectares of cereals will be cultivated under Conservation Agriculture by 2030.
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Certificate of Award
November 24, 2021

ICARDA’s livestock-based innovation success story gets an award 

ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock which is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund 

ICARDA is thrilled to announce that our story on...

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