Recognizing Kabuli chickpea's ability to grow in poor, rainfed soils, ICARDA's breeding program improves the crop by breeding-in heat and disease resistance traits while introducing the crop into rotation with conventional cereal crops and other...
With expertise in the Near East Fertile Crescent, ICARDA has long recognized the potential of lentil and is seeking ways to take advantage of its high nutritional value and low water use that makes it well adapted to cereal-based cropping in dry...
Fatten Khudershah is the Knowledge Management Assistant at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team and is based in Syria. Fatten started her work with MEL in 2021 as Knowledge Products Curator. Her work focuses on digitalizing...
Elvin Carol Kohen is Project and Knowledge Management Curator at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team, and she is based in France. Elvin ensures timely support services to projects and prepares monthly reports on the support...
Joren Verbist is a Technology Systematization Officer at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team. He is based in the Netherlands. Together with the MEL colleagues and ICARDA scientists, Joren documents promising Sustainable Land...
Ruth Mawia is a Project and Knowledge Management Curator at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. She is based in Kenya. Ruth is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree program in Agriculture & Applied Economics from the...
Valentina De Col is an Agricultural Information System Officer at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), Knowledge Management sub-team. She is based in Germany. In mid-2020, she joined ICARDA, and since January 2022, she has been...