Wild relatives add significant agronomic improvement and disease resistance to lentils
ICARDA scientists published a new study that analyzes the introduction of two wild lentil taxa, Lens culinaris ssp. orientalis and Lens ervoides, into the backgrounds of cultivated varieties.
ICARDA's Climate Change Advisor, Dr. Roula Majdalani, discusses her professional journey and contributions to climate-related agricultural science and why groundbreaking research is vital to inform policymaking that facilitates the scale-up and adoption of transformative climate-smart approaches.
Bringing Back Food Legumes in Wheat-Based Cropping System in the Highlands of Ethiopia
The Africa RISING project diversifies wheat-based production systems by integrating high yielding and pest resistant food legume crops into the cropping system. Easy access for farmers to quality seeds produced by community seed producers is the key to the project.
How our partners help set flexible and achievable goals for CWANA
The F2R-CWANA partner consultation meeting in Cairo was an opportunity for partners to share updates and knowledge, identify research gaps, prioritize, and explore opportunities.
Symposium of Near East and North Africa Regional Network for Evapotranspiration
ICARDA in partnership with the FAO, held a regional symposium to bring together the NENA Evapotranspiration Network of experts in the field of evapotranspiration.
AgMIP MENA Launch: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project MENA Regional Platform
The new AgMIP-MENA Platform enables global research teams and national institutions to build vital analysis, fore-planning, and early-warning systems to strengthen agri-food systems.
Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director CWANA, recently led a series of high-level consultations on priorities for the ICARDA breeding research agenda until 2030.
Juliana Anchang is a Research Fellow at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. She is based in Cameroon. Juliana contributes to the design and enhancement of institutional- and project-level MEL systems, tools including the...
Lyudmila Berezina is an administrative assistant at ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team. She started her work with MEL in 2022, based in Uzbekistan. Lyudmila provides administrative support for the MEL team and serves as the...
Dr. Ali Mohammed Oumer is an Agricultural Economist. His current research focuses on the analysis of farm productivity and efficiency, technology adoption, scaling, and impact evaluation, natural resource economics, and value chain analysis in...