Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz is a Seed Systems Specialist and Plant Breeder with over 30 years of experience in research for development in developing and developed countries. He focuses on seed sector development and provides strategic and technical...
Irène Carpentier has been a geographer at CIRAD (UMR SELMET) since June 2022, and assigned to ICARDA in Tunis (Tunisia) since 2023. She is working on the territorial governance of rangelands and collective action for sustainable pastoral...
I am working on pre-breeding for cereals at ICARDA. My work focuses on accelerating the identification and introgression of useful gene bank material. I also focus on using the diversity in the more distal crop wild relatives of wheat and barley...
Rangeland Ecology and Management Specialist/Country Coordinator - Tunisia
Azaiez Ouled Belgacem
Experienced Senior Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Arid and Desert Ecosystems Restoration and Rehabilitation, Sustainable Development, Biodiversity, Natural...
Drought-tolerant and water use efficient forage production in drylands
Across global drylands, forage crops (animal feed as pasture, crop residue, or cereal) are essential to smallholder farmers to sustain their livestock throughout the year, especially in winter, when animal grazing may be restricted. By...
ICARDA’s RIDE (Restoration Initiative on Dryland Ecosystems) team addresses land degradation in dryland ecosystems. RIDE targets biophysical processes but focuses on drivers and potential solutions to degradation that consider socio-economic aspects and community-based solutions.
Climate-resilient and productive small ruminants (sheep and goats)
Since its foundation in 1977, ICARDA has worked on small ruminant production in drylands, and its Small Ruminant team contributes to more productive and environmentally friendly livestock production systems.
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...
