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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.

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.

ICARDA's supplemental irrigation (SI) packages help overcome water scarcity by supplying only the minimum amount of water required for rainfed crops, to stabilize and increase yields when rain fails and provide enough water for healthy plant growth.

Conservation agriculture helps to improve soil fertility and enhance crop water productivity, while minimizing the total production cost.

ICARDA researchers develop and disseminate practical, low-cost options to protect vegetation, soil and water resources, using a people-centered community-led approach that integrates technologies, such as climate-smart crops alongside vegetation, land, and water-management techniques.

As demand for wheat grows rapidly across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, ICARDA is urgently addressing the growing climatic challenges, pests, and diseases that hinder its domestic production by generating an effective wheat-breeding strategy...

ICARDA's Durum Wheat Breeding Program aims to deliver superior varieties with increased yields against a backdrop of rapid climate change. ICARDA's durum wheat program also seeks to reverse the erosion of the crop's genetic diversity resulting...