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Regional Ministers and NARS thumbs up the Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform
March 16, 2022

A Green Light for Regional Collaboration in Desert Farming

During the high-level CGIAR/KIADPAI Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform side event at the 7th edition of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation, Ministers of Agriculture, NARS Representatives, CGIAR High-Level Delegates, and regional experts and stakeholders, met to give the platform a green light for further development.
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March 01, 2022

An Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform To Transform Food, Nutrition, and Water Security under Climate Change

Regional governments, researchers, and donors will soon meet at a closed event to establish the world's first Integrated Desert Farming Innovation platform
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Wheat field in Ethiopia
February 24, 2022

Ethiopia paves the way to wheat self-sufficiency

The TAAT project sets Ethiopia firmly on the path to achieving wheat production self-sufficiency by 2025, reducing dependence on expensive imports, boosting the economy, and creating thousands of jobs and business opportunities.  
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February 09, 2022

Dr. Sanjay Rajaram posthumously receives the Republic of India’s Padma Bhushan Award

Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, World Food Prize winner and former scientist of ICARDA and CIMMYT was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of the Republic of India. The Padma Bhushan is India’s third highest civilian honor, awarded to those...

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Plot-level impact of improved lentil varieties in Bangladesh.
February 02, 2022

Study on Impacts of Improved Lentil Varieties in Bangladesh

ICARDA scientists published an open-access paper on plot-level impacts of improved lentil varieties in Bangladesh in PLOS ONE journal.
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ICARDA's DG and his accompanying delegation meeting with Egypt's Minister of Environment
January 24, 2022

CGIAR Discusses Climate Adaptation with Egypt's Minister of Environment

21 January 2022, Cairo - Egypt's Minister of Environment, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, and CGIAR's CWANA Regional Director and ICARDA Director-General Eng. Mr. Aly Abousabaa met to discuss how to deliver Egypt's action plan for climate change adaptation...

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Dr. Devkota describes her lentil/quinoa relay-cropping experiment to Moroccan farmers
January 19, 2022

Dryland Intercropping of Lentil and Quinoa is Sustainable and Profitable

A factsheet detailing ICARDA's success at relay-cropping lentil and quinoa crops in Morocco has been added to the World Overview of Conservation Approach and Technologies (WOCAT), which database compiles over 1500 sustainable land management practices.  
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ICARDA's Virologist Safaa Kumari (left) during wheat and chickpea pests survey
January 13, 2022

Safaa Kumari - BBC 100 Woman - on a knowledge-sharing road trip

Dr. Safaa Kumari, ICARDA's Virologist and Seed Health Laboratory Manager, and BBC 100 Woman 2020, recently completed an extensive knowledge-sharing tour. Safaa, students, and researchers from academic institutions across the region discussed...

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Jordanian rangeland farmer Mr. Ali Askar from Al Majeddyeh village with Prof. Tsunekawa of Tottori University (Japan) inspect a rainwater harvesting research site.
January 11, 2022

ICARDA and Japan: Decades of Scientific Partnership 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of CGIAR, the Japanese Agricultural Research Quarterly journal (JIRCAS) published a special issue describing the long and productive scientific collaboration between CGIAR and Japanese scientists and universities in early December 2021. It includes a review article on their work with ICARDA on dryland farming approaches. 
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Cotton field in Uzbekistan
January 04, 2022

Heat's Impact on Cotton Production in Uzbekistan

An ICARDA study on cotton in Uzbekistan shows that cotton-producing regions situated at lower elevations and latitudes are more productive than those higher up in the mountains.  
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