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Amsalech in Bonga
July 14, 2021

Women and Youth can Transform Economies - if Given the Chance

One year ago, Amsalech owned just a single skinny ewe, and her children stayed home to carry out household chores or work in the family farm. After enrolling in ICARDA’s sheep-fattening program, she became the leader of her sheep-fattening group and now earns profits comparable to experienced sheep farmers in the country.
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Miguel Sanchez-Garcia at a field day
July 11, 2021

Modernizing crop breeding to safeguard tomorrow's populations

In the Middle East and North Africa region, the population increases by two percent every year, faster than any other global region except Sub-Saharan Africa. We think it will double in the coming 50 years. Just to maintain the current level of supply, food production will need to increase twofold as well.
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Enhancing Water and Land Productivity
June 09, 2021

Climate-Smart Water Use and Management

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.
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ICARDA's innovations offer sustainable means of raising productivity
June 09, 2021

Conservation Agriculture

Conservation agriculture helps to improve soil fertility and enhance crop water productivity, while minimizing the total production cost.
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Better Soil, Nutrients, and Agronomy
June 09, 2021

Better Soil, Nutrients, and Agronomy

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.
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Wheat crops at the conservation agriculture site in El Krib, Siliana, Tunisia Photo by Katrin Park_ICARDA
June 03, 2021

Wheat

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...
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Durum Wheat Field
May 29, 2021

Durum Wheat

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...
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Bread Wheat
May 29, 2021

Bread Wheat

ICARDA's bread wheat breeding program applies both conventional and molecular approaches to develop and distribute elite bread wheat genotypes, including shuttle breeding, doubled haploids, speed breeding, marker-assisted selection, and critical...
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Date Palm
May 29, 2021

Date Palm

ICARDA is developing date palm production systems by utilizing and fine-tuning available modern technology. Current research projects are designed to address problem-solving, including crop management and protection, water and soil management...
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Spineless Cactus
May 29, 2021

Spineless Cactus

With its multi-functionality, spineless cactus has become one of the most promising 'under-utilized species' of the dry regions. Used for centuries by traditional rural farmers, it is only since ICARDA's peer-reviewed research and dryland...
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