Chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer are the leading cause of death around the globe. In response, ICARDA in collaboration with Tuscia University in Italy launched a project called MEDWHEALTH to promote a healthy, nutrient-rich diet across Mediterranean countries.
The food pellets restoring degraded rangelands in Tunisia
Animal feed is scarce in the arid regions of southern Tunisia. To help farmers and pastoralists access feed, ICARDA, its local partners and CGIAR have boosted the local manufacturing of food pellets using available raw material.
ICARDA and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently organized a two-day workshop to document and share the outcomes of a project that uniquely establishes the amount of water used by key crops in regional settings, providing vital data for farming approaches and government policies.
ICARDA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a bi-weekly webinar series over three months on the measurement of evapotranspiration led by global experts and attracting over 1,700 international and regional participants.
Former ICARDA Director General Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy Awarded for Lifetime Achievements
Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, a former Director-General of ICARDA, was recently recognized by at the “Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture”.
The newly launched [email protected] project researches and designs a sociotechnical package of affordable and scalable Soil and Water Conservation Technologies (SWCT) to improve soil fertility in diverse farming agroecosystems in North and Central West Tunisia.
ICT2Scale demonstrates the vital importance of ICT tools for dryland farmers
For two years, ICT2Scale has leveraged multiple ICT tools to support dryland Tunisian farmers access vital commodity price information across the country. As the project comes to an end, we reflect on its major successes, and on its legacy.
ICARDA Signs MoU with the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
ICARDA is thrilled to announce that Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR CWANA Regional Director, and Mr. Ashwin B Panya, Secretary General of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), have signed a...
Morocco to Convert 1M ha to Conservation Agriculture - how ICARDA/INRA Fit In
On November 12th, the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests announced that up to one million hectares of cereals will be cultivated under Conservation Agriculture by 2030.