ICARDA efforts to preserve its valuable genebank collection pay off
Since the relocation of ICARDA's genebanks from Syria to Lebanon and Morocco in 2012, the organization has conserved and multiplied its collection to promote food security in the drylands of Africa and Asia and to ensure its availability for the international research community.
Revolving the Seeds and Diffusing the Beans: Reviving Faba bean Cultivation in Ethiopian Highlands
Faba bean cultivation has been confronted by many challenges over the past two decades particularly in the Amhara region. The main production constraints are introduction of parasitic weed (Orobanche crenata) and emerging diseases like faba bean gall in central and northern Ethiopia.
Fellowship for women agricultural researchers in MENA sets future leaders on the path to success
In May of this year, 22 women from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region won a competitive fellowship in agricultural research, sponsored by the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
18-20 September 2019. Kassel. The annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (TROPENTAG) was jointly organised by the universities of Berlin, Bonn...
