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Dr.Rajaram
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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Improved Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Sustainable Agriculture
January 03, 2022

Farmer Field Workshop on Improved Rainwater Harvesting Systems

ICARDA, in partnership with the Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), with support from the Government of India to the CGIAR, is implementing a project on improving the economic water productivity (income per unit water applied) of the Khadin-based farming systems. The project couples Khadin with a lined rainwater harvesting structure and applies water using farmer-led solar-powered irrigation systems. 
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Young Professionals Field Visit
December 29, 2021

ICARDA hosts African Young Professionals Workshop

Following The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and ICARDA’s MoU signing, ICARDA’s Soil, Water, and Agronomy (SWA) Team actively participated in the 5th African Regional Conference organized by ICID between November 23rd and 30th, 2021, in Morocco.
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APRP Training Workshop on Integrated Production, Protection, and Profitability Management in Greenhouses
December 16, 2021

Training on modern protected agricultural practices for the Arabian Peninsula partner countries

Agriculture Research Center in Egypt (ARC) jointly organized a five-day training workshop on integrated production, protection, and profitability management in greenhouses in December 2021, in Cairo, Egypt.
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