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.
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”.
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...
ICARDA’s livestock-based innovation success story gets an award
ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock which is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund
ICARDA is thrilled to announce that our story on...
A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by ICARDA and ICRISAT scientists which will facilitate the breeding of more climate-smart, disease-tolerant chickpea crop varieties for better food security.
How satellite observations help lessen the contribution of agriculture to climate change
CGIAR focuses on the transformation of rural farming food systems through better agriculture to help communities adapt to complex and integrated challenges such as climate change and population growth, and provide food and water security, and...
VIRTUAL WEBINAR – POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WHEAT IN UZBEKISTAN
VIRTUAL WEBINAR – POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WHEAT IN UZBEKISTAN
Seed Systems, varietal adoption, and impacts
November 22, 2021
10:00 – 12:30 Tashkent time (UTC+05:00)
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