To most eyes, deserts look like the end of the line for agriculture - too dry to grow, too hot to handle, and too degraded to offer much promise. But that assumption is being overturned by a science-driven rethink of agriculture in places long considered beyond saving.
New Book Explores the Political Economy of Egypt’s Wheat Sector
A new publication from ICARDA and its national research partners provides a timely analysis of the power relations, policy frameworks, and institutional factors that influence how wheat innovations are transferred — or not — from research centre breeding programs to farmers’ fields.
A Woman’s Journey in Community-Based Breeding in Ethiopia
In rural Ethiopia, 60-year-old Ayelech is transforming lives through ICARDA’s Community-Based Breeding Program (CBBP), empowering women farmers, improving livestock quality, and driving inclusive rural development
Scaling Rhizobial Inoculation for Leguminous Forage Crops
To address Tunisia’s shortage of quality livestock feed, through CGIAR Research Initiative on Agroecology and the SWC@Scale-ProSol Project, ICARDA and national partners, the National Agronomic Research Institute (INRAT) and the Office of...
ICARDA participated in the Agriculture Research Center Conference and Exhibition organized by Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) and the Agricultural Research Center (ARC)
ICARDA launched Pakistan’s first-ever Community-Based Goat Breeding Program (CBBP), a science-based, locally-led initiative designed to improve the productivity and resilience of smallholder farmers in goat breeding.
ICARDA, UNDP, EU Unite for Climate Action and Food Security
Brussels, June 12, 2025 - Leaders from around the world laced up their walking shoes for a very special kind of diplomacy: the European Union (EU) Walk for Climate.
Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture joins ICARDA-INRA field day at Marchouch Research Station
Marchouch, Morocco | May 28, 2025 – On an unseasonably hot spring day that mirrors Morocco’s growing climate challenges, ICARDA, in collaboration with Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) held their annual Field Day at...
