Restoring rangelands: the art of flexible livestock management
"Restoring rangelands in Tunisia involves much more than just planting shrubs and trees. It is about managing the frequency and duration of animal grazing on a day-to-day basis." - Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Lebanese endurance athlete Michael Haddad embarked on a series of ‘Walks for Life’ in North Africa and Norway to raise global visibility of the impacts of climate change on rural farmers in the region and beyond.
Harnessing the Power of Female Dryland Cooperatives
To celebrate International Rural Women's Day, ICARDA is releasing two videos showing the imperative of supporting female cooperative members through quality, technology training, and skill development.
Empowering women associations as drivers for agro-ecological transformation to generate income for Mountain farming communities. This project will also promote ‘circular economies’
Low-cost machinery for better rural livelihoods in Tunisia
By providing affordable and context-relevant machinery, ICARDA is boosting Tunisian farmers' income and creating new services for the wider rural community.
Collaboration Improves Water Productivity in Egypt
ICARDA works key partners to enhance water productivity and higher 'crop-per-drop' efficiency in Egypt by improving irrigation methods, water systems, and technology.
ICARDA's legume expert Dr. Shiv Agrawal discusses the benefits of pulses from a nutritional and ecosystem lens - as Indian Nutrition Week is underway in the subcontinent.
In this short Q&A, Senior Scientist Rachid Moussadek reflects on what caused the fertilizer shortage, its impacts on global food security and on dryland farmers - and how ICARDA can help.
