Revisiting Vetch with Farmers Promotes Zero-Till Practice
Taoufiq Ben Ammar lives on one of the dales in Chouarnia (district of Siliana, Tunisia) and his livelihood is intrinsically linked to what he sells from wheat cropping, weaned lambs and a couple of dairy cows. He is one of 18 farmers in...
Third visit Activities Report on Ph.D. Research Fellowship (Sufian Suliman Mohammed), from 10 May - 9 September 2015
The third visit to ICARDA site was organized to do part of the doctoral study - needed to do the quality analysis for the wheat materials that was planted in the field experiments at second season, in addition to association mapping analysis.
Press Release: ICARDA safeguards world heritage of genetic resources during the conflict in Syria
AMMAN, Jordan: The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) has requested in September 2015 to be provided with part of its genetic materials that has been duplicated in the Svalbard Seed Vault in Norway. ICARDA needs...
Impacts of international wheat improvement research: 1994 - 2014
Improved wheat varieties developed using CGIAR breeding lines, either in cross-pollinations or as direct releases, cover more than 100 million hectares — nearly two-thirds of the area sown to improved wheat worldwide, new research (Lantican et...
Expo Milano 2015: ICARDA’s take on global food security challenges in dry areas
Speaking at the pre-ICAE (International Conference of Agricultural Economists) event organized by the European Commission, the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium...
Meeting of G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists: Food security & reducing food loss and waste
The impacts of agricultural research on food security and issues related to reducing food loss and waste (FLW) were discussed at the fourth Meeting of G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) that took place in Izmir, at the International...
Priming effect of 13C-labelled wheat straw in no-tillage soil under drying and wetting cycles in the Loess Plateau of China
he objectives of this study were to determine the effects of drying and wetting (DW) cycles on soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralisation and on the priming effect (PE) induced by the addition of 13C-labelled wheat straw to long-term no-tillage...
Partnership agreement with Palestine and UNDP on agricultural Research
A new partnership agreement was signed between the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, UNDP and ICARDA to link agricultural research in Palestine to the sustainable development goals. This collaboration rests on the shared goal of enhancing...
