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Heat-tolerant wheat varieties are generating up to six tons per hectare in northern Nigeria

January 09, 2019

Breeding resilient crops of the future

Confronted with extreme temperatures, widespread land degradation, and increasing water scarcity, dryland farmers often struggle to raise their productivity and yields. Production of staple crops such as pulses, wheat, and barley is limited in...

Publication

January 09, 2019

Genome-Wide Variation, Candidate Regions and Genes Associated With Fat Deposition and Tail Morphology in Ethiopian Indigenous Sheep

Variations in body weight and in the distribution of body fat are associated with feed availability, thermoregulation, and energy reserve. Ethiopia is characterized by distinct agro-ecological and human ethnic farmer diversity of ancient origin...

Blog

January 07, 2019

Shifting gender roles across Tunisia rangelands

New and surprising insights of an ICARDA study on livestock production identify steps to reduce the workload of rural women.

Publication

January 06, 2019

Making Egyptian women’s agricultural labor visible and improving their access to productive assets

In rural Egypt, social norms frame women as “helpers” to their families and husbands instead of as workers in their own right. Women are assumed not to contribute to agriculture or participate in irrigation. However, a series of recent studies...

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