Tenth annual meeting of ICARDA’s Date Palm Project
The importance of scientific innovation and technology for improving date palm production systems and the industry in the Gulf region was emphasized at the 10th annual steering committee and technical coordination meeting of ICARDA’s Date Palm...
A new high-yielding lentil variety ‘Idlib 5’ released in Syria
In Syria, the lentil crops suffer heavily from a soil borne disease called Fusarium wilt, which can cause as high as 72% yield losses in wilt-infested fields. For a successful lentil crop, farmers require a high yielding cultivar with wilt...
Prestigious award from JIRCAS for ICARDA scientist
Dr Atef Swelam, an irrigation scientist at ICARDA and coordinator of the Nile Delta project has been selected for the prestigious ‘Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers 2015’. This award recognizes the outstanding...
Mouna Mechri lives in Tunisia and is completing her last year of PhD on agronomy. Recently, she was selected for training under the Young Agricultural Scientists Program (YASP), a component of the "Enhancing Food Security in Arab Countries"...
