Egyptian Stakeholder Consultation on CGIAR’s Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform
Egyptian partners and stakeholders will join CGIAR and ICARDA in Cairo, Egypt on the 28th of June 2022 to provide their input and to further refine CGIAR’s Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform-IDFIP’s technical mandate through reviewing...
A day-long workshop will take place to introduce the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) 2030 Initiative to key stakeholders in Central, West Asia, and North Africa (CWANA).
Egypt-Sudan Inception Workshop of CGIAR F2R-CWANA Initiative
This week sees significant advances in agricultural research-for-development (R4D) in Egypt, with the upcoming Egypt and Sudan Inception Workshop of the CGIAR Initiative From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia, and North Africa (F2R-CWANA).
ICARDA former visiting PhD student, Damiano Puglisi, wins SIGA Prize
ICARDA is proud to announce that our former visiting Ph.D. student, Dr. Damiano Puglisi, has been awarded the Carlo Jucci Prize for Plant Breeding and Biotechnology from the Italian Society of Agrarian Genetics (SIGA). Dr. Puglisi visited ICARDA...
Evapotranspiration and Vegetation Cover Classifications Maps Based on Cloud Computing at the Arab Countries Scale
According to the most recent Köppen–Geiger classification, Arab countries are divided into seven climate classes. Ground data availability is limited in developing countries, and ground meteorological data are scarce and concentrated in a few...
Global pattern of soil priming effect intensity and its environmental drivers
The microbial priming effect – the decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) induced by plant inputs – has long been considered an important driver of SOC dynamics, yet we have limited understanding about the direction, intensitiy, and drivers...
CGIAR F2R-CWANA Initiative to launch in Uzbekistan
This week sees major advances for agricultural research-for-development (R4D) in Uzbekistan with the launch of the partner-led CGIAR F2R-CWANA Initiative
Analysis of genetic parameters and genetic trends for early growth and reproductive traits of Doyogena sheep managed under community-based breeding program
This study aims to estimate genetic parameters and genetic trends for early growth and reproductive traits of Doyogena sheep. Data used in the study were collected over 6 years (2013–2018). Studied traits were birth weight (BWT), weaning weight...
ICARDA-FAO CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR IRAQI RESEARCHERS
ICARDA’s Capacity Development Unit and the Seed and International Nurseries, and Seed Health (SINH) Unit developed and organized a series of capacity development workshops for Iraqi agricultural engineers and farmers to develop the skills and knowledge of the target farmers and agricultural experts in the areas of seed sector development and greenhouse vegetable production.
