FAO/ICARDA/AOAD Online Workshop on Digital Platforms for Rainwater-Harvesting Interventions
On 12 June ICARDA, in collaboration with FAO and AOAD, conducted a Regional Workshop on Web-Based Digital Platform to Support Decision Making for Context-Specific Scaling of Rainwater-Harvesting Interventions
Michael Haddad Successfully Delivers ICARDA seeds to Svalbard Vault
Paralyzed Lebanese Athlete and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Michael Haddad completed a 5-kilometer Artic Walk yesterday, delivering a package of precious ICARDA seeds from the Middle East and North Africa to the Global Seed Vault in Norway.
The “Carlotta Award 2022” second edition is promoted by ENEA, the Academy of Sciences known as the XL, and by the European Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI and sponsored by ICARDA, the Wheat Initiative International Program, and EUCARPIA...
Toward Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Tunisian Citrus Sector: Impact of Pricing Policies on Water Resources Reallocation
This study aims to analyse Tunisian farmers’ ability to pay (ATP) in a citrus area and propose a penalising price strategy based on the block‐pricing process to decrease over‐irrigation without affecting farmers’ incomes. The methodology is...
Preparation and Curation of Multiyear, Multilocation, Multitrait Datasets
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful approach to dissect genotype-phenotype associations and identify causative regions. However, this power is highly influenced by the accuracy of the phenotypic data. To obtain accurate...
Experimental on-farm trials data of faba bean and wheat intercropping field validation in Lebanon and Morocco
This data paper describes the content of four datasets col- lected by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) as a partner in the project “Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and...
Genetic and non-genetic parameter estimates for growth traits and Kleiber ratios in Dorper × indigenous sheep
Genetic improvement programme will only be successful when accompanied by a good understanding of the influence of different environmental factors, knowledge of the genetic parameters and the genetic relationships between the traits of interest...
Genomic analysis of 10 years of artificial selection in community-based breeding programs in two Ethiopian indigenous sheep breeds
In recent times, community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) have been advocated as the best strategy for genetic improvement of local breeds in smallholder farms in developing countries. Since 2009, CBBPs have been implemented for Ethiopian Bonga...
