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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
WorldFish19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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ICARDA receives ACSAD shield in recognition of its contribution to regional agricultural science
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)20.07.21-
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Egypt, July 11 ICARDA Director General Mr Aly Abousabaa recently met with His Excellency Dr. Nasr…
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CGIAR Kicks Off the CWANA Consultations
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)18.07.21-
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CGIAR Kicks Off the CWANA Consultations Early this July, CGIAR invited over 120 delegates from…
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Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)10.06.21Dr. Michael Baum, ICARDA’s Acting Deputy Director General for Research, Research Team Leader of Br…
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ICARDA’s New PhysioTron Facility Ready to unblock global phenotyping efforts
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)07.06.21ICARDA is thrilled to present its new PhysioTron machine developed in collaboration with partner nat…
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Old knowledge, new techniques – working together to rehabilitate degraded farmland
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)03.06.21-
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For World Environment Day, Mira Haddad, ICARDA’s Associate Researcher in Spatio-temporal Assessme…
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It’s not just about Wheat – How Diversified Cropping Systems help family farmers – and the planet.
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)28.05.21To support dryland farmers’ livelihoods, income, and nutritional security as well as biological di…
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Improving Ethiopian Malt Barley in Ethiopia for Better Livelihoods and Economy
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)26.05.21-
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A new malt barley handbook published by ICARDA aims at solving challenges surrounding malt barley…
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New research published studying plants' diversity in arid and desert rangelands in Tunisia
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)25.05.21-
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Newly publish research explains how after an exceptional wet season in Tunisia in 2017/18, ICARDA…
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AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Ethiopian and Uzbek Women
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)20.05.21-
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Beekeeping has long been a traditional pursuit in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, where smallholders…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)21.04.21-
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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Using Wild Relatives to Toughen up Staple Crops
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)18.04.21-
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Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the ancient ancestors of our domesticated crops. Because they have…
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How gender affects patterns of asset ownership and control in Egypt
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)28.03.21-
Gender equality
A recent study conducted by ICARDA’s Gender Scientist Dr. Dina Najjar, published in Feminist Econo…
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ICARDA's Date Palm project wins Khalifa Award 2021
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)16.03.21-
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ICARDA, on behalf of our exceptional scientists and partners, is thrilled to have won the…
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Morocco’s Wheat Sector: Higher Productivity is Within Reach
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)18.02.21-
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A recent study by ICARDA scientists analyzed Morocco’s wheat sector, a strategic crop that is…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)09.02.21-
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)26.01.21-
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ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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Encouraging entrepreneurship with mobile grinders and seed cleaning machines
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)29.12.20-
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ICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia are promoting entrepreneurship and rural businesses thro…
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Market Sheds in Ethiopian Livestock Markets boost Farmers’ Participation and Income
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)22.12.20-
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A new study conducted in the central Ethiopian highlands reveals that introducing animal sheds in…
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