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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. 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
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
09.07.25-
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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
29.05.25Photo 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
25.05.21-
Biodiversity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
22.12.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new study conducted in the central Ethiopian highlands reveals that introducing animal sheds in…
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