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ICARDA scientists recently met with The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) team of experts to discuss the potential of collaboration in research on pastoral systems and adaptation to address climate change impacts on rural farmers. The OSS initiates and facilitates partnerships on common challenges related to managing shared water resources and implementing international agreements on desertification, biodiversity, and climate change

A CGIAR delegation led by Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director CWANA, recently concluded a series of high-level consultations with National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES) representatives to harness guidance on priorities for the partner-led ICARDA breeding research agenda, including variety promotion under the Fragility to Resilience CWANA and Seed equal initiatives until 2030.   Through

The F2R-CWANA partner consultation meeting in Cairo in December 2022 was an opportunity for partners to update each other on progress, share knowledge, identify research gaps, prioritize the scaling-ready technology, and explore opportunities we have seen along the path to resilience. When researching and developing innovations at ICARDA, our partners lead right from the start and throughout, helping us

This work is part of the Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program supported by the American people delivered through the USAID Feed the Future initiative In Ethiopia, bread wheat is the third most important cereal crop after maize and teff for domestic food products (64%), and farmer incomes (24%). Wheat straw is also an

On the 8th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the United Nations (UN) aims to highlight the immense impact women in science deliver in transforming our world through contributing their knowledge and expertise towards the UN 2030 agenda and its 17 sustainable development goals. ICARDA’s Climate Change Advisor, Dr. Roula Majdalani, discusses her professional journey

How AgriSat’s groundbreaking remote sensing tools can contribute to more productive and cost-efficient wheat farming in Egypt    Cereals and root crops are vital staple food and animal feed crops throughout Mediterranean countries, including Egypt, and typically occupy almost one-third of their farmland. Given their importance and the threat posed by climate change and global shocks, targeted innovation in production

In the face of declining biodiversity, it is necessary to widen the genetic base  of food crops. Wild relatives can play a key role in introgressing novel genetic variation in the cultivated  gene pool of major pulses — to go beyond the repeated use of a narrow range of parents and their derivatives in crop improvement programs. A new

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal, ICARDA’s Head of the Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP) and Regional Coordinator of the ICARDA South Asia and China Regional Program, has been presented with the Excellence Award in the field of Pulses Improvement by the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD) and ICAR- Indian Institution of