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For the last decade, ICARDA, under CGIAR, has collaborated with the Kingdom of Morocco on a groundbreaking Rainfed Research Platform to promote sustainable and resilient livelihoods for rural communities while conserving precious natural resources.   Morocco’s agricultural sector, which covers nine million hectares of agricultural arable land, faces severe climate threats such as last year’s ‘drought of the century’ that risk

Hybrid – Virtually via Zoom, and in-person at select CGIAR Centers- Register Now! In 2022, the United Nations designated 12th May as the International Day of Plant Health to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect biodiversity and the environment, and boost economic development.   Healthy crops, healthy planet! But climate change

The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate AIM for Climate / AIM4C), a joint initiative between the USA and UAE, has announced CGIAR-ICARDA’s groundbreaking Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Program (IDFIP) as an Innovation Sprint. The IDFIP aims to transform desert agriculture across the global drylands into highly productive food systems. With the support of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,

Global crop production faces significant obstacles such as abiotic stresses like heat, pests, and water scarcity due to climate change that can combine to significant yield reductions. Rapid population growth also increases demand beyond supply and further stresses production methods. However, thanks to new image-based phenotyping methods that can determine a plant’s genetic traits within specific environments, and sophisticated data

This week, our Morocco science team will demonstrate our groundbreaking climate-smart agri-technology at the Moroccan International Agricultural Exhibition (SIAM) – a world-leading expo showcasing Morocco’s progress in innovative, climate-smart agriculture to a diverse national and international audience. The 15th edition of SIAM, with the theme “Generation Green: for sustainable food sovereignty,” will take place from 2 to 7 May

5th of March 2023- Wad Madani, Gezira Station, Sudan CGIAR and Sudan’s Agricultural Research Coorportation (ARC) conducted a capacity development session on good agronomic practices and participatory research for sustainable intensification as part of CGIAR’s Fragility to Resilience (F2R)-CWANA Initiative. Thirty-two trainees from ARC, the University of Gezira, and FAO attended the session representing different disciplines vital to building

The UN 2023 Water Conference was convened by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan in New York from 22 to 24th March 2023 to urgently scale up action to address the water crisis and ensure a water-secure future. ICARDA’s Dr. Vinay Nangia was invited as part of the CGIAR delegation to present

On World Water Day 2023, Vinay Nangia, Team Leader of ICARDA’s Soil, Water, and Agronomy Research Unit, explains how ICARDA’s agri-water innovations and approaches help farmers to “Be the Change” for better water use in dryland agriculture.  Did you know that it takes one liter of water to produce one calorie of food or that a healthy human body needs