An international collaboration of world-leading scientists led by ICARDA Morocco has delivered six ground-breaking new durum wheat and barley varieties tolerant to increasingly severe droughts ravaging the region. As the climate crisis intensifies, so too do the frequency and strength of drought episodes, especially in dryland countries such as Morocco, which has experienced unprecedented droughts in the last decade. The
Cairo, Egypt – March 9, 2023 – H.E. Mr. OKA Hiroshi, Ambassador of Japan to Egypt, signed and exchanged notes with Mr. Nasredin Hag Elamin, Representative of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Egypt, regarding the provision of a grant of 520 million yen (approximately 3.8 million US dollars) to support the Government of Egypt to
This work was part of the CGIAR Gender Platform and the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa. A groundbreaking new research strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for adapting and building resilience to climate change. The newly published strategy results
ICARDA’s Soil, Water and Agronomy (SWA) Team in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a dryland agriculture session in the 2nd Global Framework on Water Scarcity and Agriculture (WASAG) Forum hosted by FAO. WASAG was established in 2016 under FAO’s auspices. Its main objective is to support countries and stakeholders in their commitments and plans related
It is with pride that we announce the induction of Dr. Aynalem Haile, ICARDA Principal Scientist and Small Ruminant Breeder, as a Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Haile has contributed to Ethiopia’s national and international research in animal genetic resources for over 25 years. Notably, he has led an innovative and successful approach to sheep and
The regional AgMIP-MENA Platform was launched by ICARDA and Mohammed IV Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco in cooperation with the global Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). The event brought together experts from around the world, especially the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, to advance the science and practice of agricultural modeling to enhance resilient crop production
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
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