ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR’s Livestock, Climate, and System Resilience Initiative (LCSR) for funding this research. ICARDA would also like to recognize its valuable partners, the Office de l’Elevage et des Pâturages (OEP) in Tunisia and the Direction Generale des Forets de Tunisie (DGF). “Restoring rangelands in Tunisia involves much more than just planting shrubs and trees. It is
A key focus in ICARDA’s work in Syria is on building up the country’s research capacity as a prerequisite for implementing a sound and effective research program for increasing the productivity of dry-farming crops. As part of the research activities through “Data Collection Survey on Efficient Agriculture Water Management,” conducted in the Orontes river basin in Hama-Syria, ICARDA held a
ICARDA’s Soil, Water and Agronomy (SWA) Team, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will hold a dryland agriculture session in the 2nd Global Framework on Water Scarcity and Agriculture (WASAG) Forum hosted by FAO. WASAG plays a significant role in developing collaborative actions as solutions to the increasing challenges posed by climate change and the resulting water
By Mina Devkota Wasti – ICARDA Agronomist, and Rachid Moussadek, ICARDA Systems Cropping Agronomist In the Central and West Asia, and North Africa Region (CWANA) ICARDA scientists and partners are leading efforts to provide solutions to farmers that allow them to continue food production while protecting their soil. On World Soil Day 2022, the United Nations reminds us that 95%
Earlier this year, Lebanese endurance athlete Michael Haddad embarked on a series of ‘Walks for Life’ in North Africa and Norway to raise global visibility of the impacts of climate change on rural farmers in the region and beyond. Michael carried symbolic ‘packets of hope’ that contained climate-vulnerable but vital seeds of wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, and forage crops (as
Within FAO’s NENA Water Scarcity Initiative (WSI), ICARDA, in collaboration with FAO and specialized institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia, has established and operated an ET measurement network since 2020. The NENA ET-Network aims to build a common regional understanding of the ET field measurements. A regional hybrid symposium will be organized in Rabat, Morocco, from
ICARDA and the CGIAR team attended COP27, hosted by The Egyptian Presidency in Sharm el-Sheikh, between 6-18 November 2022. This is the first COP that CGIAR centers have joined as one to present a unified front under the OneCGIAR ethos. Read our daily Livestream of our activities as they happen (Post-conference report coming soon) Of significance this year at COP27 was
Convened by the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) and CGIAR, under the patronage of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt, this high-level session will reflect on leveraging science and innovation to guide concurrent efforts of achieving food security while maintaining and restoring the environment with emphasis on adaptation and mitigation in agriculture in African and