In the Global South, livestock has strong empowerment potential for millions of women by providing protein-rich food for home consumption and sale, strengthening their role as stakeholders. However, in many rural communities, gender norms shape how household members manage and share livestock and their benefits, often in ways that disadvantage women and girls. For example, women graze small livestock species,
Beirut, Lebanon – July 2022: The inception meeting of the CGIAR Initiative From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia, and North Africa (F2R-CWANA) – Lebanon and Syria will take place to showcase CGIAR’s significant advances in agricultural research-for-development (R4D) and plans for this region. F2R-CWANA is one of CGIAR’s new global portfolio of 33 initiatives developed by CGIAR and its partners
Egyptian partners and stakeholders will join CGIAR and ICARDA in Cairo, Egypt on the 28th of June 2022 to provide their input and to further refine CGIAR’s Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform-IDFIP’s technical mandate through reviewing a concept note developed by CGIAR’s agricultural experts. This serves as another step in creating a regional Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform and to
Cairo, June 27th, 2022: A day-long workshop will take place to introduce the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) 2030 Initiative to key stakeholders in Central, West Asia, and North Africa (CWANA). The workshop aims to discuss how the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) 2030 initiative can support governmental and private sector stakeholders, regional and international donors and other research institutions who are
Cairo, Egypt – June 2022: This week sees significant advances in agricultural research-for-development (R4D) in Egypt, with the upcoming Egypt and Sudan Inception Workshop of the CGIAR Initiative From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia, and North Africa (F2R-CWANA). F2R-CWANA is one of CGIAR’s new global portfolio of 33 initiatives developed by CGIAR and its partners to deliver
Tash Kent, Uzbekistan, June 2022: This week sees major advances for agricultural research-for-development (R4D) in Uzbekistan with the launch of the partner-led CGIAR From Fragility to Resilience (F2R) in Central and West Asia, and North Africa Initiative. The F2R-CWANA Initiative is one of CGIAR’s new global portfolio of 33 initiatives developed by CGIAR and its partners, to deliver more relevant,
Natural vegetation, pollinators, birds – a whole ecological system that was recently a barren wasteland has been brought back to life through ICARDA’s work in the Middle Badia of Jordan on adequate and sustainable land management approaches. The hilly terrain of the Badia of Jordan, which spans 80% of the country’s total surface area, was not always so barren and
Paralyzed Lebanese Athlete and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Michael Haddad completed a 5-kilometer Artic Walk yesterday, delivering a package of precious ICARDA seeds from the Middle East and North Africa to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. ——————————– CLICK BELOW TO READ FULL STORY