The SWC@Scale project is funded by GIZ as part of the PROSOL global program, and carried out alongside partners such as Tunisia’s national agriculture research institutions, Direction générale de l’aménagement et de la conservation des terres agricoles (DGACTA), and Tunisian farmers associations. The newly launched SWC@Scale project researches and designs a sociotechnical package of affordable and scalable Soil and Water Conservation Technologies (SWCT) to improve soil
ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for funding this project, and to TomorrowNow.org, Tomorrow.io, Digital Green, Kenarava Group Ltd, and The Bug Picture for their partnership. By Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director of TomorrowNow, a visionary non-profit transforming African weather systems so that EVERYONE can survive and thrive in our changing climate.
ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Forest Service, and the governments of India, Morocco, and Australia for funding this research. ICARDA would also like to recognize its partners the Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), L’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Maroc, and the National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) Jordan. By
Today during MENA Climate Week held in Dubai, ICARDA carried out an engaging and thought-provoking online ‘fireside chat’, hosted by ICARDA’s Climate Change Advisor Ms. Roula Majdalani alongside three co-speakers from the donor, development, and private sector. ICARDA invited FAO Regional Programme Leader Mr. Jean-Marc Faures together with Ms. Laila Kenawy, National Programme Officer at the Embassy of Switzerland
As the supply of grains rapidly drops across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East due to the crisis in Eastern Europe, CGIAR and key partners like ARC-Egypt are urgently addressing growing climatic challenges, pests, and diseases that hinder domestic production, as well as offering alternatives to imported staples. Beni Suef, Egypt, March 30. At the recent ARC Sids Crop
This research was funded by the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Policies Institutions and Markets (PIM), CRP on Livestock, and the CGIAR Gender Platform, which are supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund, and the IFAD-funded ICARDA project “Use of conservation agriculture in crop-livestock systems (CLCA) in the drylands for enhanced water use efficiency, soil fertility, and productivity
In an effort to further safeguard critically important biodiversity to strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farmers, ICARDA contributed a further 6,336 seed samples to Norway’s Svalbard seed Vault in February 2022. A total of 100,931 accessions in the form of seeds from ICARDA are now stored in the vault – almost 10 percent of all the vault’s stored accessions.
After its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Uzbekistan underwent transformative socio-economic changes, which led men to seek work opportunities abroad. Meanwhile, the State continued to turn to agriculture, focusing on wheat and cotton, to provide a means to employ the population but with far less funding. The study found that male outmigration ‘feminized’ agricultural labor and management, increasing