Majd Jamal
Head of Government Liaison
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Dr. Majd Jamal joined ICARDA in 2009, and since 2018 has served as the head of government liaison. Jamal also has broad expertise in integrated pest management. He is a member and former president of the Advisory Council of the Arab Society for Plant Protection, and a former director general of the General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Syria.

Dr. Jamal spent most of his career as a faculty member and administrator at the Department of Plant Protection within the College of Agriculture at Damascus University in Syria. He supervised and mentored graduate students seeking their masters and doctoral degrees for 36 years. Dr. Jamal holds a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Georgia.

Majd Jamal's Publications

Food security in changing Arab environment
Book Chapter
November 02, 2017

Food security in changing Arab environment

The Arab region has the largest food deficit in the world, due to the strained natural resource base and vulnerabilities to climate change implications, which put tremendous pressure on achieving food security. During the last ten years a number of...

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Role of Sustainable Wheat Production to Ensure Food Security in the CWANA region
Effect of some insecticides on parasitoid, aphelinus mali hald (hymenoptera: aphelinidae) of the woolly apple aphid eriosoma Lanigerum Hausmann