At the EiA learning event, ICARDA’s Soil, Water, and Agronomy Research Team brought together partners and researchers to report, reflect, and synthesize on efforts to modernize agronomy research.
ICARDA MEL team was chosen as a finalist for the CGIAR Inclusive Team Award – CGIAR's first-ever Inclusive Workplace Awards, recognizing efforts to advance gender equity and support inclusivity in the workplace.
"Restoring rangelands in Tunisia involves much more than just planting shrubs and trees. It is about managing the frequency and duration of animal grazing on a day-to-day basis." - Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
ICARDA held a productive management training course on modern irrigation, and data collection on effective agricultural water management in October 2022 in the city of Aleppo.
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.
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.
ICARDA’s Soil, Water and Agronomy (SWA) Team in partnership with Food and Agriculture (FAO) will hold a dryland agriculture session in the FAO’s 2nd Global Framework on Water Scarcity and Agriculture (WASAG).
COP27 was marked by a significant change in discourse towards the key role that agri-food systems transformation can play in climate ada[atation and mitigation.
Within FAO’s NENA Water Scarcity Initiative (WSI), ICARDA, in collaboration with FAO in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia, has established and operated an ET measurement network since 2020.