ICARDA News

Parts of the Mediterranean basin are some of the regions predicted to be worst affected by climate change.

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April 30, 2015

A resilience agenda for the Mediterranean

Changes in climate patterns are already having their most acute effect on people living in the world’s dry areas – including the Near East and North Africa.

Greece encompasses the primary and secondary centers of diversity for several crops of global significance, including faba bean.

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April 30, 2015

Collecting mission targets Greece

ICARDA’s Genetic Resources Section (GRS), supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, has been organizing collecting missions to previously unexplored parts of Greece.

The capacity strengthening initiatives targeted date palm production – a strategic crop across the Arabian Peninsula.

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April 30, 2015

Date palm: a strategic crop for the Arabian Peninsula

In order to improve the region’s date palm production, ICARDA’s Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP) has initiated a series of capacity strengthening events.

H. E. Ato Tefera Derbw (Right), Ethiopia’s Minister of Agriculture, signing the MoU with ICARDA’s Director General, Dr. Mahmoud Solh.

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April 30, 2015

Consolidating ICARDA's partnership with Ethiopia

An agreement with Ethiopia confirms the establishment of a new research for development platform focused on mixed crop-livestock production systems.

A failure to sufficiently consider gender will only partially transform sub-Saharan Africa’s wheat sector.

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April 26, 2015

Addressing the gender deficit in wheat production

What are the constraints facing women farmers in the dry areas, and how can we overcome their limited access to technologies, inputs, and information?

The brainstorming session convened by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (pictured seated, first row, center-left) at ICARDA’s Amman offices initiated discussions on what a new vision for Jordan’s ‘badia’ would look like.

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April 22, 2015

A new vision for the 'Badia'

A region-wide vision for Jordan's 'Badia' will address production constraints on a large-scale, while exploiting opportunities for development and growth.

The agreement was signed by Dr. Mahmoud Solh, ICARDA’s Director General (left), and Mr. Abdessalem Ould Ahmed, FAO Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for NENA (right).

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April 08, 2015

Strengthening ICARDA’s partnership with FAO

A new partnership to deliver 'climate-smart' technologies to smallholder farmers in the Middle East and North Africa.

Signing the agreement.Pictured seated are Dr. Mahmoud Solh (Left) and Prof. Ibrahim Adam Eldukheri of ARC. Also pictured are H. E. Minister of Agriculture, Eng. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, and Sudanese Vice-President, H. E. Hassabo Mohamed Abderahman.

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April 08, 2015

Raising Sudan’s wheat production

Heat-tolerant wheat varieties are transforming wheat production in Sudan. Introduced alongside an integrated package of innovative technologies and practices, the varieties are generating stable yields of up to six tons per hectare. The result: higher farmer...