Training support for Wheat Rust Diseases
Period of Implementations
Dec 23, 2015 - Nov 30, 2016
Total budget
79,140
Project Name
Training and Surveillance Support for Wheat Rust Diseases in Central Asia and Near East
About
The "Training support for Wheat Rust Diseases" project contributes to increased resilience of smallholder farmers' livelihoods in Central Asia and the Near East to rust disease threats. To this end, surveillance, diagnosis, and prevention activities will be enhanced by national authorities and key stakeholders to reduce the impact of crises, through the implementation of a training workshop, field surveys, and data collection and analysis.
Impact
Goals
The goal of the project are to strengthen the national capacities of target countries in rust surveillance, diagnosis, and management, while also promoting the production of updated information on occurrence of diseases and effectiveness of resistance genes. The project encourages the circulation of such information among national institutions and key stakeholders, which will also feed into the global rust monitoring system though incorporation of survey results.
Objectives
The objectives of the project are the following:
1) Set up/improve mechanisms to identify and monitor wheat rust threats and to deliver integrated and timely warnings;
2) Improve the capacities of countries, communities, and key stakeholders to implement good mitigation practices to reduce the impacts of threats and crises;
3) Improve the capacities of national authorities and stakeholders for emergency preparedness to reduce the impact of crises.
Impact pathways
Working together with national partners in the 10 target countries, ICARDA scientists will coordinate and support wheat-related field surveys and data collection, and conduct analysis on the rust samples for disease occurrence, virulence, and race identification. Through the organization of a training workshop targeting 13 officials from the Central Asia and Near East countries, disease management and surveillance techniques will be enhanced in order to strengthen contingency planning and early warning of the spread of diseases. The project outputs will then contribute to improved capacities of countries, communities, and stakeholders to implement good practices to reduce the impact of the crisis, thus promoting food safety and increased productivity of farmers who rely on wheat as a major source of staple food and income.
Locations
Azerbaijan
Egypt
Eritrea
Iran
Iraq
Morocco
Pakistan
Tajikistan
Türkiye
Uzbekistan
40.5, 47.5
27, 30
15, 39
32, 53
33, 44
32, -5
30, 70
39, 71
39, 35
41, 64
Project Management
Kumarse Nazari
Manager
Partners
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center - CIMMYT
Tajikistan Academy of Agricultural Sciences - TAAS
National Agricultural Research Institute Eritrea - NARI Eritrea
Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry - UZRIPI
Agrarian Scientific Centre - ASCA
National Institute of Agronomic Research Morocco - INRA Morocco
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Ministry of Food, Agriculture and LIvestock of Turkey), (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs -MARA) - TARIMORMAN (TARIM) (MARA)