ICARDA faces a significant challenge in achieving sustainable agricultural production amid highly variable climatic conditions. The past two seasons vividly illustrated this variability. The 1987/88 season saw abundant rainfall, resulting in bumper...
This Annual Report of ICARDA for 2000 is the first to reflect the new reporting structure based on the five CGIAR themes: Germplasm Enhancement, Production Systems Management, Natural Resource Management, Socioeconomics and Policy, and Institutional...
This issue of Caravan chronicles ICARDA’s efforts in developing a research strategy and a need-based research program for the CAC region. In doing so, ICARDA played a major role in bringing together all partners, most importantly donors. The article...
Germany possesses one of the world’s leading industrialized economies and has for many years been actively funding overseas development projects through the annual allocation of many millions of Deutschmarks.
Like all partnerships, there have been...
The objective of this paper is to determine spectral bands that are best suited for characterizing agricultural crop biophysical variables. The data for this study comes from ground-level hyperspectral reflectance measurements of cotton, potato...
Agricultural systems in dry areas are dynamic and face increasing demands due to the globalization of economies and urban market development. In 1999, the Fourth External Program and Management Review (EPMR) panel assessed ICARDA's effectiveness in...
