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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Improved crop varieties can help mitigate rising grain prices
08.04.22As the supply of grains rapidly drops across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East due…
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A Green Light for Desert Farming Collaboration
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At a High Level KIADPAI/CGIAR side-event during the 7th International Date Palm Conference in Abu…
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Thought-provoking discussion at the ICARDA fireside chat for MENA Climate Week
30.03.22-
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Today during MENA Climate Week held in Dubai, ICARDA carried out an engaging and thought-provoking…
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Protecting Scarce Dryland Water
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ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…
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Farmers Can Get Ahead of Locust Swarms
09.03.22-
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ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for…
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Social Soil
02.12.21-
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The SWC@Scale project is funded by GIZ as part of the PROSOL global program, and carried out alo…
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ICT2Scale demonstrates the vital importance of ICT tools for dryland farmers
02.12.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To fill gaps in essential data informing decisions at the farm level, the ICT2Scale…
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ICARDA Signs MoU with the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
30.11.21-
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ICARDA is thrilled to announce that Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and CGIAR…
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Morocco to Convert 1M ha to Conservation Agriculture - how ICARDA/INRA Fit In
28.11.21-
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Morocco, the only country in the region to practice Conservation Agriculture (CA) at scale, will…
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ICARDA’s livestock-based innovation success story gets an award
24.11.21-
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ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of t…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
21.11.21-
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Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
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COP26’s Huge Strides towards Climate-Friendly Agriculture
21.11.21-
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COP26, the 26th yearly round of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate negotiati…
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Egypt Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly praises the efforts of the UAE and the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation
14.11.21The Secretary-General of The Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation (…
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Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge for Better Farming Today
11.11.21-
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The 'Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure' (IKRI), a brand-new online catalog that compiles …
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CGIAR - ICARDA AT COP26
03.11.21-
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This week ICARDA travels to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK.…
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ICARDA Scientists Study the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production and Its Consequences on Human Health
26.10.21-
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Around the world, especially in dry areas, agricultural practices are affected by climate change a…
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Country workshops to discuss the future of CGIAR research in CWANA
26.10.21-
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Building on the July CWANA consultations, CGIAR led by Mr. Aly Abousabaa - Regional Director…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on how Farming with Alternative Pollinators improves smallholder farmers' incomes significantly
19.10.21-
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An open-access paper in Nature reports on the significant advantages of using the low-cost Farming…
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