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Showcasing better crops for Egypt

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Egypt
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ICARDA
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ICARDA and Egypt partners the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) invited leading scientists, agronomists, and farmers to a field day at the ICARDA/ARC Sids Crop Research station, to showcase...

Reviving the pulse in food security

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World
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ICARDA
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, raises awareness about the nutritional benefits of a global wonder food: pulses. CGIAR, the world's...

ICARDA and Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Syria
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ICARDA
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ICARDA has sent between 2008 and 2014 a total of 116,476 accessions (80% of the in-trust collection held in Syria) for long-term conservation at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV). ICARDA in 2015...

Grasspea and Finger Millet pre-breeding get a boost

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World
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ICARDA
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Plant breeders need genetic diversity in order to improve the yield and nutritional quality of crops and adapt them to changing climatic conditions. But that diversity is limited in cultivated...

After 30 years of conflict, Somalia is coming back

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Somalia
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ICARDA
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Zewdie Bishaw 20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres...

Dryarc Initiative Co-Design Workshop

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World
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ICARDA
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Rabat, Morocco, 8-11 September 2019 – Eight CGIAR* centers participated in a co-design workshop to consolidate the key objectives of the DryArc Initiative and define its outputs and outcomes while...

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