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Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away from War

Edit Topix 05 Oct 2016
Lebanon's Bekaa valley offers a wealth of ecosystems - and now hosts a growing ICARDA seed bank. Credit. KATE GERAGHTY, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, Getty Images A major seed bank in Aleppo, Syria, holds genes that might help researchers breed crops to survive climate change ... ....

CGIAR system retools to fight hunger and climate change (CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
(Source ... A recent study found that CGIAR-derived wheat varieties - nearly all traceable to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and its sister-center, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) - cover more than 100 million of the 220 million hectares planted to the crop worldwide, bringing as much as $3.1 billion each year in economic benefits ... ABOUT CGIAR ... www.cgiar.org ... or ... (noodl....

Winds of change blow through Iran farming

Edit Press TV 04 Sep 2016
Iran is expanding dryland farming as a lingering drought is forcing the country to use its resources more prudently and cast off deep-seated wasteful ways.  ... However, the situation is far from being a funny story ... On Saturday, Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture signed an agreement with the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to expand dryland farming in the country ... ....

Indian woman abducted in Kabul has 15 years experience in social sector

Edit Indian Express 10 Jun 2016
(Source. Facebook) ... Government sources have indicated that the Indian embassy is working to ensure her release ... Also read. Afghanistan ... Afghanistan ... She provided advice and developed assessment tools on rural development and gender strategies to the Ministry of Rural Development in India and international organizations such as WorldFish, Malaysia, IFAD and International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Afghanistan ... ....

Frozen treasure (KfW Entwicklungsbank)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. KfW Entwicklungsbank). The deep cold of Spitzbergen holds a treasure that could one day contribute to the survival of mankind ... This is not only because a growing number of wild plants dying out. Cultivated plants and agricultural crops are affected too ... The 'International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas' (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria, recently availed of the possibility of requesting the return of lost seeds ... (noodl....

Student wins international competition with dissertation project - 20 May 2016 (Harper Adams University College)

Edit Public Technologies 20 May 2016
(Source. Harper Adams University College). 20 May 2016. Charlotte speaking at Food Matters Live. To be awarded first place in the virtual stream of the LovePulses competition is a dream come true. The judges' belief in this product is a life changing honour which will never be surpassed.' ... There I will receive my award which will be presented by Dr Solh, Director General of ICARDA and Head of the Jury Panel for the Virtual Competition....

Egypt looks to avert water crisis driven by demand, waste

Edit Denver Post 26 Apr 2016
... is running out.In this Monday, April 11, 2016 photo, Egyptian farmers use a plow developed by Atef Swelam, not pictured, the scientist who developed the plow on behalf of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), on a land in Kafr Hamouda village, in Zagazig, 63 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Cairo, Egypt....

Egypt ploughs away at water shortages in bid to avert a crisis

Edit The National 26 Apr 2016
KAFR HAMOUDA, EGYPT // "For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way — flooding fields in Egypt's Nile delta and planting seeds by hand ... "My own father opposed switching from our old ways, but when he saw the savings he was convinced," said Atef Swelam, the scientist who developed the plough on behalf of the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)....

Pulses are praised for health, ecological and economic benefits (FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
Feeding iron-rich lentils to Sri Lankan children for 60 days led to a drastic 90 percent increase in their blood profiles, showing remarkable efficacy for anaemia and other malnutrition issues in developing countries, according to the keynote speech from Mahmoud Solh, Director General of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)....

FAO and partners ramp up efforts to track and prevent spread of damaging wheat rusts (FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
As part of this effort, FAO is expanding its partnership with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the University of Aarhus' Global Rust Reference Centre to provide training on surveillance, resistance and management ... FAO, ICARDA and Turkey's General Directorate of Agricultural Research (GDAR), are ......

Global Wheat Breeding Provides Billions In Benefits - Study Shows

Edit Modern Ghana 06 Apr 2016
Fully 63 percent of the varieties featured genetic contributions from the breeding research of CIMMYT or of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), both members of CGIAR, a publicly-funded agricultural-research-for-development consortium ... CIMMYT and ICARDA depend on donor assistance and national partnerships to ......

'Faraway' wars, droughts and conflicts hit closer to home than you think (like in your larder)

Edit Huffington Post 22 Mar 2016
For example, the team at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) successfully sped up its work to duplicate its seed collection housed in Syria when civil war escalated. When ICARDA was forced to leave the country, 100 per cent of the seeds were safely preserved outside of Syria, providing an effective insurance policy for plant breeding work that will bolster future food supplies ... ....

Ethiopians need our help to survive drought

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Mar 2016
A woman in her early 50s scoops water from a hand-dug well ... It has hardly rained in this district for more than two years ... Advertisement ... In an ice mountain in Svalbard near the North Pole, thousands of varieties of wheat, oats, barley and rice are carefully stored as insurance against calamity – be it a super rust, deluge or a very uncivil "civil war" destroying much of the ICARDA​ seed bank at Aleppo in Syria ...  . ....
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