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Enhancing wheat production and food security in Sudan through scaling up improved technologies using innovation platforms
The innovation platforms (IP) concept was adopted in Sudan as an effective multi-stakeholders approach for sustainable agricultural R4D. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the IP approach in enhancing wheat ...
Wheat production and breeding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and opportunities in the face of climate change
Purpose – This paper aims to review the current status of wheat production, farming systems, production constraints and wheat demand-supply chain analysis; the role of international and national breeding programs and their ...
Wheat technologies introduced by SARD-SC produce five tons per hectare, to improve food security of Eritrea
A major contributing factor to increased productivity has been the development of new high yield varieties through the AfDB funded SARD-SC Wheat project of ICARDA working with the National Agricultural Research Institute ...
Domestic production: a solution to African import dependence
The impressive performance of improved varieties of high-yielding, heat-tolerant wheat developed in Sudan has
convinced Nigerian decision makers that a viable solution to their country’s growing dependence on wheat
imports ...
Heat-tolerant wheat transforms food production and policy for Sudan
An integrated wheat package introducing heat-tolerant wheat varieties that can withstand temperatures greater than 38°C is transforming farmer fields in Sudan and showing policy-makers a new road to food security.
Stakeholders at the international wheat conference in Abuja loud recent successes in the wheat sector, pledge more support
Stakeholders attending the International Conference on Wheat in Abuja, Nigeria lauded the recent successes in reducing wheat importation to Africa and have pledged more support. The stakeholders spoke during the conference ...
Role of Sustainable Wheat Production to Ensure Food Security in the CWANA region
Wheat is the world‟s most widely cultivated cereal. By 2050, global demand for wheat is projected to
increase by 60%. In the CWANA region which ICARDA is tasked to serve, wheat is the basic staple
and food security crop, ...