Despite prevailing social constraints, village-based seed enterprises are providing a route to empowerment.

Turning Point in Systems Research

In this special issue to mark the International Year of Mountains: Rebuilding Afghanistan's agriculture - Future Harvest Consortium meets critical need for seed; Reclaiming ancient techniques - Terrace rehabilitation in ...

Invitation to join the "From Farms to Markets: Innovative agri-based value chains: new streams of income for women and youth" session during the COP22 Marrakech Climate Change Conference.

The Palestinian Authority aims to create a vibrant agricultural innovation system (AIS) which will ensure resilience of the agricultural sector and will contribute to development of the Palestinian economy. The new system ...

During 2010-2011, the CGIAR re-organized most of its research around fifteen global research programs in addition to a separate initiative on gene banks. Each CGIAR Research Program (CRP) is managed by a Lead Centre, and ...

This brief highlights cooperation between the European Commission and ICARDA for programs over the past two decades to improve food security and the livelihoods of rural populations in the world’s dry areas.

A study based on regional and micro level household data was taken up to inquire in to the impacts of a national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) in India. Studies in four sample districts in predominantly rainfed ...

This issue of Caravan describes some of ICARDA's work on climate change. It contains overviews of the key issues, and articles describing research in specific areas. We examine, for example, how genetic resources – landrace ...