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Maintaining production in water-scarce environments
Can conservation agriculture deliver for farmers across the Arab World?
Enhancing Food Security in Arab Countries
A research for development initiative working across ten countries to raise wheat production and reduce the Arab World’s growing dependence on costly wheat imports.
Micro-Finance in the Dry Areas: a Case Study in Syria
Lack of finance is often the key barrier to technology adoption by small-scale farmers. This is particularly true in dry areas, where many poor households, lacking income, assets or access to credit, are unable to invest ...
Strengthening informal seed networks
How can we strengthen seed systems to achieve food security and better protection from epidemics and disease?
Returns to Investment on Barley Improvement Research in Dry Areas
Barley, one of the earliest crops in human history, is grown in over 100 countries. In the West, it is used mainly for animal feed or as malt for producing beverages. In developing countries it is a staple food for millions ...
Ensuring our future with diverse food supply World heritage seed collection makes its way from Syria to Svalbard
Beirut and Bonn, April 2014. More than 80 percent of the globally unique collection of crop genetic resources residing with the Genebank of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) at ...
ICARDA-European Commission partnership (1990-2011)
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.