ICARDA-Sustainable Agriculture for the Dry Areas

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS

International Conference on:
Food Security and Climate Change

With experts in agreement that the world’s dry areas will be hardest hit by climate change, scientists from across the globe will meet in Amman, Jordan, on February 1-4 to draft a joint declaration calling for urgent action to buffer dryland agriculture.
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Generation Challenge Programme

Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM)

ICARDA

International School of Aleppo

ICARDA Intranet

Department for International Development		Khalifa International Date Palm Award
Global agricultural research-for-development against desertification		Knowledge Sharing Project
FAO-ICARDA International Technical Cooperation Network on Cactus index		International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development
Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB)	FIGS	Bread Wheat Landrace Database - Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy

Announcements

What's New at ICARDA

ICARDA in the News

-	Scientists Announce International Network for Food Security and Climate Change at Amman Conference
-	International Conference on: "FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN DRY AREAS", 1-4 February 2010. Amman, Jordan

-	46th ICARDA Board of Trustees meeting held in Lebanon
-	Prime Minister of Lebanon commends ICARDA
-	ICARDA Board reiterates commitment to CGIAR change program
-	Board welcomes new members
-	Baton changes hands
-	Science Week 2009
-	Australian partners help strengthen research capacity in Iraq
-	Sustainable development in Iraq
-	New initiatives for West Asia
-	ICARDA and Swedish partners expand collaboration
-	Workplans for new initiative in Egypt
-	Steppes to success
-	New Center of Excellence for Dryland Agriculture in China in collaboration with ICARDA and ICRISAT
-	Fighting desertification
-	Japanese funding for training programs
-	Rain from bacteria?
-	Lentils, hot off the press
-	Environment-friendly pest control
-	Three decades of work, available on-line



-	Scientists unite to combat water scarcity; solutions yield more crop per drop in drylands
-	IFAD/ICARDA Knowledge Exchange Workshop – Objectives
-	Transboundary Disease Threatens a Crop that Feeds 2 Billion People Worldwide, Top Wheat Experts Call for Scaling Up Efforts to Combat Ug99
-	Memorandum of Understanding with Egypt Agriculture Research Center
-	Prime Minister of Syria visits ICARDA
-	Water Benchmarks Project: final workshop
-	Water and Livelihoods Initiative – Irrigation Benchmark Workshop
-	Strategic partnerships for food security: initiatives from Arab development agencies
-	Global Rust Initiative: the war on Ug99 continues
-	Karkheh River Basin projects in Iran: final workshop
-	ICARDA hosts IWMI Board of Governors
-	Bangladesh seeks wider collaboration





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