Established in 1977, the
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is
governed by an independent Board of Trustees. Based at Aleppo, Syria, it is
one of 16 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR).
ICARDA serves the entire developing world for
the improvement of lentil, barley and faba bean; all dry-area developing countries
for the improvement of on-farm water-use efficiency, rangeland, and small-ruminant
production; and the Central and West Asia and North Africa region for the
improvement of bread and durum wheats, chickpea, and farming systems. ICARDA’s
research provides global benefits of poverty alleviation through productivity
improvements integrated with sustainable natural-resource management practices.
ICARDA meets this challenge through research, training, and dissemination
of information in partnership with the national agricultural research and
development systems.
The results of research are transferred through
ICARDA’s cooperation with national and regional research institutions,
with universities and ministries of agriculture, and through the technical
assistance and training that the Center provides. A range of training programs
is offered, from residential courses for groups to advanced research opportunities
for individuals. These efforts are supported by seminars, publications, and
specialized information services.
The CGIAR is an international
group of representatives of donor agencies, eminent agricultural scientists,
and institutional administrators from developed and developing countries who
guide and support its work. Its mission is to promote sustainable agriculture
to alleviate poverty and hunger and achieve food security in developing countries.
Since its foundation in 1971, it has brought together many of the world’s
leading scientists and agricultural researchers in a unique South–North
partnership to reduce poverty and hunger.
The Future Harvest centers of the CGIAR conducts
strategic and applied research, with their products being international public
goods, and focus their research agenda on problem-solving through interdisciplinary
programs implemented in collaboration with a range of partners. These programs
concentrate on increasing productivity, protecting the environment, saving
biodiversity, improving policies, and strengthening national agricultural
research systems.
The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are cosponsors
of the CGIAR. The World Bank provides the CGIAR System with a Secretariat
in Washington, DC. A science Council, with its Secretariat at FAO in Rome,
assists the System in the development of its research program.
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