Regional and International Organizations

ACSAD (The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands)

• Joint workshops, conferences and training.
• Exchange of germplasm.
• Cooperation in formulation and implementation of Thematic Networks (TN1 and TN2) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD): Sub-Regional Action Program for Western Asia.
• Cooperation in providing technical backstopping and training requested by the National Components of the GEF/UNDP project on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority and Syria.
  

CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

• ICARDA is participating in the Systemwide Program on Soil Water and Nutrient Management and in the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development, both coordinated by CIAT.
• CIAT and ICARDA are members of the Ecoregional Alliance.
• ICARDA is participating in the Challenge Program on Biofortified Crops for Improved Human Nutrition, led by CIAT and IFPRI.

CIHEAM (International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies)

• Joint training courses and information exchange
• Study of the tolerance of ICARDA mandate crops to salinity at CIHEAM Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari.
• ICARDA participates in the FAO-CIHEAM subprogram for nutrition and feeding strategies and the subprogram for breeding strategies for sheep and goats.
• Collaboration with CIHEAM Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza in the evaluation of Mediterranean rainfed agriculture technologies.
• ICARDA participates in the Collaborative Molecular Biotechnology Integrating Network (COMBINE) coordinated by CIHEAM Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.
• ICARDA participates in the FAO/CIHEAM Cooperative Research Network on Sheep and Goats, Genetic Resources Sub-Network.
• ICARDA is participating in a project on mapping adaptation of barley to drought environments, coordinated by CIHEAM.
• CIHEAM, ICARDA and FAO-RNE are co-conveners of a Network on Drought Management for the Near East, Mediterranean and Central Asia (NEMEDCA Drought Network).

CIMMYT (International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat)

• CIMMYT/ICARDA Joint Dryland Wheat Program. Two CIMMYT wheat breeders were seconded to ICARDA in 2002.
• An ICARDA barley breeder is seconded to CIMMYT.
• CIMMYT's outreach program in Turkey and ICARDA's Highland Regional Program share facilities in Ankara, Turkey and collaborate with Turkey in a joint Winter and Facultative Wheat Improvement Program.
• ICARDA and CIMMYT jointly coordinate a durum wheat research network encompassing WANA and southern Europe.
• CIMMYT participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• CIMMYT participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.

CIP (International Potato Center)

• CIP participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• CIP participates in the Future Harvest Consortium for Rebuilding Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
  

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

• ICARDA and FAO are co-sponsors of AARINENA.
• In 2002 ICARDA and FAO concluded a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in Afghanistan within the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), which is coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA participates in FAO's AGLINET cooperative library network, AGRIS and CARIS.
• ICARDA cooperates with FAO in the production of the Arabic version of the agricultural multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC.
• ICARDA participates in FAO's Global Animal Genetic Resources program.
• Joint planning in areas of feeding resources and strategies with FAO's Animal Production and Health Division.
• ICARDA participates in the FAO/CIHEAM Cooperative Research Network on Sheep and Goats, Genetic Resources Sub-Network.
• ICARDA cooperates with the FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources.
• ICARDA participates in the Inter-agency Task Forces convened by the FAO-RNE (FAO Regional Office for the Near East).
• FAO-RNE, ICARDA and CIHEAM are co-conveners of a Network on Drought Management for the Near East, Mediterranean and Central Asia (NEMEDCA Drought Network).
• FAO-RNE and ICARDA co-sponsored an Expert Consultation Meeting on Rehabilitation of Food Legume Crops in North Africa in December 2002.
• Joint training courses, workshops, publications and exchange of information.

FAO/IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Joint Division

• Management of nutrients and water in rainfed arid and semi-arid areas for increasing crop production.
• Research in feeding systems for small ruminants in the dry areas.
  

ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)

• ICARDA and ICRISAT cooperate in a joint kabuli chickpea improvement program.
• ICRISAT participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICRISAT participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA and ICRISAT are co-conveners of the sub-program on Optimizing Soil Water Use within the Systemwide Program on Soil Water and Nutrient Management.
• ICARDA is collaborating with ICRISAT on insect pests of grain legumes within the Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management.
• ICARDA and ICRISAT are co-conveners of the Challenge Program on Desertification, Drought, Poverty, and Agriculture (DDPA).
• ICARDA and ICRISAT are members of the Ecoregional Alliance.
• ICARDA and ICRISAT collaborate in the Cereal and Legumes Asia Network (CLAN).

IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)

• ICARDA participates in the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi), coordinated by IFPRI.
• IFPRI participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• IFPRI participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• Collaboration in policy and property rights research in CWANA through a joint staff appointment.
• ICARDA is participating in the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Initiative, led by IFPRI and ISNAR.
• ICARDA is participating in the Challenge Program on Biofortified Crops for Improved Human Nutrition, led by IFPRI and CIAT

IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture)

• ICARDA is collaborating with IITA on parasitic weeds within the Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management.
• IITA and ICARDA are members of the Ecoregional Alliance.

ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute)

• ILRI participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• ILRI participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• ILRI is a partner in studies of breed characterization of small ruminants in the Caucasus and on-station characterization of small ruminants in WANA.
• ILRI and ICARDA cooperate in increasing feed resources in the Caucasus.
• ILRI and ICARDA cooperate in strengthening teaching and research on sheep and goat production in Tunisia.

IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute)

• ICARDA hosts and services the IPGRI Regional Office for Central and West Asia and North Africa (IPGRI-CWANA).
• ICARDA participates with other CG Centers in the Systemwide Genetic Resources Program, coordinated by IPGRI, in both plant and animal genetic resources.
• IPGRI participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• IPGRI participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA collaborates with IPGRI in two sub-regional networks on genetic resources (WANANET and CATN/PGR).
• ICARDA participates in developments of the SINGER project coordinated by IPGRI and contributes data to the core SINGER database.
• ICARDA is developing a global inventory of barley genetic resources within the framework of linking SINGER to crop networks.
• IPGRI-CWANA is a partner with ICARDA in providing technical backstopping and training requested by the National Components of the GEF/UNDP project on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority and Syria.
  

IRRI (International Rice Research Institute)

• IRRI participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• IRRI participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA is a member of the working group on improving agricultural water productivity, led by IRRI, within the Challenge Program on Water and Food.

ISNAR (International Service for National Agricultural Research)

• ICARDA and ISNAR are co-sponsors of AARINENA.
• ISNAR participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA is participating in the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Initiative led by ISNAR and IFPRI.

IWMI (International Water Management Institute)

• IWMI participates in the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, coordinated by ICARDA.
• IWMI participates in the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA), coordinated by ICARDA.
• ICARDA serves on the Steering Committee of the Systemwide Initiative on the Comprehensive Assessment of Water, coordinated by IWMI.
• Collaboration in research on supplemental irrigation, issues of salinity and sustainable use of shallow groundwater aquifers, and the use of marginal water in agriculture.
  

AUSTRALIA
Australian Winter Cereals Collection, Tamworth

• Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics.
• Bread wheat landrace eco-geographic diversity studies.
  

Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, Horsham

• Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics.

University of Adelaide, CRC for Molecular Plant Breeding, Waite Campus

• International collaboration in barley research. Joint training of a PhD student.
• Host resistance, epidemiology and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea and lentil diseases.

Centre for Management of Arid Environments, Kalgoorlie, WA

• International collaboration in grazing management.
  

Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University

• Development of ESTs using wild barley from ICARDA.
  

CLIMA (Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture)

• Development and conservation of plant genetic resources in the Central Asian Republics.
• Preservation of the pulse and cereal genetic resources of the Vavilov Institute.
• Improving crop establishment and yield of relay and post-rice-sown pulses (lentil and Lathyrus) in the cropping systems of the terai and mid-hills in Nepal.
• Development of interspecific hybrids between chickpea and its wild relatives.
• Host resistance, epidemiology and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea and lentil diseases.

Department of Agriculture, Western Australia

• Host resistance, epidemiology and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea and lentil diseases.

NSW Agriculture, Tamworth Centre for Crop Improvement

• Durum wheat improvement.
• Chickpea improvement.
• Identification of legume viruses and selection of legume germplasm for virus disease resistance.
• Host resistance, epidemiology and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea and lentil diseases.

Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney

• Near isogenic lines for the assessment of pathogenic variation in the wheat stripe (yellow) rust pathogen

Victorian Institute for Dryland Agriculture

• Improvement of lentil and grass pea in Bangladesh.
• Improvement of narbon vetch for low rainfall cropping zones in Australia.
• Improving crop establishment and yield of relay and post-rice-sown pulses (lentil and Lathyrus) in the cropping systems of the terai and mid-hills in Nepal.
• Coordinated improvement project on Australian lentils.
• Host resistance, epidemiology and integrated management of faba bean, chickpea and lentil diseases.
  

AUSTRIA
Federal Institute for Agrobiology, Linz

• Safety duplication of ICARDA's legume germplasm collection.

BELGIUM
University of Gent

• Assessment of Vicia sativa and Lathyrus sativus for neurotoxin content.
  

University of Leuven

• Participatory agroecological characterization.

CANADA
University of Guelph, School of Rural Development and Planning, Ontario

• Role of women in resource management and household livelihood strategies.

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

• Collaboration in tan spot disease

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

• Genetic improvement of resistance to Ascochyta blight and Anthracnose in Lentil.
• Evaluation of chickpea for Ascochyta blight resistance.
• Evaluation of chickpea germplasm and their wild relatives.
  

Simon Fraser University, British Colombia

• Collaboration in Sunn pest pheromones.

DENMARK
Risø National Laboratory, Plant Biology and Biogeochemistry Department

• Genetic mapping in barley.
• Barley pathology.
• Integrated cereal disease management in Eritrea.

Danish Institute of Agriculture Sciences (DIAS)

• Yellow rust of wheat.
• Integrated cereal disease management in Eritrea.
  

FINLAND
Agricultural Research Center of Finland (MTT)

• Nutritional aspects of grain legumes.

FRANCE
CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement)

• Bioeconomic and agro-pastoral community modeling studies in WANA.
• Socioeconomic studies of rangeland management in WANA.
• Global program for direct sowing, mulch-based systems and conservation tillage.

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

• Morphophysiological traits associated with constraints of Mediterranean dryland conditions in durum wheat.
• Water balance studies in cereal-legume rotations in semi-arid mediterranean zone.
• Collaboration on cereal cyst nematodes.
• Genotyping of crop wild relatives.
• Biological control and botanical pesticides against insect pests.
• Studies on salt tolerance in food legumes.
• Evaluating the performance of crop model STICS developed by INRA.

Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM)

• Cooperation in the establishment of a network on water information.

Université de Paris-Sud, Labo Morphogenese Vegetale Experimentale

• Production of doubled haploids in bread wheat and barley.

GERMANY
University of Bonn

• QTL analysis in barley.
• Integrated approaches to sustainable land management in dry areas.

University of Frankfurt am Main

• Development and use of DNA molecular markers for indirect selection in chickpea.

University of Hamburg

• Establishment of barley transformation system.
  

University of Hannover

• Development of transformation protocols for chickpea and lentil.

University of Hohenheim

• Increasing the heterozygosity level of barley to exploit heterosis under drought stress.

University of Karlsruhe

• Use of remote sensing and GIS for identification of water harvesting sites.

University of Kiel

• Assessment of information needs for development of water management models.
• Institutions of supplemental irrigation.

ITALY
Catania University

• Developing a decision support system for mitigation of drought impacts in Mediterranean regions.

Institute of Nematology, Bari

• Studies of parasitic nematodes in food legumes.

University of Tuscia, Viterbo.

• Diversity of storage proteins in durum wheat.
  

University of Tuscia, Viterbo; Germplasm Institute, Bari; ENEA (Italian Research Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), Rome

• Evaluation and documentation of durum wheat genetic resources.
  

JAPAN
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• JICA's volunteers program supports research on small ruminant health and nutrition.
• Joint training program in management of water resources and improvement of water use efficiency in dry areas.

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)

• Comparative genomics and cDNA microarray technology for the identification of drought and cold inducible genes in model plants.
  

Kyoto University

• Collaboration in molecular characterization of wheat wild relatives.
  

NETHERLANDS
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Faculteit der Aard en Levenswetenschappen)

• Collaboration on groundwater research in Syria.

Wageningen University

• Collaboration on land and water management research in Syria.

NORWAY
Noragric (Agricultural University of Norway)

• Collaboration on soil and water management research in Syria.
  

PORTUGAL

Estacao National de Melhoramento de Plantas, Elvas

• Developing lentil, faba bean, chickpea, and forage legumes adapted to Portugal's conditions.
• Evaluation of IZARIG irrigation management model for supplemental irrigation.

RUSSIA
All Russian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Moscow

• Establishment of barley transformation system.

The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR)

• Genetic resources exchange, joint collection missions and collaboration in genetic resources evaluation and documentation.
• Bread wheat eco-geographic diversity studies.
  

SPAIN
University of Barcelona

• Durum and bread wheat stress physiology
• Barley stress physiology.

University of Cordoba

• Durum grain quality.

SWITZERLAND
Institut Universitaire d'Études du Développement (IUED), Geneva

• Sustainable dryland resource management in the arid margins of Syria.

Station Fédérale de Recherches Agronomiques de Changins (RAC), Nyon

• Duplication of Lathyrus genetic resources and data.

Swiss College of Agriculture (SCA), Department for International Agriculture

• Training of SCA students within short research programs in animal production at ICARDA.

UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham University

• Collaboration in advising students on in situ conservation.

Bristol University

• Analysis of the climatology of rainfall obtained from satellite and surface data for the Mediterranean basin.

CABI Bioscience

• Entomopathogenic fungi for Sunn pest control.

Macaulay Land Use Research Institute

• Research planning on fat-tail sheep as a trait to be used in strategic feeding systems.
• Research on feeding systems for small ruminant production in the dry areas.
• Upgrading of skills in methodologies of feed evaluation in Central Asia.

Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

• Sunn pest pheromones.

University of Reading

• Gender analysis in the agricultural systems of WANA
• .Testing woolly-pod vetch in hillside project in Uganda.

Scottish Crop Research Institute

• Use of microsatellite markers to characterize barley genetic resources of WANA.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
University of California, Riverside

• Biodiversity of wheat wild relatives.

University of California, Davis

• GL-CRSP (Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program): rangeland production and utilization in Central Asia.
• Developing chickpea cultivars with resistance to Ascochyta blight.
• Study of genetic diversity in natural populations of Aegilops tauschii.

Colorado State University

• Testing for stripe rust in barley.

Cornell University

• Use of molecular markers for genome mapping and marker-assisted selection for stress resistance in durum wheat.
• Spatial variability in lentil trials.

DuPont Agric. Biotechnology

• Development of EST markers in wheat and lentils.

Fort Valley State University, Georgia

• Strengthening teaching and research on sheep and goat production in Tunisia.

University of Massachusetts

• Child nutrition in rural areas of Syria.

North Carolina State University, Department of Statistical Genetics

• QTL estimation for disease data.

Oklahoma State University

• Collaboration in feasibility study for sustainable renovation of qanats in Syria.

Oregon State University

• Molecular mapping of barley within the North America Barley Genome Mapping project.
• Identification of molecular markers associated with resistance to diseases of barley.

Purdue University

• GIS for watershed management in the arid regions of Tunisia.

Texas Tech University, Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory

• Adaptation to drought and temperature stress in barley using molecular markers.

TIGR (The Institute for Genomic Research)

• Development of functional genomics and single nucleotide polymorphism platforms for cereals and legumes.

University of Vermont

• Use of entomopathogenic fungi for the control of Sunn pest in West Asia.

University of Wisconsin

• Small ruminant production with emphasis in dairy sheep evaluation and crossbreeding.
• Sheep production in Central Asia through the GL-CRSP (Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program).

Washington State University

• The use of CropSyst simulation model in the WANA region for generalization of the site-specific research results for wider ecoregions.

Yale University, Center for Earth Observations

• Feasibility study of use of remote sensing and image analysis for land use mapping and evaluation.

USDA/ARS (US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)

• Biological diversity, cultural and economic value of medicinal, herbal and aromatic plants in southern Tunisia.

USDA/ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland

• Development of bread wheat cultivars facilitated by microsatellite DNA markers.

USDA/ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, Indiana

• Technical advice on soil conservation technologies and erosion research.

USDA/ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory, Logan, Utah

• Central Asian rangeland and sheep evaluation.

USDA/ARS Plant Stress and Water Conservation Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas

• Climatological analysis as a tool for agricultural decision-taking in dry areas.

USDA/ARS Stillwater, Oklahoma

• Russian wheat aphid resistance and biotypes

USDA/ARS Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research, Pullman, Washington

• Gene mapping of economic traits to allow marker assisted selection in chickpea.
• Exploitation of existing genetic resources of food legumes.
• Inheritance and mapping of winter-hardiness genes in lentil for use in marker-assisted selection.

USDA/ARS Western Regional Plant Introduction Station, Pullman, Washington

• Conservation of temperate food, pasture and forage legume biodiversity.
• Conservation and collection of plant genetic resources in Central Asia and the Caucasus.