ICARDA CARAVAN 10

Investment Opportunities for Donors

ICARDA has developed one-page concept notes on the projects listed below. Each concept note briefly describes the problem, objectives, activities, beneficiaries and expected impact of the work. It also provides a tentative estimate of the funding required and the proposed life of the project. An ICARDA code number follows the title of each project in the list. The Director General of ICARDA will be pleased to provide a fuller version of any of these projects that donors may identify to support.

Natural Resources Management and Conservation
Optimizing soil-water use in the dry areas, ICARDA/16
Sustainable management of shallow groundwater aquifers, ICARDA/25
Planning water-harvesting systems in the drier environments, ICARDA/30
Methods, systems and guidelines for controlling wind erosion, ICARDA/46
Methodology for erosion hazard assessment in rainfed dryland, ICARDA/47
Mapping susceptibility to soil salinization in the dry areas, ICARDA/60
Resource mapping and remote sensing techniques in the dry areas, ICARDA/61
Modeling the recovery of marginal drylands in Mauritania, ICARDA/63

Biodiversity Conservation
Mapping the adaptation of landraces to cope with calamities, ICARDA/06
Increasing biodiversity through decentralized-participatory plant improvement,  ICARDA/21
Characterization of barley and wheat ex situ collection from center of origin and
diversity, ICARDA/52
Database of genetic resources of Central Asia, ICARDA/56

Sustainable Production Systems Development
Anticipatory research for sustainable productivity, ICARDA/01
Using forage legumes for productivity and sustainability, ICARDA/08
Increasing production of oilseed crops in the WANA region, ICARDA/13
Optimizing supplemental irrigation in the rainfed areas of WANA, ICARDA/31
On-farm water husbandry in WANA, ICARDA/32
Farmer participation in land-quality evaluation, ICARDA/35
Community participation to develop mountain-terrace agriculture, ICARDA/38
Safety nets for farmers and herders in marginal areas, ICARDA/45
Optimal rates of fertilization in the farming system in WANA, ICARDA/66
Management and conservation of Andean grazing swamps and camelids, ICARDA/68
Integrating market-oriented production strategies to enhance small-ruminant
productivity,  ICARDA/69
Market-oriented management and breeding strategies for small ruminant production in
Central Asia, ICARDA/70
Improving production of small ruminant cheese and milk derivatives to enhance
productivity, ICARDA/71
Improvement of crop production in the oasis system, ICARDA/72

Crop Improvement and Biotechnology
Development of biosafety regulations for countries in West Asia and North Africa,
ICARDA/02
Interspecific hybridization in chickpea to introgress biotic and abiotic stress resistance,
ICARDA/04
Improving drought resistance with molecular techniques, ICARDA/05
Genetically-engineered stress resistance in crops in WANA, ICARDA/09
Grasspea and lathyrism: safer food for subsistence farmers, ICARDA/10
Pathogenic variability in Ascochyta rabiei of chickpea, ICARDA/12
Breeding for resistance to drought to combat desertification, ICARDA/22
Biotechnology as a tool for detoxification and enhancement of nutritive value of grasspea,
ICARDA/23
Development of low-toxin/toxin-free grasspea cultivars for Bangladesh and Nepal,
ICARDA/24
Stability through biotechnology: changing floral biology of barley to exploit heterosis
under drought, ICARDA/27
Alleviation of malnutrition and poverty by improving quantity and quality of food barley,
ICARDA/28
Supporting farmers' breeding: improvement of barley landraces by farmers in the Andes,
ICARDA/29
Improvement of disease resistance in lentil in Nepal, ICARDA/33
Exploiting BYDV resistance in cereals, ICARDA/36
Experimental mutagenesis in barley breeding, ICARDA/40
Winter barley for malting and brewing industry, ICARDA/41
Barley germplasm enhancement for cold tolerance, ICARDA/43
Broadening wheat genetic base using wild diploid relatives, ICARDA/51
Exploitation of genotype ´ environment interaction studies in crop germplasm in WANA,
ICARDA/65
Adaptation and enhancement of barley germplasm in Central Asia and the Caucasus,
ICARDA/73

Integrated Pest Management
Diagnostic reagents for cereal and legume viruses detection, ICARDA/03
Exploiting legume virus diseases resistance, ICARDA/07
Integrated management of Ascochyta blight of chickpea, ICARDA/11
Integrated pest management of Sunn pest in West Asia, ICARDA/17
Use of botanical insecticides for the control of food-legume insect pests in WANA,
ICARDA/20
Integrated management of cereal and food-legume insect pests in West Asia and
North Africa, ICARDA/48
Integrated management of Hessian fly through host-plant resistance and biological
control in North Africa, ICARDA/49
Integrated disease management in cereal and legume cropping systems of the
West Asia and North Africa region, ICARDA/75

Seed Production Technology
Seed security: helping farmers to cope with disasters, ICARDA/15
Boosting seed use through small-holder enterprises, ICARDA/26
Forage and pasture seed: on-farm promotion of an informal seed sector, ICARDA/37
Facilitating the development and liberalization of national seed programs through
a regional seed network, ICARDA/55
Improving the seed technology capabilities in the region through a new training initiative,
ICARDA/57
Promotion and support to informal seed production systems in West Asia and North
Africa, ICARDA/58
Socioeconomics and Policy
Policy, institutional and technology options in the drylands of Central Asia, West Asia
and North Africa (CWANA), ICARDA/34
Property rights institutions, collective action and management of common resources,
ICARDA/39
Micro-credit for sustainable resource management in dry lands, ICARDA/53
The policy economics of biodiversity use and conservation, ICARDA/54
Coping with a new national and international environment: the fate of dryland agriculture
in CWANA, ICARDA/59

Information Technology
RAIN--Rainfed Agriculture Information Network, ICARDA/14
Use of IT for training agricultural researchers and extensionists, and for information
dissemination, ICARDA/18
Soil resource information system for Syria, ICARDA/19
Preservation and dissemination of agricultural literature through a regional cooperative
network in West Asia and North Africa, ICARDA/42
Improving variety description capabilities using an expert system, ICARDA/44
Enhancing the quality of data and scientific information in agricultural research in the
WANA countries, ICARDA/50
"What is there and where is it?" - Spatial data in Central Asia, ICARDA/62
Barley expert system, ICARDA/64
Development of an interactive CD-ROM for practical training in seed testing, ICARDA/67
Strengthening access to, and dissemination of, information in developing countries, ICARDA/74