Nabil Trabulsi (left) from ICARDA and a participant from IRRI exhibiting posters at the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival in Florida, highlighting the importance of land and water conservation for agriculture in the dry areas.
and the remainder took part in informal exchanges with Nabil and the other international communicators. Among the visitors were several official groups from the World Bank, and the CGIAR. ICARDA has again agreed to send a communicator to EPCOT in 2000. Ali Shehadeh, from the Genetic Resources Unit, has accepted the challenge of meeting thousands of visitors to the Flower and Garden Festival which will be held in Florida in April.
