Awards
for Excellence in Science
Prof. Dr Adel El-Beltagy (right), ICARDA DG; Dr William Dar (left) ICRISAT DG; and Dr Jagdish Kumar, Principal Chickpea Breeder, ICRISAT, received the King Baudouin Award from the CGIAR Chair, Dr Ian Johnson (second from right).
King Baudouin Award
Work to develop high-yielding kabuli chickpea varieties that thrive in cool, wet winter conditions earned for ICARDA the 2002 King Baudouin Award from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), jointly with its sister center, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), which focuses its research on desi chickpea. The award was presented to the two centers by the CGIAR Chairman, Dr Ian Johnson, at the Annual General Meeting of the CGIAR in Manila, Philippines, in October 2002.
Other Honors and Awards
- ICARDA’s Director General,
Prof. Dr Adel El-Beltagy, was elected Academician (Foreign Member) of
the Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the field of crop science.
- Dr Rajendra S. Paroda, Regional Coordinator of ICARDA’s Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) and Head of the Program Facilitation Unit of the CGIAR Program for CAC, was elected Fellow of the Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Armenian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Academician of the Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and won the B.P. Pal Memorial Award for the Biennium 2001–2002 of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India. Dr Paroda was also honored by the ICRISAT Board of Trustees and Management. In December 2002, the Institute’s prestigious germplasm repository was named the Rajendra S. Paroda Genebank, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to genetic resources conservation.
H.E. Mr Tursunboi Rakhmatov (center), Minister of Agriculture, and Academician Bobo Sanginov, President of the Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences, decorate the ICARDA Director General with robe and hat to mark his induction as the first foreign member of the Academy.
- In June 2002, His Majesty
the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, conferred the royal medal “Chevalier
d’Honneur” on Dr Miloudi Nachit, CIMMYT/ ICARDA Durum Wheat
Breeder, for his research on durum wheat improvement in the Mediterranean
region.
- Dr Miloudi Nachit, Dr Mustapha
El-Bohssini, Entomologist, and Dr Ahmed Amri, Coordinator, Regional
Agrobiodiversity Project, shared with Drs N. Nserallah and S. Lhaloui
of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Morocco, the 2002
Prize for Research and Development in Morocco.
- Dr Mustapha El-Bohssini
shared with Mr K. Mardini, Agricultural Research Center, Aleppo, and
Dr Adnan Babi, University of Aleppo, the 2002 Basel Award for Scientific
Agricultural Research in Syria.
- At the International Soil Science Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in August, Dr John Ryan, Soil Fertility Specialist, was elected Commission Chairman for Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, of the International Union of Soil Scientists.