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About ICARDA and the CGIAR
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Established in 1977, the International Center
for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
(ICARDA) is governed by an independent
Board of Trustees. Based in Aleppo, Syria, it is
one of 16 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
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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 extending from residential courses for groups to advanced research opportunities for individuals. These efforts are supported by seminars, publications, and specialized information services.
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(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 West and Central Asia and North Africa region for the improvement of bread and durum wheats, chickpea, and farming systems.
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The CGIAR is an international group of repre-
sentatives of donor agencies, eminent agricul-
tural scientists, and institutional administrators
from developed and developing countries who
guide and support its work. The CGIAR receives
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problem-solving through interdisciplinary programs implemented by one or more of its international centers, in collaboration with a full range of partners. Such programs concentrate on increasing productivity, protecting the environment, saving biodiversity, improving policies, and contributing to strengthening agricultural research in developing countries.
The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are cosponsors of the CGIAR. The World Bank provides the CGIAR System with a Secretariat in Washington, DC. A Technical Advisory Committee, with its Secretariat at FAO in Rome, assists the System in the development of its research program.
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support from a wide variety of country and institutional members world-wide. 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 mission of the CGIAR is to promote sustainable agriculture to alleviate poverty and hunger and achieve food security in developing countries. The CGIAR conducts strategic and applied research, with its products being international public goods, and focuses its re-search agenda on
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Caravan is published four times a year, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria.
Tel.: (963-21) 2213477, 2225112, 2225012.
Fax: (963-21) 2213490/2225105.
E-Mail: ICARDA@CGIAR.ORG
Telex: 331206/331208/331263.
Web site: http://www.cgiar.org/icarda
Editor: Surendra Varma
ISSN 1025-0972
© ICARDA 1998
ICARDA encourages fair use of this material by media and
others, provided the source is quoted. Please send copies to the editor.
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