ICARDA CARAVAN

Crop Improvement and Biotechnology

Development of biosafety regulations for countries in West Asia and North Africa, ICARDA/02
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nterspecific 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
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evelopment of low-toxin/toxin-free grasspea cultivars for Bangladesh and Nepal, ICARDA/24
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tability 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
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upporting farmers' breeding: improvement of barley landraces by farmers in the Andes, ICARDA/29
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mprovement 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
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daptation 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
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ntegrated 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 net       
       work,
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 coun-         
         tries,
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
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trengthening access to, and dissemination of, information in developing countries, ICARDA/74