


Since 1978, ICARDA has provided training opportunities to thirteen thousand individuals from over 100 countries. The Center offers a wide variety of training activities to suit group and individual needs such as degree and non-degree training and long- and short-term courses. Participants in ICARDA's training program are offered the opportunity to work with a team of international scientists in the classroom, laboratory and field. ICARDA encourages national agricultural research organizations and universities to secure funding from international, regional and bilateral donor agencies to support the direct costs of training participants at ICARDA. A limited number of scholarships are available from ICARDA. A grant from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development supports Arab-country participants in these training activities.
Headquarters Training Courses (Aleppo-Syria)* (2007)| Short-term
Training Courses |
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| 4-5 February | Training workshop on economics of seed production | ICARDA |
| 12-15 March | Regional workshop on participatory plant breeding and seed supply | ICARDA/JICA |
| 18-29 March | Seed health testing | ICARDA/ACIAR |
| 1-12 April | Molecular characterisation of small ruminants | ICARDA/ILRI/SGRP/BI |
| 8-26 April | Integrated crop and livestock production | ICARDA/JICA |
| 22 April-3 May | Cereal crop improvement | ICARDA |
| 22 April-3 May # | Cropping systems and integrated pest management of cereal and legume crops | ICARDA/JICA |
| 6-10 May | Seed bank management for germplasm collection | ICARDA |
| 6-17 May | Variety management and quality assurance | ICARDA/Libya |
| 7 May-7 June | Water management for improved water use efficiency in the dry areas-water harvesting | ICARDA/JICA |
| 17-28 June | Seed health testing | ICARDA/JICA |
| 5-16 August | Design and analysis of experiments | ICARDA |
| 26 Aug.-6 Sep. | DNA molecular marker techniques for crop improvement | ICARDA/JICA |
| 21 Oct.-1 Nov. | Using modern ICT in library and information management systems | ICARDA |
| 18-29 November | Water productivity concepts and modeling | ICARDA |
| *** | Integrated land managent in drylands | ICARDA/UNU |
| *** | Livelihoods characterization, adoption and impact assessment, socio economics, gender analysis | ICARDA |
| Regional/Sub-regional
Short-term Training Courses |
Location |
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| March *** | Training course for trainers on seed marketing and promotion at Izmir, Turkey | Turkey | ICARDA/FAO/ECO/PMT | ||||||||
| 6-18 May | Wheat improvement | Tunisia | ICARDA/ICWIP/GRI/IRESA | ||||||||
| 13-23 August | Regional East Africa seed workshop | Ethiopia | ICARDA/ESE/WI | ||||||||
| 2 wks September *** | Training workshop on rust and resistance breeding | Ethiopia | ICARDA/GRI | ||||||||
| 17 Sep. - 12 Oct. | Plant genetic resources and seeds: policies, conservation and use | Ethiopia | ICARDA/NUFFIC/WI | ||||||||
| In-country
Short-term Training Courses** |
Location |
Organizers/Sponsors | |||||||||
| 22-26 January | Tailor made training program (TMTP): Diagnosis and design of regional seed sector development | Ethiopia | ICARDA/ESE/WI | ||||||||
| 25-26 February | Seed storage | Syria | ICARDA/GOSM-Syria | ||||||||
| 25 Feb.- 8 March | Design and analysis of field experiments | Algeria | ICARDA/Algeria | ||||||||
| March *** | Regional workshops on diagnosis and design of regional seed sector development (4 parallel workshops) | Ethiopia | ICARDA/ESE/WI | ||||||||
| 11-22 March | Design and analysis of field experiments | Libya | ICARDA/Libya | ||||||||
| 25-30 April | Quality seed production by VBSE farmers | Baluchistan | ICARDA/Afghanistan | ||||||||
| 2 wks May *** | Conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources | Georgia | ICARDA/Univ. of Birmingham | ||||||||
| 25 May-7 June | Quality seed production by VBSE farmers | Afghanistan | ICARDA /DAI-Afghanistan | ||||||||
| 3-14 June | Experimental station management | Libya | ICARDA/Libya | ||||||||
| 10-14 June | Advanced experimental designs and statistical analysis of data | Syria | ICARDA/Syria | ||||||||
| 20-22 June | National workshop on plant genetic resources and informal seed supply | Ethiopia | ICARDA/ESE/WI | ||||||||
| 25-27 June | National workshop on plant genetic resources and informal seed supply | Ethiopia | ICARDA/ESE/WI | ||||||||
| 30 June-10 July | Seed certification and health | Iran | ICARDA/SPCRI-Iran | ||||||||
| 1 wk July *** | Utilization of Integrated Pest Management | Syria | ICARDA/GCSAR-Syria | ||||||||
| 1 wk August *** | Farmer field school | Syria | ICARDA/GCSAR-Syria | ||||||||
| 22-23 October | Knowledge management and dissemination | Syria | ICARDA/GCSAR-Syria | ||||||||
| *** | Plant breeding | Iran | ICARDA/DARI/SPII-Iran | ||||||||
The collaborating national program of each country administers these courses through ICARDA's Regional Program Coordinator. Applications are accepted only from authorized national agricultural research systems organizations, (NARS) and universities in the host country.
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| ACIAR | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
| AFESD | Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development |
| DAI | Development Alternative Inc |
| DARI | Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (Iran) |
| ECO | Environmental Careers Organization |
| ESE | Ethiopian Seed Enterprise |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy) |
| GRI | Global Rust Initiative |
| GCSAR | General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (Syria) |
| GOSM | General Organization for Seed Multiplication (Syria) |
| ICARDA | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Syria) |
| ICWIP | ICARDA/CIMMYT Wheat Improvement Program |
| ILRI | International Livestock Research Institute (Ethiopia) |
| BI | Bioversity International (Italy) |
| IRESA | Institution de Recherche et enseignment Superieur Agricole |
| WI | Wageningen International (The Netherlands) |
| JICA | Japan International Cooperation Agency |
| NUFFIC | The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education |
| PMT | Program Committee Team |
| SGRP | Systemwide Genetic Resource Program |
| SPCRI | Seed and Plant Certification and Registration Institute (Iran) |
| SPII | Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (Iran) |
| UNU | United Nations University |
| VBSE | Village Based Seed Enterprise (Afghanistan) |
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Updated 7 February 2007
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