18-20/11/2019. ICARDA Board of Trustees. The Program Committee of the first day was open to all staff. It included:
Highlights of recent research breakthroughs and strategic questions presented by Strategic Research Priorities (CRPs) and Cross Cutting Themes (CCTs).
Building Climate Smart FARMERSThe Indian PerspectiveICARDA
Presented by
DR. KIRIT N SHELAT, I.A.S. (Rtd)
National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD)
AHMEDABAD - INDIA
SUSTAINABLE SILVOPASTORAL RESTORATION TO PROMOTE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TUNISIAICARDA
25 - 29 November 2019. Antalya, Turkey. Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) - 24th Session
Presentation by Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Rangeland Ecology & Management
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
M.Louhaichi@cigar.org
Building Climate Smart FARMERSThe Indian PerspectiveICARDA
Presented by
DR. KIRIT N SHELAT, I.A.S. (Rtd)
National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD)
AHMEDABAD - INDIA
SUSTAINABLE SILVOPASTORAL RESTORATION TO PROMOTE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TUNISIAICARDA
25 - 29 November 2019. Antalya, Turkey. Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) - 24th Session
Presentation by Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Rangeland Ecology & Management
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
M.Louhaichi@cigar.org
Presentation by Bob Winterbottom (Director, Ecosystem Services Initiative, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Dennis Garrity (Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Chris Reij (Senior Fellow, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Abdoulaye Mando at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
5. Bhungroo: Water Management solutions to support diversified cropping syste...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
5. Bhungroo: Water Management solutions to support diversified cropping systems for men and women in northern Ghana (Presented by Paa Kofi Osei-Owusu of Conservation Alliance International) presented at #AASW7 Kigali
Presented by IWMI's Petra Schmitter at a session entitled 'Supporting profitable and sustainable farmer-led agriculture' at the Water for Food Global Conference, in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, on April 29, 2019.
Resource conservation, tools for screening climate smart practices and public...Prabhakar SVRK
Natural resources continue to play an important role in livelihood and wellbeing of millions. Over exploitation and degradation of natural resource base have led to declining factor productivity in rural areas and dwindling farm profits coupled with debilitating impact on human health. This necessitates promoting technologies that can help producing food keeping pace with the growing population while conserving natural resource base and be profitable. Achieving this conflicting target though appears to be challenging but is possible with the currently available technologies. This lecture will provide insights into a gamut of resource conserving technologies, the role of communities in promoting them and tools that can help in identifying suitable technologies for adoption. The lecture will heavily borrow sustainable agriculture cases from the Asia Pacific region.
Outline
• Natural resource dependency and rural development
o Trends in resource depletion and impact on food production
o Farm profitability trends and input use
o Trends in factor productivity
• Resource conserving technologies and climate smart agriculture
o What are they?
o Similarities and differences
o Costs and benefits of pursuing them
• Tools for identifying resource conserving and climate smart agriculture technologies
o Factor productivity
o Benefit cost ratios
o Marginal abatement costs
• Role of communities
o Communities as entry point
o Benefits of community participation
• Concluding thoughts
o How to scale up resource conservation?
Mehmood Hassan and Patti Kristjanson of ICRAF and CCAFS respectively presented a paper titled "CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in
research" at the ITAACC Final International Workshop, (ICIPE) Nairobi May 8-9, 2014.
With water resource variability rapidly growing and demands on water resources increasing, using digital tools and innovative, inclusive institutional approaches to address both challenges is becoming ever-more urgent.
A recent workshop under the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (Research Area on Variability, Risks and Competing Uses), showcased research outputs in two activity clusters - Managing Resource Variability and Risks for Resilience and Managing Competing Uses and Trade-offs - that can help increase water security for poor rural users while also improving food security and rural livelihoods.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Geo-Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Sustainable AgroecosystemsICARDA
16-17 March 2019. Cairo, Egypt. 5th General Assembly of the Arab Water Council .
Presentation by Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Presentation by Bob Winterbottom (Director, Ecosystem Services Initiative, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Dennis Garrity (Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Chris Reij (Senior Fellow, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Abdoulaye Mando at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
5. Bhungroo: Water Management solutions to support diversified cropping syste...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
5. Bhungroo: Water Management solutions to support diversified cropping systems for men and women in northern Ghana (Presented by Paa Kofi Osei-Owusu of Conservation Alliance International) presented at #AASW7 Kigali
Presented by IWMI's Petra Schmitter at a session entitled 'Supporting profitable and sustainable farmer-led agriculture' at the Water for Food Global Conference, in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, on April 29, 2019.
Resource conservation, tools for screening climate smart practices and public...Prabhakar SVRK
Natural resources continue to play an important role in livelihood and wellbeing of millions. Over exploitation and degradation of natural resource base have led to declining factor productivity in rural areas and dwindling farm profits coupled with debilitating impact on human health. This necessitates promoting technologies that can help producing food keeping pace with the growing population while conserving natural resource base and be profitable. Achieving this conflicting target though appears to be challenging but is possible with the currently available technologies. This lecture will provide insights into a gamut of resource conserving technologies, the role of communities in promoting them and tools that can help in identifying suitable technologies for adoption. The lecture will heavily borrow sustainable agriculture cases from the Asia Pacific region.
Outline
• Natural resource dependency and rural development
o Trends in resource depletion and impact on food production
o Farm profitability trends and input use
o Trends in factor productivity
• Resource conserving technologies and climate smart agriculture
o What are they?
o Similarities and differences
o Costs and benefits of pursuing them
• Tools for identifying resource conserving and climate smart agriculture technologies
o Factor productivity
o Benefit cost ratios
o Marginal abatement costs
• Role of communities
o Communities as entry point
o Benefits of community participation
• Concluding thoughts
o How to scale up resource conservation?
Mehmood Hassan and Patti Kristjanson of ICRAF and CCAFS respectively presented a paper titled "CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in
research" at the ITAACC Final International Workshop, (ICIPE) Nairobi May 8-9, 2014.
With water resource variability rapidly growing and demands on water resources increasing, using digital tools and innovative, inclusive institutional approaches to address both challenges is becoming ever-more urgent.
A recent workshop under the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (Research Area on Variability, Risks and Competing Uses), showcased research outputs in two activity clusters - Managing Resource Variability and Risks for Resilience and Managing Competing Uses and Trade-offs - that can help increase water security for poor rural users while also improving food security and rural livelihoods.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Geo-Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Sustainable AgroecosystemsICARDA
16-17 March 2019. Cairo, Egypt. 5th General Assembly of the Arab Water Council .
Presentation by Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
ICRISAT newsletter - Happenings, featured 2 stories from TL III workshops held in Nairobi, Kenya. 1. TL III Monitoring Learning and Evaluation workshop and TL III Genetic Gains - Program Improvement Plan. Read the happenings document for detailed deliberations and way forward from both the workshops.
ICRISAT Research Program West and Central Africa 2016 Highlights-Development ...ICRISAT
Groundnut’s major contribution to rural cash earnings in Mali and Nigeria is being cemented by efficient science delivery and enhanced genetic gains. Its importance made it a priority crop for ICRISAT’s crop improvement program that works with partners to scale up the transfer of improved groundnut production technologies, including improved varieties. These efforts also span technology demonstrations, capacity building and strengthening groundnut seed systems.
Presentation by Aly Abousabaa from ICARDA at the Breeding Advantage event on the sidelines of COP23.
More information about the event series: https://bit.ly/AgAdvantage
The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives.
Role of agricultural biotechnologies in addressing food and nutrition security challenges in Africa: Perspectives from the Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting 2019:CGIAR Research Program Grain Legumes and...ICRISAT
The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Agri-food Systems (CRP GLDC) focused on increasing the productivity, profitability, resilience and marketability of critical and nutritious grain legume and cereal crops grown in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate changeICARDA
Parallel oral thematic sessions II Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate change (ICARDA session)
Organiser: Charles Kleinerman, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Contact: C.kleinermann(at)cgiar.org
Date: Thursday, 19.09.2019, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Main purpose of the Parallel oral thematic session:
Presentations in this session will show how current research conducted by ICARDA and its partners in the CWANA region can support a transition towards nutrition-sensitive and climate smart cereal-based agri-food systems under irrigated and rainfed conditions. We will show in particular how plant breeding, agronomy, livestock feeding and systems analysis can be combined to support this diversification and sustainable intensification of cereal-based agri-food systems.
Incremental transformation: systems agronomy in dryland farming systemsGlobal Plant Council
"Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science" GPC Symposium on 4th Nov. 2018 , CSSA/ASA Annual meeting In Baltimore USA.
John Kirkegaard CSIRO Agriculture and Food Australia. Incremental transformation: systems agronomy in dryland farming systems
Tenth bulletin of the quarterly publication of Tropical Legumes III (TL III) ...Tropical Legumes III
This edition highlights the progress made under Objective 3 of the project: To enhance cowpea productivity and production in drought-prone areas of sub-Saharan Africa and Objective
6: Sustainable and impact-oriented legume seed delivery systems for smallholders – Cowpea seed system
during 2 years of the project.
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Can we measure female social entrepreneurship? ICARDA
1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network:Private Enterprise and Inclusion12-13 December 2019
Presentation by Anastasia Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings and Bénédicte Gastineau
The presentation is a brief highlight of the rationale for mobile data collection and the landscape of the mobile data collection platforms that exist, and the potential considerations for a choice of a choice of open data kit as a subject of the training
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/10373
See also:
https://www.icarda.org/media/events/monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-data-management-and-geo-informatics-option-context
BRINGING INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY ALONG THE WHOLE VALUE CHAIN IN THE MED...ICARDA
Tunis, 6-7 November 2019. Training workshop PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
Presentation by Prof. M. Hachicha National Research Institute in Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry, University of Carthage | UCAR
Utilizing the reject brine from desalination for implementing integrated agri...ICARDA
14-15 November 2019. Madrid. International Symposium on the use of Non-Conventional Waters to achieve Food Security
DESALINATION - “Advancing desalination: reducing energy consumption and environmental footprint”
Presentation by Ms Dionysia Lyra, International Centre on Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), United Arab Emirates
The role of higher and vocational education and training in developing knowle...ICARDA
25 October 2019. Africa-Europe event on higher education collaboration
Investing in skills and the young generation is key for sustainable social and economic development. Africa and Europe have been working together to develop high quality and inclusive higher education systems, exchange experience in matching skills with the demands of the labour market and to support collaboration, mobility and exchange between students and scientists within and between the African continent and Europe.
Characteristics of a winning research proposal ICARDA
Tunis, 6-7 November 2019. Training workshop PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
Yehia Selmi, co-founder, Bio-wonder, Tunisia.
28 October 2019. Cairo. On the occasion of the 10th Africa Food Day Commemoration, held in joint food and nutrition security research and innovation projects within the Africa-EU Partnership.
Panel 4: Panel 4 – Idea-carriers:
Dr. Jacques Wery, Deputy Director General Research, ICARDA (CGIAR)
28 October 2019. On the occasion of the 10th Africa Food Day Commemoration, held in Egypt under the chairmanship of the African Union by Egypt in 2019, the North Africa event, organized by LEAP4FNSSA with the support of ARC/ Agricultural Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, launched a public private alliance of partners between Europe and North Africa to develop joint food and nutrition security research and innovation projects within the Africa-EU Partnership
Funding networks and mechanisms to support EU AU FNSSA R&I ICARDA
Dr. Bernard Mallet, Agriculture Projects Coordinator, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
28 October. On the occasion of the 10th Africa Food Day Commemoration, held in Egypt under the chairmanship of the African Union by Egypt in 2019, the North Africa event, organized by LEAP4FNSSA with the support of ARC/ Agricultural Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, launched a public private alliance of partners between Europe and North Africa to develop joint food and nutrition security research and innovation projects within the Africa-EU Partnership
https://www.icarda.org/media/events/building-research-and-innovation-collaborations-within-frame-african-european
Mapping suitable niche for cactus and legumes in diversified farming in drylandsICARDA
Presentation by Chandrashekhar Biradar and team.
16-18 October 2019. Hyderabad, India. TRUST: Humans, Machines & Ecosystems. This year’s Convention was hosted by The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). The Platform is led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Improving Water Productivity: options at farm level.ICARDA
Presentation by Mr. Atef Swelam (ICARDA),
Technical Session 8: “Water productivity as the cornerstone of water-limited food production.”
Monday 21/10/2019
Cairo, Egypt, October 20-24, 2019. The 2nd Cairo Water Week (CWW)
Use of On-farm Low Cost Techniques in Smallholders Irrigation- Experiences fr...ICARDA
Presentation by Dr. Ithar Khalil
World Food Programme
Egypt Country Egypt
Eng. Othman El Shaikh
Project Manager
Building Resilient Food Security Systems to Benefit the Southern Egypt Region Project
DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarci...ICARDA
Cairo Water Week 2019
Cairo 20th-24th October 2019
Plenary Session 1: “Achieving the SDGs under Water Scarcity”
Sunday 20/10/19 (9:30-12:00)
The panelists of this session brought broad perspectives to respond to the many water-related linkages across all the SDGs.
Panelists
• Ms. Bianca Nijhof, Director of the Netherlands Water Partnership, board member of the Amsterdam International Water Week, The Netherlands
• H.E. Mr. Mohamed AbdEl Aty, Minister of water resources and irrigation, Egypt
• Eng. Yousef Al Aitan, Ministry of the Environment and water Resources, Jordan – ‘Sustainable Development Platform of Water & Sanitation in Jordan’
• Eng. Eweda Morshed, Chairman of the Department of Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Dr. Felix Reinders, President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
• Mr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General ICARDA, ‘DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarcity in the drylands’ (tbc)
• Mr. Manuel Sapiano, Chief Executive Officer at The Energy and Water Agency, Malta
‘DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarc...ICARDA
Cairo Water Week 2019
Cairo 20th-24th October 2019
Plenary Session 1: “Achieving the SDGs under Water Scarcity”
Sunday 20/10/19 (9:30-12:00)
The panelists of this session brought broad perspectives to respond to the many water-related linkages across all the SDGs.
Panelists
• Ms. Bianca Nijhof, Director of the Netherlands Water Partnership, board member of the Amsterdam International Water Week, The Netherlands
• H.E. Mr. Mohamed AbdEl Aty, Minister of water resources and irrigation, Egypt
• Eng. Yousef Al Aitan, Ministry of the Environment and water Resources, Jordan – ‘Sustainable Development Platform of Water & Sanitation in Jordan’
• Eng. Eweda Morshed, Chairman of the Department of Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Dr. Felix Reinders, President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
• Mr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General ICARDA, ‘DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarcity in the drylands’ (tbc)
• Mr. Manuel Sapiano, Chief Executive Officer at The Energy and Water Agency, Malta
COMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PRIMA PROGRAMME ICARDA
7 - 8 October 2019. Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. Cairo, Egypt. PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
Presentation by: Dr. Mohamed A. Wageih, Project Officer, PRIMA Programme
Ms. Julia H. Swaling, Project Manager, ICARDA
Presentation by Yasser Elshayeb Chief of Party, Center of Excellence for Water, The American University in Cairo.
2 October 2019. Cairo. IFPRI/ICARDA/IWMI/WorldFish seminar. Options for improving irrigation water efficiency for sustainable agricultural development. The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives.
20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CIP, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI and IRRI with ICARDA and IFPRI interested and on remote.
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Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
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Highlights on 2019 research outputs and outcomes
1. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
icarda.org cgiar.org
A CGIAR Research Center
Highlights on 2019 research
outputs and outcomes
BOT 65 – PC Meeting
November 18, 2019
DDG-R, Program Directors and Team Coordinators
2. icarda.org 2
SRP1: Preserve, protect and use agricultural biodiversity
of the non-tropical dry areas in order to meet future
climates and market related challenges
Genetic Resources Team
Ahmed Amri (coord.)
Mariana Yazbek
Zakaria Kehel
Athanasios Tsivelikas
Ali Shehadeh
Presentation: Michael Baum
3. icarda.org 3
Latest major developments and achievements in core genebank activities
2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-19
Regenerated Svalbard/Routine Regenerated Svalbard/Routine Regenerated Svalbard/Routine Regenerated Svalbard/Routine
Morocco 16,066 14,847/1219 17,197 15,475/1722 19,278 18,470/808 19,243 16,003/3240
Lebanon 13,456 4497/8959 8915 5191/3724 14,022 8495/5527 11,247 5470/5777
Total 29,522 26,112 33,300 30,490
• Total of 95,799 accessions regenerated, characterized and processed into active and
base collections in Lebanon and Morocco (61% of holdings).
• All these accessions will be safety duplicated between Lebanon and Morocco ICARDA
genebanks. Around 70,000 accessions already sent to Svalbard for long-term
conservation.
• Bar-coding applied for all field and laboratory activities and use of tablets for
characterization.
• 900 strains of rhizobium regenerated and characterized with 400 lyophilized.
• Viability testing still a backlog.
• External review report: Highly positive.
Expansion of genebank facilities in Morocco to have the
capacity of storage of 150,000 accessions for each of active
and base collections;
Genetic Resources Activities
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Collecting missions in Lebanon and Tajikistan
B. Adaptation to climate change
Targeted collecting missions through GAP analysis
164 samples collected from 25 sites (28 different genera, mostly landraces) at Tajikistan
261 samples collected from 77 sites (7 genera, mostly landraces) in Lebanon
5. icarda.org 5
• New sources of resistance to major insects and diseases found in
case of barley, lentil and wheat.
• More than 4700 samples were evaluated for quality attributes (grain
scanning, protein content, etc. ).
• Successful interspeciffic crosses between grass pea and six wild
Lathyrus species for transgressing resistance to Orobanche and low
ODAP content.
• International workshop on “Use of Crop wild relatives in pre-
breeding”, 24-26 April 2019, in Morocco, attended by 125
participants.
• FIGS approach links adaptive traits, environments (and associated
selection pressures) with genebank accessions (e.g. landraces and
crop wild relatives).
• A total of 13 FIGS subsets were provided to partners, more than
13,500 samples distributed in 2018 and additional 1600 samples so
far in 2019.
Linking conservation to use of genetic resources
6. FAP Team
Stefanie Christmann
Aden Aw-Hassan
Pierre Rasmont
Patrick Lhomme
6 phD students
INRA
Rachid Mrabet
Moulay Chrif Smaili
6
Presentation: Michael Baum
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• Analysis of results based on 120 fields in 2018:
- 177% income gain on average
- 55% average reduction of pests
• Collaboration with ONCA started in 2019 for
outscaling in Morocco
Field trials and outscaling in Morocco
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10 May 2019 Morocco joined the Coalition of the Willing on
Pollinators as first Arab country
Currently we work on the National Strategy and Action Plan for
pollinator protection using a new cross-sector policy mix (Christmann
2019a)
Knowledge sharing on FAP and value of pollinators
→ Aichi targets 1 and 7
8 min film of Deutsche Welle in 4 languages
45 min film in English/Arabic under preparation
Various blogs
Project website online
https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/iki-pollinators
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High recognition for the project and FAP globaly
2 invitations to present during COP CBD
• invitation by the Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators
(18 November 2018) on FAP induced income increase
• invitation by FAO (25 November 2018) – Cross-sector policy strategy
Article in The Guardian
→ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/scientist-
unveils-blueprint-to-save-bees-and-enrich-farmers
• 3rd Elsevier Agriculture and Climate Change Conference, March 2019
in Budapest,
October 2019 Global Development Network
• Global Development Conference 23-25 October 2019
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SRP2 Develop climate-adapted crops and livestock for greater
food and nutritional security in the face of increasing water
scarcity, climate change and changing markets
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Decoding genetic mechanisms for adaptation in African indigenous sheep:
genomic regions associated with fat tail deposition
3. Long fat-tail (southern) vs Long thin-tail
NPR2 - Fat Depth EYA2; SULF2 – Development
of bones and cartilage
FABP3 – Fatty acid metabolism, Backfat thickness and Subcutaneous
and Intramuscular fat content
HSPH1 – Heat stress adaptation
Possible candidate genes for fat deposition,
metabolism and localization:
- NPR2 and FABP3
Possible candidate genes for tail length:
- EYA2 and SULF2
Possible candidate genes for heat stress adaptation:
- HSPH1
Published article:
1. Fat-rump vs long thin-tail
2. Long fat tail vs long thin-tail
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AniCloud/ AniCapture developed
• Data base platform called AniCloud has been
developed in collaboration with EMBRAPA and
Abacus Bio
• The platform is used to capture and store data
• It integrates with the AniCapture smart device
software designed for offline gathering of data
in situation where connectivity is challenging
• Anicloud can also build reports, do analysis and
create graphics
• AniCloud works for any species, any record and
Anywhere.
Tools for rapid data collection and
management
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Sheep
Breed Village HHs
Lambing records
with pedigree
Weight
record
Bonga 2 359 14215 22899
Doyogena 5 477 5097 7709
Menz 3 208 20837 58306
Horro 2 140 11438 14757
Total 12 1184 51587 103671
Data made available online on sheep
CBBPs in Ethiopia
15. Cereals Team
Michael Baum (coord.)
Wuletaw Tadesse
Filippo Bassi
Mustapha Bouhsini
Kumarse Nazari
SM Udupa
Solomon Assefa
Mesut Keser
Ram Sharma
Miguel Garcia-Sanchez
Andrea Visioni
15
Presentation: Michael Baum
16. • One Global Wheat Program is
approved and fully aligned with
ICARDA’s major focus to be on
rainfed wheat breeding program.
• The CIMMYT Australia ICARDA
Germplasm Exchange project
(CAIGE) in spring bread wheat
(165k) was extended for three
years approved.
• For wheat speed breeding
facilities are being developed in
Toluca and are available for
CIMMT and ICARDA; crosses can
be made in Toluca, advanced to F4
via speed breeding and receive
material for testing in North
Africa. Participatory Variety Selection, demonstration under Conservation
Agriculture, and linkage across the value chain in Morocco
Spring bread wheat program
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A product profile strategy for Durum Wheat
Principles of working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Need to improve our understanding of the clients
(farm system, farm size, farm composition, access
to market)
• Need to have better access to stakeholders
We need to define better the TPE with
“climatologists”
including “social TPE” with “socio-economists”
and “management TPE” with “agronomists”
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Durum Wheat comparison of germplasm strategies
Genomic selection works: less crosses, less field, more glasshouse
Marchouch 2017-18Marchouch 2018-19
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Durum wheat impact in Ethiopia
• Released in 2015 as ‘Utuba’ for SR resistance and high
yield
• On farm yield 4.7-5.2 tons per hectare
• 1 t ha-1 more than the previously cultivated variety
• It has been demonstrated and scaled by AfricaRISING
and AICS
• Minjar and Oromia farmers have purchased >40 tons of
seeds in 2018.
• Alvima PLC pasta factory is making contracts with
farmers to buy the harvest at 500 Birr more than normal
price
• Profit gain is measured at +1,020 usd per ha
Nachit
2018, PM Tony Blair with Nobel Peace price winner
PM Abiy Ahmed to Utuba fields
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Barley breeding
• 21 Product Profiles for 7 countries
updated in EiB website
• Eight new high yielding barley cultivars released from the ICARDA spring
barley elite germplasm (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia and India)
• MAS strategy implemented, 105 SNP markers for abiotic
stress, phenology, biotic stress and quality
• Fast Generation Advancement protocol established; next step is
enclosing disease screening during generation advance
• BYDV success story : Pyramiding of
Ryd3 with Ryd2 through MAS
• Identification of several elite lines for
“Dual Purpose” barley
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Trait Locus SNPid Position Germplasm Remarks Status
Stripe Rust AK361289 SCRI_RS_188827 4H 97.29 cM Lenetah x Granellose Zwellige MLO locus Validated
Stripe Rust SCRI_RS_189878 6H 31.29 cM Lenetah x Granellose Zwellige Validated
Stripe Rust AK373449 11_10069 7H 81.07 Lenetah x Granellose Zwellige Validated
Net Bloch 11_10383 2H 10.9 cM iSlelect SNP RILs Falcon x Azul Global set of p.teres isolates
Net Bloch AK360727 11_20269 4H 31.2 cM iSlelect SNP RILs Falcon x Azul Global set of p.teres isolates
Net Bloch SCRI_RS_146867 6H 54.89 iSlelect SNP ICARDA Li-AM
Spot blotch 11_10253 3H 78cM iSlelect SNP reported in different studies
Spot blotch AK358288 11_11497 5H 155cM iSlelect SNP reported in different studies
Spot blotch AK371919 11_10939 6H 33cM iSlelect SNP reported in different studies
Scald AK361933 11_10005 1.2 cM from Rrs1 iSlelect SNP DH with Betarix (Higly Susceptible) Fine mapping , CAPS, SSR
A total of 105 markers selected from database, literature
and in-house GWAS studies:
• 64 abiotic stress and phenology
• 5 quality
• 12 stripe rust
• 8 net blotch
• 14 spot blotch
• 2 for scald
A first step toward: genotyping of 1500 genotypes within winter and spring barley with a subset of 10 markers:
Implementing MAS for Both Spring and Winter Barley
23. Legumes Team
Shiv Kumar Agrawal (coord.)
Aladdin Hamwieh
Fouad Maalouf
Ashutosh Sarker
Seid Ahmed Kemal
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Presentation: Michael Baum
24. Speed Breeding Protocol for Cool-season Food Legumes
Photoperiod of 22 h light/25.5 °C and 2 h dark/15 °C
Year 1
Year 1
Year 2
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 1
Year 1
Year 2
Year 2
Year 2
Year 2
Year 3
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25. Orobanche resistance in Faba bean-Egypt
Field evaluation at Sids Station –March 2019
Visit of minister of Agriculture with
ICARDA DG- Sids March 2019
Trait Mean No. of Best entries Range Ratio%
DFLR 49.93 49 42-67 -15.9 to -34.3
DMAT 149.67 48 145-155 -3.1 to – 3.7
NBPLT 5.59 39 2-13 -64 to132.5
NPPLT 38.71 41 19-105 -50.9 to171. 3
NSPLT 125.09 39 72-335 -42.4 to 167.8
PLHT 103.54 36 50-135 -51.2 to30.3
GYPLT 108.16 39 79.4-294.8 -26.6 to172. 6
Sq. Or 2.54 54 0-4 -100 to - 57.25
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32. Seed Systems Team
Zewdie Bishaw (Coord.)
Aziz Niane (international Nurseries)
Safaa Kumari (Seed Health Lab.)
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Presentation: Michael Baum
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Scaling improved crop technologies
In 2018/19 crop season, under seed and scaling projects on chickpea, faba bean
and malt barley 2,258 tons of seed was distributed through small-seed packs by
ICARDA, partners and stakeholders and 17,607 ha were planted benefitting
78,811 farmers in Ethiopia
Under TAAT, EGS production with NARS and partnering with public and private
sector for certified seed and with communities for quality declared seed (QDS)
production is a major undertaking in target countries like Ethiopia, Nigeria and
Sudan
• About 204 participants from NARS, public and privates seed sector,
regulatory agencies, development practitioners and policy makers from
the Ministries of Agriculture attended the workshop in 3 countries
• In Sudan, 213.5 tons of EGS and 280 tons of QDS produced by NARS and
communities at IP sites, respectively. A High Seed Self-Sufficiency
Committee established to spearhead self-sufficiency in wheat production
where close to 50,000 tons of certified seed was produced in partnership
between public (58%) and private sector (42%) composed of 15 private
seed companies
Seed Systems, International Nurseries and Seed Health
Wheat seed production fields
in Sudan
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• In Ethiopia 176.4 tons of EGS produced by NARS and 201.8 tons of
QDS by farmers in IP sites in rainfed highlands and irrigated
lowlands. Partnership with public sector led to production of 26,800
tonnes of certified seed by ESE and OSE
• In Nigeria, about 25.7 tons of breeder seed produced by NARS and
SG200 and 2150.3 tons of basic seed produced by private seed
companies
• In Syria, ICARDA is working in collaboration with FAO under DFID
funded project to rehabilitate the seed sector and to accelerate the
agricultural sector recovery in the country (including training)
• In 2019, about 43.6 tons of basic seeds of wheat, barley, chickpea
and lentil was produced working with farmers in two target districts
in Aleppo province.
• The basic seed will be used for in-coming EU project where it will be
multiplied further on 360 ha and produce an estimated 1552.3 tons
of certified seed in 2019/20 crop season
Seed Systems for scaling improved crop
technologies
Early generation seed multiplication plots in
Syria
National seed workshop in Nigeria
Participants of training course from Syria
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Distribution of international nurseries
A total of 1208 sets of international nurseries
were distributed to 139 co-operators in 46
countries.
50% Observation nurseries (F4)
50% Elite Nurseries (F7)
Varietal releases
Partnership with NARS led to release of new
improved varieties with key traits such as high
grain yield and grain quality, abiotic (drought,
heat) and biotic (rusts) stress tolerance, early
maturity, etc.
Three bread wheat and two winter wheat
varieties were released in Afghanistan and
Turkey, respectively.
International Nurseries
Distribution of international nurseries 2019/20
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• ICARDA’s Seed Health Laboratory facilitates the international
movement of germplasm among collaborators
• SHLs in Lebanon and Morocco provided services in
monitoring quarantine pests and phytosanitary clearances in
collaboration with national plant quarantine services in host
countries
• Gene banks: 9,767 accessions
• Breeding programs: 8,559 breeding lines
• International nurseries: 3,293 elite lines
Seed Health for International germplasm
movement
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Building resilience
Integrated crop-livestock farming systems to address economic,
social, and environmental conditions
Integrated approaches across Research teams:
• Small Ruminants,
• Rangeland & Forages,
• Soil, Water & Agronomy,
• Social, Economy & Policy
Presentation: Barbara RischkowskyPresentation: Barbara Rischkowsky
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Science of the Total Environment 692: 1223 – 1233. 2019
IF: 5.589
Assessing the long-term impact of conservation agriculture on wheat-based systems in Tunisia
using APSIM simulations under a climate change context
Haithem Bahri a, Mohamed Annabib, Hatem Cheikh M’hamed b, Aymen Frija c
a National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (INRGREF), Tunisia.
b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie (INRAT), Tunisia.
c International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Area (ICARDA), Tunis Office.
Scientific evidence: Conservation Agriculture (CA) to adapt
wheat-based-systems to climate change in Tunisia
This evidence from Tunisia is
important to demonstrate to policy
and decision makers that sustainable
durum wheat production is possible
under climate change conditions in
Tunisia through adoption of CA
practices in both sub-humid and
semi-arid areas.
This paper shows how Zero-tillage and soil residue retention vs.
Conventional Tillage over 260,000 ha makes wheat production more
resilient to climate change in Tunisia through:
Enhancing wheat yield (15%),
Improvement of water use efficiency (13% to 18%),
Increase organic carbon accumulation (0.13 t ha−1 year−1 to 0.18 t
ha−1 year−1);
Reduction of soil loss caused by water runoff (1.7 t ha −1 year −1 to
4.6 t ha−1 year −1 of soil loss). Healthy Soils (under CA), Kef,
Tunisia
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CLCA practices
Conventional Tillage
Rainfall simulator in
Chouarnia Site – Seliana,
Establishment of Wischmeyer
plots in EI Krib site – Seliana,68
365
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
CLCA system Conventional
Tillage
Soilloss(Kgha-1)
SOIL RESILIENCE - PREVENTING WATER
EROSION Chouarnia Site - Seliana, Tunisia
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72
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
CLCA System Conventional
Tillage
Soilloss(kgha-1)
SOIL RESILIENCE - PREVENTING WATER
EROSION
El Krib Site - Seliana, Tunisia
At the end of the CLCA-II Project in 2022, results from
these two (2) sites related to soil health and water use
efficiency will provide invaluable information on the
impact of a CLCA system on natural resources.
CLCA practices for soil resilience, El Krib Site - Tunisia
Scientific evidence: The value of CLCA system to combat soil
erosion in Tunisia (6 consecutive years)
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Recently completed studies in Morocco showed that:
• Retention of 30% and 60% residue on the field led to respectively 22.8% and 39%
higher yields in the subsequent crop.
• Ownership of livestock and problem of pests and unavailability of herbicides have
negative and significant effect on the decision whether or not to retain residue.
• Adoption of ZT led to 660 kg/ha (73.6%) higher yields, US$213.5/ha (77%) higher net
returns, 18.9 kg/capita/year (32.6%) more consumption of wheat and 100% and
65.6% reductions in the risks of obtaining yield levels below 500 kg/ha and 1000
kg/ha respectively.
• The first tillage led to the highest yield loss where loss were consistently reduced
with each additional tillage.
Socio-economic justifications for adoption of residue retention
and Zero Tillage
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Promoting Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) as drought
resilient feed resource under different agro-
ecological production systems across India
The best planting time in India is July before the monsoon
Alordonalyoom TV, Enjaznews, Malf news, Noor Jordan news, Al Difteen news, Jebal Alblaqaa news,
Alrai, Amen Amm, Al Mrfa’a News, Shbeb news, Al Raad news, Ammon news, Al Anbat news, Ouion,
Free sound, Jordan news agency, Al Raad news, Al Difteen news, Ouion, Nabd Al Share’e, Ammon
news
Regional Training Course on Cactus Pear Evaluation & Best-Agronomic Practices: 13-19
July 2019. Jordan
Visibility for ICARDA: Wide coverage through television and local newspapers (20+)
Milestone: Met objective of reaching 1,000 farmers by 2019
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
Farmers planted
cactus
Participans in
field days
Villages
Promoting cactus in India
Conduct trials: cactus agronomic and feeding best-practices
Rangeland Ecology & Forages (REF)
Team coordinator: Mounir Louhaichi
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Under a FAO funded project a pilot site was established in
Central Tunisia:
- For the first time various departments under the umbrella of the
Ministry of Agriculture are working effectively together. The site
became a center of attention at national scale and a model for
outscaling (new site(s) are being established by the forestry
department).
- In short time the project showed huge impact summarized below:
- Increased biomass (10 folds) and reduced feeding cost by at least 66%
- Afforestation survival rate higher than 80%
- Reduced soil erosion 4800 T/km2/year while storing at least 280 m3 of
water as well as reducing runoff water loss by approximately 800 m3/ha.
- Enhanced capacity development (500 trainees)
Sustainable Development of Silvopasture Production Systems
in Semi-Arid Tunisia
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Reseeded Protected Control
Biomass(tDMha)
Sulla productivity in semi-arid Tunisia
2005 2019 Before After
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Evaluation of resting duration on rangeland productivity
Rangeland productivity varies with precipitation
Long term protection (exclusion of grazing) can be
detrimental to ecosystem stability
Rigid agreement with agro-pastoralists makes them
unhappy and unwilling to embrace restoration technique
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
Rested 1 year Rested 2 years Rested 2 years Rested 3 years
Biomass(kg.DM/ha)
Stipagrostis pungens
community
2018
2019
Agro-pastoralists are happy with changes
Higher adoption of the restoration technique
ICARDA is committed to capacity development of partners
During favorable years grazing should be allowed to take
advantage of the available biomass
Livestock grazing focuses on annual species without
damaging perennials
There is a need to modify the current procedure used by
development agencies
44. Pathways for improving rangeland governance under constraining
land tenure systems: A participatory Bayesian approach
• Objective: Identify pathways for enhancing
rangeland governance under different land
tenure systems in North Africa (Tunisia).
• Hypothesis: Different land tenure systems
involve different pathways (enabling
factors) for good rangeland governance.
• We tested three types of “grazing vs land
tenure systems”:
o Grazing in collective rangeland: collective
tenure systems.
o Grazing in private rangelands: private tenure
systems.
o Combined grazing in private and collective
rangelands: private tenure embedded into
larger collective tenure.
• Concept: We consider “rangeland
management” as part of an overall
socioecological systems.
Conceptualization of the role of rangeland management
Methodology: Bayesian belief network (BBN) to
characterize the causal relationships within a rangeland
SES that can enable good rangeland governance.
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45. Private
embedded
into collective
Collective
only
Private only
Good relationship between Land owners and
land managers (CBOs)
Increase Increase Neutral
Well performing CBOs Strongly Increase Moderate Neutral
Capacity of CBOs to raise funds Increase Increase Neutral
CBO president is socially acceptable Increase Neutral Moderate
Competition over rangelands (diversified
production system)
Reduce Increase Strongly Increase
Well defined boundaries of rangelands
across neighbouring communities
Increase Strongly Increase Strongly Increase
The community benefited from development
(investment) projects
Increase Neutral Neutral
Pathways for improving rangeland governance under constraining
land tenure systems: A participatory Bayesian approach
• This table shows different factors
influencing rangeland governance and how
we need to act to improve governance
under different land tenure systems.
• Main remarks:
o Diversification is causing governance problems
due to competition across private and collective
ownership,
o Well performing CBOs are instrumental for good
governance under the most constraining land
tenure systems (private embedded into
collective).
o Clarifying rangeland boundaries across
neighboring areas is highly contributing to
enhance rangeland governance under collective
and private tenure,
o Public investments are sometimes causing
conflicts and negative effects on rangeland
governance, especially when they are not well
coordinated with local communities.
Pathways for enhancing rangeland governance under different land
tenure systems.
• Private land tenure embedded into larger collective
tenure, thus leading to combined grazing in private &
collective areas, are the most constraining tenure systems
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Agricultural livelihood typology-based approach
Normalized values of key variables of
three main ALS types in Egyptian study sites (AFESD project)
ALS 1: Poor, non-farm-based income,
ineffective market institution
ALS 2: Medium, balanced crop-livestock-nonfarm income,
effective market institution
ALS 2: Medium, livestock/cattle- based income,
ineffective market institution
(AMA: Agricultural
Market Association)
Whole population classified into main
livelihood system (ALS) types
Different ALS types have different
responses regarding adoption of
innovation (e.g. MRBT)
Type-specific determinant of adoption
Common determinants
ALS provide a knowledge base for
supporting better targeting, effective
out-scaling of innovations
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Resource criticality assessment by nutrient flow modeling
Macro nutrient flows in farming
system types quantified
Resource criticality assessment:
Depletion time of soil nutrient
stock
Reliance of household-farm on
own nutrient resources,
reflecting supply risk
Base for guiding farm design for
improving nutrient stocks and
effective cycles
A subset of N flows in ALS 1, Burkina Faso study site (GLDC project)
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• Efficacy of improved extension and input delivery systems in
enhancing adoption of agricultural technologies was
demonstrated:
o In the first year of the introduction of the improved
variety, introduction of wheat seeds in divisible packages
of 12.5 kg, 25 kg and 50 kg instead of the traditional supply
of only 50kg packages increased adoption by 10%.
o In the second year, improved input delivery alone did not
have significant effect, but divisible inputs along with
training of extension agents in communication and process
facilitation and working with non-model farmers instead of
working with model farmers led to 5.4% higher adoption.
Improving extension and input service delivery systems to
enhance adoption
• High turnover among officials affected our ability to influence policy but Amhara region is trying
divisible input packages now.
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Traveling Workshop: Improving the integration of crop-livestock systems and conservation
agriculture in the sheep-cereal production systems of North Africa
Date & Place: 1st to 4th July 2019, Tunisia;
# of Total participants: 23 (07 female) [Technical advisors, coordinators and collaborators];
# of countries: 03 (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia);
Places visited: Tunis, Fernena-Jendouba, Chouarnia/Makthar-Seliana, El Krib-Seliana, Laaroussa-SELIANA;
Blog: https://www.icarda.org/media/news/improving-integration-crop-livestock-systems-and-conservation-agriculture
Validation of unified tools for the sustainable use of stubble consistent
with CA package,
Introduction of alternative feeding methods under CA,
Intensification of forage options,
Keeping livestock for profit,
Development of KM tools for the packages under consideration.
50. Promoting value chains, policies
Agriculture as an income-generating business for many
poor smallholder households
Social, Economy & Policy team
In collaboration with Cereals and Legume teams.
Presentation: Barbara Rischkowsky
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Presentation: Barbara Rischkowsky
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Dairy Processing Training for Vulnerable Refugee and Host-community
Women in Irbid - Jordan Caritas
• 3 training courses were conducted
• 60 women were trained on dairy processing
• Improvement in knowledge was 21%
• 30 trained women were visited regularly
every 2 weeks for follow up.
• The follow up lasted 3 months
• Faced problems related to processing and
hygiene were documented and solved.
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80
100
CH1 X11 XO1 YC 82 YC 180 YC 381
Texture Acidity
Results of sensory evaluation for yogurt culture
conducted during the course
Presence of mold
forms a hygienic issue
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New Ideas (RALS-WLE)
Integrated food drying and backyard agriculture
Collection of different type of water
to be used in back yard agriculture Use of suitable irrigation system
(underground irrigation)
Air forced sun drier for food
(jameed, herbs, tomatoes, spices)
Solar panel to power ventilation
fans
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SRP5: Enhancing water and land productivity
• Rainfed, irrigated, and agro-pastoral farming
• Reversal of environmental degradation
• Enhance intensification
Presentation: Jacques Wery
55. ICARDA, in collaboration with FAO-RNE, has recently activated a NENA Regional-Network
of field ETa monitoring including (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia), to build
the capacity in field ETa measurements, accuracy assessment of RS ETa data of different
databases, and provide the opportunity for RS algorithms calibration
MENA ET-Network: Establishing and Operating Regional Network for Field Measurements of
Actual Crop Water Consumption (Evapotranspiration)
Enhancing water productivity by improving on-farm irrigation management in Minya and Fayoum, Egypt
Project objectives for 2019 have been achieved:
1) developed geodatabase for the project locations and activities,
2) improved 18 marwas rehabilitation with 9,500 m-length which reduced
irrigation time by 40% and reduced applied irrigation by 10%;
3) implemented laser land levelling in 500 demonstration fields which
increased yield by 10% and reduced water applied by 15%, and wheat
mechanized raisedbed cultivation in 500 demonstration fields and 3
consolidated platforms which saved water applied by 25% and increased
yield by 30%; and
4) trained and empowered 8 water user associations, trained 40 farmers, 10
extension officers and 5 researchers. Two farmer field schools and four field
days attended by 300 farmers.
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56. Two sites for direct and indirect reuse of treated wastewater in upper
Egypt and Nile Delta were identified and site characterization report is
developed.
Discussions with farmers to assess the current challenges and
opportunities in the selected site.
Frist Learning Alliance for the relevant stakeholders and uptake
partners was conducted and the questionnaire for the national
baseline survey finalized.
Data collection of the national baseline assessment is underway.
An intern was hosted at ICARDA to work on the project activities as
part of capacity building.
The project’s gender specialist participated in the regional gender
training workshop.
Wastewater Reuse in the MENA Region: Addressing the Challenges
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57. CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals
(CRP GLDC)
Flagship 3: Integrated Farm and Household Management
Assess the different roles of men and women within and across five Agricultural
Livelihood Systems and examine the potential challenges and opportunities to adopt
and benefit from recommended packages.
Description Burkina Faso Ethiopia
Villages considered Four villages in Houet Province, Bobo-
Dioulasso, Western Burkina Faso
Four districts in Moretna Jiru, North-Shewa
Amhara region, Highlands of Ethiopia
GLDC target crops Millet, sorghum, and cowpea Chickpeas and lentils
Data collection and
analysis
Household survey (428 households including
migrants and natives) and FGDs held with 24
farmers (45% women) from targeted
communities
Household survey (360) and FGDs held 80
farmers (40% women)
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58. 1. BMZ: Innovation Agriculture for Small holders Reliance
(how to scale up systemic innovation in wheat-faba
bean systems)
2. Redesigned and developed a new model of the
raisedbed machine for multi-functions for and multi-
crops. Nine machines were produced for Egypt, Syria
and Sudan (collaboration with Tanta Motors)
New Projects
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Agronomic innovations for rainfed wheat intensification
N level (kg ha-1)
Grainyield(kgha-1)
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
N-0 N-60 N-120
Application of 60 kg N which cost (~ 40
$) yield advantage of 0.7 t/ha with
additional income of ~150 $. No
additional benefit with further increase
N level after 60 kg N /ha
Fertilizer application
Grainyield(kg/ha)
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Irrigated Rainfed
43% yield increment with water mgt.
Yield advantage of 1.5 t ha-1
Additional 90 mm suppl. irrigation increase yield 1.5 t/ha
Grainyield(kg/ha)
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
NT CT
Yield advantage with NT- 0.5 t/ha
Conservation tillage
Yield advantage with adoption of NT: 0.5 t /ha
Supplementary irrigation
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Attainable yield gap in wheat: under farmers’ management
Irrigated
Grainyield(kgha-1)
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
5000
5500
6000
Population
Bottom_10%
Middle_80%
Top_10%
3994
3326
Yield gap = 1385
N= 395
3907
5379
Rainfed
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
Population
Bottom_10%
Middle_80%
Top_10%
Yield gap = 514
N= 1901
897
1411
872
597
Attainable yield gap: Irrigated environment: 1.38 t ha/ha, Rainfed: 0.5 t/ha
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Yield determinants for rainfed & irrigated wheat
Rainfed
0 10 20 30 40
Phosphorus
Certified_seed
Nitrogen
Variety
Previous_crop
Seed rate
Variety_release
Seed treat.
Pesticide
Rainfall
Dist. seedsource
Education
Credit
District
Family_involved
Gov. incentive
Herbicide
Phosphorus level, use of certified seed,
Nitrogen level, variety, Previous crop, Seed rate
were the major yield determinants for rainfed
environment
Irrigated
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Variables
Previous_crop
Variety
Variety_release
Certified_seed
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
District
Seed treat.
Dist. seedsource
Rainfall
Education
Seed_source
Credit
Previous crop, Variety, certified seed,
Nitrogen, Phosphorus level
were major yield determinants for
irrigated environment
64. Enhancing resource use efficiency and
farmers’ income through CA
Treatment Mean yield
(kg/ha)
Gross return
(Rs./ha)
Cost of
cultivation
(Rs./ha)
Net returns
(Rs./ha)
B: C ratio
A. Tillage and Crop Establishment (Main Plot)
Conventional production system/farmer’s practice 1239 54516 28452 26064 0.92
Zero tillage based production system with standing
residue retention 1298
57112 28242 28870 1.02
Zero tillage based production system with residue
mulching 1403
61732 27142 34590 1.27
CD (0.05) 17.2 - - - -
Crop Residue(Retention/mulching)
2 ton/ha 1256 55264 27742 27522 0.99
3 ton/ha 1315 57860 28242 29618 1.05
4 ton/ha 1370 60280 28742 31538 1.09
CD (0.05) 22.4 - - - -
Cropping systems
Pearlmillet- Chickpea 1655 73260 29359 43901 1.50
Pearlmillet-Lentil 968 42592 25683 16909 0.66
Pearlmillet-Barley 1307 57508 28791 28717 0.99
CD (0.05) 22.4 - - - - 65
65. Water-Energy-Food Nexus Research
With solar power and ultra-low
energy drippers there is 72% saving
in irrigation energy and highly
profitable cash crops can be grown in
off-grid dry areas
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Mission
Take on land degradation challenges in the marginal agro-pastoral systems through watershed and disaster risk
management: Merging piloting, monitoring and modeling.
Target & strategy
Focus on Central and West Asia and Africa -> expansion across the DryArc.
Stimulate science through strategic partnership with ARIs and young scientist exchange.
Restoration Initiative on Dryland Ecosystems (RIDE Team)
(Coord. Stefan Strohmeier)
Presentation: Jacques Wery
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Al Majidyya Badia Research Site (BRS)
• Watershed: 912ha
Upland micro-water harvesting based rehabilitation
• Uplands treated: 28ha
• Uplands potential: around 50% of the
watershed area
Downstream Marab runoff irrigation agriculture
• Marab: 10ha
• Barley agriculture
• Optional: vetch, legumes, …
Watershed approach in Al Majidyya, Jordan
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Soil & Water dynamic monitoring and modeling
Scale
WatershedUplandsWaterHarvesting
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Marab agriculture
WATER
Degraded Badia water balance
• Jordan’s Ministry of Agriculture (2015) estimates more than 90% of the received rainfall evaporates
unproductively.
• ICARDA’s Badia Research Site (BRS):
• Around 130 mm average annual rainfall
• Around 20-25 mm average annual surface runoff (water loss from the catchment)
Rangeland rehabilitation & Marab at ICARDA’s BRS
• Newly established upland water harvesting (Vallerani) reduces surface runoff up to 50%; long-term
rehabilitated rangeland’s surface runoff declines by around 10-30%.
• Soil water monitoring proves Vallerani structures foster groundwater recharge.
• Through rainfall and surface runoff most Marab areas receive between 200-500 mm water per year
(retaining around 1-4 mm of the catchment’s surface runoff).
• Large events overflow the Marab -> water for downstream areas.
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Marab agriculture BARLEY
• Traditional Badia barley agriculture yields around 0.1-0.5 t ha-1 total biomass (no grain); interlinked
with severe land degradation.
• ICARDA’s enhanced Marab agriculture yielded 4.1-4.7 t ha-1 biomass incl. 1.4 t ha-1 grain
(2018/2019) for re-seeding with a high market value.
• Marab covers around 1% of the watershed and concentrates inputs (labor & cost saving).
• Marab biomass yield is 10-50x larger compared with traditional upland agriculture; considering 50%
cultivate-able watershed area the enhanced Marab agriculture approximates entire upland
production.
• Rangeland rehabilitation generates additional feed resources (shrublands) in uplands.
• Rehabilitation of vulnerable uplands combined with enhanced Marab agriculture strive towards
• i) maximized watershed scale agricultural productivity,
• ii) biodiversity and livestock feed nutrition diversity increase,
• while iii) approaching Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
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Coord. Group: Udo Ruediger,
Zewdie Bishaw, Atef Swelam and
Enrico Bonaiuti
Presentation: Barbara Rischkowsky
Scaling Up Proven
Technologies
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Showing Impact
Producing More With Less Resources: The MRB technology in Egypt
• The MRBT is an effective measure to increase both crop productivity and
water-use efficiency in intensive irrigated systems.
• Its adoption on experimental farms resulted in an increase of crop
production by 10%, net benefits increased by 40% and variable costs
reduced by 30%.
Innovation and Technology Diffusion Methods: Mind the Gap project
in Tunisia
• The field visit (with an intermediate cost) is more preferred than training
(with a high cost) and SMS text messages (with a very low cost).
• The treatment groups receiving female empowerment training, have the
highest adoption rates of the project introduced technology.
• The introduction of a low-cost (field visit and SMS) based agricultural
extension had positive and significant effects on agricultural yields
(Increases by 30%).
Graphic 1: Testing the hypothesis that mechanized raised-bed
technology (MRBT) improves farms' efficiency frontier (F)
Figure 1: New barley Kounouz variety introduced by the project
Water
Food
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Kounouz barley variety developed from ICARDA germ plasm and Tunisian local varieties has
been introduced to Tunisian seed market in 2019 through development of demand and supply.
Creation of Demand
700 farmer HH have been trained on technical and economical aspects of Kounouz
(classroom training, “on farm” and “on station” field visits, SMS, videos, etc.);
radio broadcasting; dissemination by NARES
Supply
• Two large scale seed multiplying cooperatives (COSEM and CCSPS) and one private seed
enterprise (Tunifert) were provided with basic seeds in 2018 and have produced a total of
1624 tons of certified Kounouz seeds in 2019
New drought tolerant barley variety (Kounouz) made available on
Tunisian market
Demand of barley certified seeds by farmers
(different varieties) in 2019
Supply of Kounouz certified seeds by
cooperatives and private seed enterprise
Kounouz
(since 2019)
Manel
(since 1996)
Rihane
(since 1987)
COSEM CCSPS Tunifert
584 t
(18,9%)
700 t
(22,7%)
1800 t (58,4%) 126 t 447 t 1051 t
76. Empowering Women, Youth
• Improve women’s access to land, assets, knowledge
• Use technology and commodities value chain to
engage youth (with attention paid to gender
dynamics)
• Coord.: Dina Najjar
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Presentation: Barbara Rischkowsky
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The Context
Number of breeding cooperatives have increased across the target VC sites and beyond.
Women participation is very limited. Almost, all registered women members are household heads and more than 50%
were represented by men in the cooperatives.
The Gender Capacity Development intervention:
• Workshops involve local actors: Breeding Cooperative leadership members, Cooperative Promotion office,
Livestock Agency, Agri. Development Office, Kebele Manager, Breeding Cooperative Facilitators, Youth & Food
Security Office, Agri. Research Centers
• Information sharing, discussions and group work
• Reasons for gendered participation status in breeding cooperatives
• Importance of gender relations in livestock husbandry and management practices
• Institutional and structural factors limiting women’s participation in cooperatives.
• Application of community conversations to enhance quality participation of women and men.
• Outcome:
• Formulation of realistic action plans that can be implemented with little/no external support to ensure quality
participation of women in breeding cooperatives
• Agreed on modalities of coaching and monitoring of the implementation and reporting of the planned activities.
Enhancing Participation of Women and Men in Breeding Cooperatives
through gender capacity development for Local Actors in Ethiopia
78. Women and Asset Ownership in Egypt: Continuities, Disruptions,
Contradictions• Context: MENA region has the lowest level of women’s land ownership in
the world
Key findings
• Both women and men considered land and houses to be the most economically and
socially important assets, but they differed significantly in what they considered to
be valuable assets for women.
• Differences in perceptions of ownership: Sole ownership and joint ownership are
legally defined (through names on a title). However, we found that people’s
perceptions of ownership may be legally or socially defined. Women tend to
identify land officially owned solely by themselves as belonging to both themselves
and their husbands, but men were less likely to identify wives as co-owners for land
to which they solely held title.
• Men were much more likely to identify male relatives (a brother, for example) as a
co-owner rather than a spouse. These male relatives were often legal co-inheritors
of the land they were farming.
• Women tended to control land jointly with their husbands and in some cases even
handed over control to their spouses over land that they owned solely. Men were
less likely to identify their wives as co-controllers of land to which they solely held
title. Men were again much more likely to identify a male relative as a co-controller
rather than a spouse.
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79. Promoting equality of opportunity
Fostering youth employment in rural Ethiopian through Sheep
Fattening – a viable solution to empower young people and
tap their potential.
Innovative ways of working
• Collective entrepreneurship via
formation of sheep fattening youth
groups and cooperatives.
• Incorporate Entrepreneurial Skills
Development training in the sheep
fattening programs, to promote
innovation in the SRVC as well as
sharing, cogeneration and
knowledge transfer for
entrepreneurship creation and
innovation.
• Use coordination committees to
improve vertical and lateral
engagements.
Outputs
CapDev
• Each youth group has undergone at least 9 training
sessions in the past 9 months on ration balancing and
formulation, entrepreneurship skills, fundamentals of
financial and marketing management.
• Continuity rate of sheep fattening stands at 94%
among members of the youth groups, Currently there
are 466 youth (283 male; 183 female) in the program,
with an average of 12 rams each, from an initial 2-3
rams one year ago.
• Female fatteners are facing challenges in continuation
compared to males. Key reason is inability to reinvest
into subsequent fattening cycles.
Micro-Finance Landscape Assessment
• Preliminary results from a landscape analysis, reveals
that an average of 72% of youth in the program are
averse to taking loans.
• This may consequently affect their growth potential
with time.
Ongoing Activities
• Capacity development of youth groups
• Strengthening Community of Practice
• Micro-Finance Landscape Assessment
• in Ethiopia
• Development of business cases for sheep
fattening
• Development of manuals on
Entrepreneurial Skills Development in
3 languages
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Capacity Development 2019: Achievements
Total of Beneficiaries: 1,425
Group courses: 647
Enrolled Degree Students: 12PhD, 7 MSc, 1 BSc
Internships: 31
International Conference: 727
Nationalities: 38
Gender: 44.5% Females and 55.5% Males
Editor's Notes
The intensive regeneration efforts continued during the season 2018-19, with a total of 30,490 accessions regenerated and characterized. In total, more than 104,000 unique accessions were regenerated since 2016 season representing almost 65% of the total holdings of ICARDA genebanks (Table 1). A total of 75,000 unique accessions were already processed to active and base collections and are ready for safety duplication between the two genebanks established in Lebanon and Morocco. A total of 43,000 accessions were already sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and around 26,000 accessions will be sent in October 2019.
Fat deposition and distribution is regarded as one of the adaptive traits in sheep to stressful (hot arid) environments.
Three types of sheep, fat-rump, fat-tail and thin-rail sheep are found in Ethiopia. They represent an excellent genetic resource to investigate the genetic mechanisms of body fat deposition and distribution.
Selection signature analysis was therefor performed using hapFLK approach involving three comparisons:
Fat-rump verses long thin tail sheep
Long fat-tail (western Ethiopia) verses long thin tail sheep
Long (southern Ethiopia) fat-tail verses long thin tail sheep
This is going a step beyond, and using GS instead of MAS to do the same thing. The advantage is that we would not need all the efforts of KASP validation. The phenotypic data collected on the Global Durum Panel would be enough to run training and prediction models. You can see on the right the first result from an actual yield trial conducted last year in Marchouch Morocco. All methodologies assessed (gene bank material, speed breeding, normal shuttle breeding, and GS) resulted in some entries being the top yielders. However, GS was the most successful overall. For GS, F4 lines (similar to the previous slide) obtained from 20 populations were selected on the basis of genomic models based on the association mapping data, and using only 100 KASP markers. These were then advanced to F5 in the off-season of Annoceur and planted as preliminary F6 yield trials in Marchouch. The fact that it worked means that we can now consider doing directly F4 corsses, without waiting 1 extra year for field confirmation.
In order to accelerate the genetic gain, chickpea and lentil were grown in a growth chamber and green house at high density of supplemental light (using far-red enriched LED and blue LED lights) under an extended photoperiod of 22 h light/25.5 °C and 2 h dark/15 °C.
The protocol was undertaken within the controlled growth house facilities at the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) in Egypt. Plants were grown in a growth room and glass houses at 25 ⁰C. Both locations were supplemented by cool far-red enriched LED and blue LED lights. Seeds lentil and chickpea were sown in plastic pots (0.5 L) filled with soil mix (1:1 peat moss and soil). This accelerated the growth with plants taking 23 and 32 days after sowing for the first flowers and 31 to 42 days for first pod. Pods at physiological maturity were harvested 51 to 65 days after sowing. The harvested plants were oven-dried (30-35°C for 2 days) and planted using the above-described protocol to obtain next generation seeds and thus speed up the generation turnover. This rapid generation cycling will allow 4-5 generations per year through single seed descent (SSD) instead of only one or two in conventional greenhouse-based methods (center level) will save the field cost, labor cost and furthermore, integrating speed breeding high-throughput genotyping and genomic selection, will certainly accelerate the chickpea and lentil improvement.
Thanks to advances in space technology “Several RS ETa data are made freely available”
Application of residue mulching at 4 ton/ha with zero tillage in chickpea-based cropping systems was found most effective for realizing higher productivity and profitability under rainfed agro-ecosystem of North Western India
Amongst the Post Graduated students newly enrolled between last BoT and today 2 are conducting a MSc and 15 a PhD. Amongst the training courses a total of 9 regional training courses were implemented between 01 May till the 15 October 2017.
Amongst the Post Graduated students newly enrolled between last BoT and today 2 are conducting a MSc and 15 a PhD. Amongst the training courses a total of 9 regional training courses were implemented between 01 May till the 15 October 2017.
The slide represents the number and value of partnerships by ICARDA thematic areas in 2019. The size of the bubbles is proportional to the average value of partner grants
The slide shows the partners involved th generation of knowledge products and the size of the bubbles are proportional to the average number of partners per knowledge product