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A Global Program to Protect Palms, Livelihoods, and Ecosystems: The proposed three-year program is an ambitious, international, and multi-institutional program (Consortium for Red Palm Weevil Control (C4RPWC) Program) designed to combat the Red Palm Weevil (RPW), a devastating pest that threatens palm cultivation globally. Led by ICARDA, the program aims to develop, test, adapt, and pilot innovative, sustainable science-based and environmentally friendly solutions to manage and contain RPW infestations. With the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a focal point, the program will develop and establish scalable strategies that can extend to other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) affected by this invasive pest. This initiative represents a turning point in global pest management efforts, ensuring that the cutting-edge science translates into tangible impact on farmer’s livelihoods and environmental conservation.

The project aims to conduct two main activities: Monitoring and maintenance at the existing restoration sites – rangeland ecosystem and monitoring and maintenance at the existing restoration sites – rainfed ecosystem.

The project focuses on improving agricultural ecosystems and policies through collaborations with land managers, governments, researchers, the private sector and financial institutions, boosting economic growth and benefiting human health.

An integrated Geoinformatics and data management for agroecosystem research, development and outreach.

“The Project for Enhancement of Agricultural Productivity” has been launched to contribute to reducing rural poverty and building resilience of vulnerable farming families in the Upper Egypt and Nile Delta Regions of Egypt through improving the utilization of water for agriculture as well as increasing agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers, raising incomes and creating economic opportunities for poor rural households in three selected governorates; Menia, Qena and Kafr ElShiekh.

The proposed study will seek to address the following mutually supportive set of specific questions, which will be discussed with the relevant national government organizations and policy makers during the launch of the study for ground-validation and fine-tuning, such as the extent and costs of land degradation in Central Asia and land degradation hotspots, as well as total financing needs and current funding gaps for restoring degraded lands in Central Asia, including under the national commitments for land restoration in LDN, NDC, NBSAP/GBF and Bonn Challenge action agendas. The project aims to identify degraded locations provide the highest returns for land restoration investments. The projects also aims to evaluate how the costs and benefits from the current segmented approach to land restoration compare with the costs and benefits of nationally coordinated planning and implementation.

The project aims to identify the contextual features that will affect the viability of interventions with potential to increase climate-resilience of smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the target areas (Northern Governorate of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) with a wider view to mitigating the impacts if climate change and variability and contributing to the green growth and food security in Jordan.

In 2021, Appropriate Agriculture International Co. Ltd (AAI) approached ICARDA to organize a third country visit for their counterpart institutes in Balochistan region, Pakistan, under the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Technical Cooperation Project for Capacity Development of Agricultural Extension Services in Balochistan (CADAEX-BAL PROJECT).

Starting in early 2022, ICARDA and AAI discussed the development of a course program and AAI decided to dispatch seven participants for the visit with a special focus on water saving technology, water saving crops, olive production, marketing and processing, and cooperation between research and extension.