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Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) and Abu Dhabi Farmers Services Centre (ADFSC) as beneficiary partners in collaboration with ICARDA are working on Date Palm Integrated Pest Management and Agricultural Extension and Technology Transfer Systems in Abu Dhabi. Project components include Research for development activities on date palm IPM, enhancement of technology transfer and agricultural extension systems, capacity building, biological control in greenhouses and socio-economic analysis.

With the overall goal of transforming national and regional land use, the ELD project in Central Asia will provide sound knowledge and information about the economics of land degradation and suststainable land management practices for public and private decision-makers. It aims to value current land use strategies and economically feasable alternatives to promote sustainable land management, using the financial support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany.

The project contributes to improving food security and agricultural sector growth in the Arab countries extending the results of phase I (2011-2014) to 8 countries: Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, Palestinian Territory, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia.

This project is treating the Euphrates and Tigris rivers which is a complex river system shared between multiple countries. Its objectives are the mutual understanding and reduced information asymmetries by the different countries regarding technical aspects of water use, services and impacts in the Euphrates and Tigris region and eventually reduced imbalance between the technical capacities of these countries.

The major focus of the project is to scale out proven improved chickpea varieties and integrated crop management practices which will result in increased production and productivity of chickpea in wheat-based cropping systems. The aim is to ensure food and nutritional security and increased market opportunities for chickpea producers. The project will build on the technology and knowledge that are already available and tap into NARS and ICARDA’s strong network of partners in the country.

ICARDA is implementing this USAID funded project in partnerships with Ethiopian NARS. Its major focus is to scale out proven improved malt barley and faba bean varieties and integrated crop management practices which will result in increased production and productivity in both rainfed and irrigated production systems. In this process, it will popularize improved malt barley and faba bean varieties and associated agronomic practices coupled with accelerated seed multiplication.

Its a two year project funded by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) aiming at sustainable development of lowland pastures in Tunisia, Jordan, and Yemen was initiated in September 2014. Its overall goal is to improve the livelihood of the agro-pastoral communities through sustainable use of integrated conservation agriculture technologies and alley cropping systems that enhance the productivity of lowlands in the arid and semi-arid rangelands.

The project will construct over 100 km of main canal and around 200 km of distributary and minor canals and appurtenant structures. The main canal will have a design discharge of about 38 cubic meters per second (cms) at Rasul Barrage. Provision for the canal Headworks already exists at existing Rasul Barrage on River Jhelum. However, its design and costing will be required. The project will provide irrigation supplies to about 79,950 ha in Pind Daden Khan and Khushab districts out of which around 15,000 ha will require lift irrigation from the River Jhelum with possibility of using solar energy pumps. The non-perennial irrigation system - water supply for only Kharif season crops from April to September, will directly benefit to about 500,000 rural population. The project will also include summer crop (Rabi crop) using groundwater.