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The project is the fifth phase of a series located in the Arabian Peninsula for the enhancement of agricultural production systems and the conservation of natural resources. This phase focuses on diffusion of technologies packages developed to reduce climate change effects on the environment and agricultural production to enhance the livelihoods of local communities.

This project is collaborating with the WWCS project of Caritas in Tajikistan - From reactive response to informed management: Leveraging weather, water and climate services for sustainable rural livelihoods and well-being in Tajikistan - to provide scientific backstopping. The support will focus on the development of methodologies and protocols for tracking outcomes envisioned within the WWCS initiative. The thematic focus and multi-stakeholder approach of the project embody a level of complexity that necessitates the engagement of novel scientific, government and business partners.

The project allows the continuation of restoration activities undertaken in Badia, Jordan at the Al Majidyya watershed, and to out-scale rehabilitation methods to agro-sylvo-pastoral areas at the new Royal Botanic Garden (RBG) site.

يتم تمويل مشروع "تطوير أنظمة إنتاج نخيل التمر المستدامة في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي" من قبل أمانة مجلس التعاون الخليجي ويهدف إلى خلق المعرفة والممارسات الجديدة لتحسين أنظمة إنتاج النخيل في منطقة الخليج

The Development of Sustainable Date Palm Production Systems in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries project is funded by the Gulf Cooperation Council Secretariat (GCC) and aims to produce new knowledge and practices to improve date palm production systems in the Gulf region.

Water scarcity in agriculture is a key issue for MENA countries and is associated with difficulties in pumping energy availability. For this reason, the project aimed to encourage the adoption of ultra-low energy (ULE) drip irrigation systems with a conversion of hundreds of hectares from surface to drip irrigation across different regions.

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.