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Projects & Activities

Scientific Backstopping related to the Weather, Water and Climate Services (WWCS) initiative for Increasing Resilience and Well-being of Rural Communities in Tajikistan

Start date
01 Jan 2021
End date
31 May 2025

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.

Project Manager
Akmal Akramkhanov
Email
a.akramkhanov@cgiar.org
countries
Tajikistan

Projects & Activities

Watershed Restoration in Badia Areas of Jordan

Start date
01 Jun 2019
End date
31 Dec 2024

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.

Project Manager
Muhi El-Dine Hilali
Email
m.hilali@cgiar.org
countries
Jordan

Projects & Activities

تطوير نظم انتاج مستدامة لنخيل التمر في دول الخليج العربي Development of Sustainable Systems for Date Palm in the Countries of the GCC 2018-2022;

Start date
01 May 2018
End date
31 Dec 2023

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.

Project Manager
Abdoul Aziz Niane
Email
a.niane@cgiar.org
countries
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Projects & Activities

Moroccan Collaborative Grants Program (MCGP)

Start date
20 Oct 2004
End date
31 Dec 2023

In 2005, a four-year project titled Moroccan Collaborative Grants Program (MCGP) between ICARDA and the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)-Morocco was established to provide the support needed to develop synergies between INRA and ICARDA scientists. The aim was to open avenues for attracting external assistance and funds. Under this initiative, five MCGP projects have been developed to address genetic resources conservation, conservation agriculture, and biotechnology backstopping.

Project Manager
Ahmed Amri
Email
a.amri@cgiar.org
countries
Morocco

Projects & Activities

Training Collaboration Agreement - under the project for capacity development of agricultural extension services in Balochistan

Start date
03 Sep 2022
End date
09 Sep 2022

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.

Project Manager
Masafumi Tamura
Email
m.tamura@cgiar.org
countries
Pakistan

Projects & Activities

AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping (AID-CSB) Environmental Health for Human Rights

Start date
02 Feb 2022
End date
31 Dec 2022
AID-CSB Environmental Health for Human Rights provides a unique opportunity to (1) improve digital literacy and inclusion, (2) increase awareness and generate data on the linkages between bee and environmental health, and beekeeper activities, and (3) facilitate adoption of improved hive management practices among a wider group of mostly women beekeepers in light of more frequent adverse climatic events.
Project Manager
Enrico Bonaiuti
Email
e.bonaiuti@cgiar.org
countries
Ethiopia, Uzbekistan

Projects & Activities

Capacity Development of Iraqi Agricultural Engineers and Farmers with Special Focus on Seed Production and Management Under Project OSRO/IRQ/902/EC

Start date
16 Jan 2022
End date
31 Mar 2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is supporting the agricultural sector in rural and peri-urban areas in the Ninevah Governorate of Iraq by supporting sustainable food and agricultural livelihood security. This project is a partnership between FAO and ICARDA to provide training activities to improve the knowledge and skills of agricultural specialists for effective and efficient management of seed production, seed processing and storage, seed quality assurance and certification, as well as greenhouse vegetable production technologies.

Project Manager
Charles Kleinermann
Email
c.kleinermann@cgiar.org
countries
Iraq

Projects & Activities

AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Women Advisory & Extension (AID-CSB Advisory & Extension)

Start date
01 Dec 2021
End date
30 Apr 2022
AID-CSB Advisory & Extension will adapt a hive management app (The Beekeeper’s Companion) for Lebanon with a focus on women beekeepers and combine it with a web app for extension workers to improve advisory services and monitoring of bee health.
Project Manager
Enrico Bonaiuti
Email
e.bonaiuti@cgiar.org
countries
Lebanon

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