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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

Ultra-Low Energy Drip Irrigation for MENA Countries

Start date
20 Sep 2016
End date
28 Sep 2024

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.

Project Manager
Vinay Nangia
Email
v.nangia@cgiar.org
countries
Morocco

Projects & Activities

Conduct pre-feasibility assessment supporting WFP Jordan's concept note application to Green Climate Fund

Start date
08 Jun 2023
End date
31 Dec 2023
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.
Project Manager
Boubaker Dhehibi
Email
b.dhehibi@cgiar.org
countries
Jordan

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

WOCAT 2020+

Start date
01 Jan 2022
End date
31 Dec 2023

The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) is a global Network sharing the same aim to document, share, and apply sustainable land management (SLM) knowledge. A pioneer in transformative action for SLM, the Network establishes an innovative space for sharing and scaling good practices to address land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This facilitates local, national, regional and global knowledge sharing and analysis of which good practices work where, how and why, and what are their costs and benefits

For more information please visit full project website

Project Manager
Enrico Bonaiuti
Email
e.bonaiuti@cgiar.org

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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