The rehabilitation of the gene bank operated by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) ...

A regional workshop on 'Molecular Techniques for Date Palm Propagation, Crop Management on the Farm, and Post-Harvest Treatments' began Sunday in Doha. The five-day event is organised by the ...

For more than four years, the headquarters of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in the Syrian town of Tal Hadya has been occupied by the anti-Assad groups Al ...

Aleppo, Syria, has as good a claim as any to the title of “world’s oldest city.” It is certainly among the longest to be continuously inhabited. There are hints that nomads camped out just north of ...

Mr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General of ICARDA, met with His Excellency Mr. IWAI Fumio, the Japanese Ambassador to Egypt, on 27 January 2025, in Cairo, to commemorate ICARDA’s recent partnership with ...

There were days, decades ago, when world leaders were concerned with the vitality of our planet's crops. These concerns, born out of the realization of mass extinction (both human and non) led to a ...

The global food system has become a little more secure today, with a new deposit of seeds from the Middle East into the Global Seed Vault, deep inside the Arctic circle. Nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, ...

To mark this occasion, we’ve launched an interactive anniversary webpage. It traces our journey from 1975 to today, highlighting discoveries, detours, major wins, and innovations that made an outsized ...

Syria has made a withdrawal from the 'Doomsday Vault' global seed bank to replenish its local supplies. In the first withdrawal from the Arctic bank, thousands of seeds have been safely delivered by ...