In 1930, French agricultural scientist Depois noted the challenges of agricultural research in rainfed North Africa due to climatic variability, a sentiment reinforced by Holme’s 1961 analysis of Tunisian cereal yields. ICARDA, acknowledging these...
ICARDA, established on January 1, 1977, focuses on enhancing food quality and availability in the West Asia-North Africa region, which has a population of 300 million. The Center aims to improve rainfed agricultural systems in an area with annual...
ICARDA's mandate commits the Center to a multi-disciplinary systems research approach with the object of developing improved farming systems to make more effective use of the limited rainfall available for
crop production, and to offer improved ways...
This publication highlights the key research findings of ICARDA for the year 1981, which also witnessed several significant changes in personnel and the organization's structure. On June 30, Dr. Harry S. Darling retired as the first Director General...
This report provides a summary of ICARDA's achievements for the year ending June 30, 1979, presented in non-technical language. It outlines how the planned activities were implemented and reviews the research results obtained up to this point. Due to...
