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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tucked against the mountains that form the border between Lebanon and Syria, a new facility is being prepared to house and replace the agricultural inheritance of the region after fighting left major ...

Ali Shehadeh, a seed hunter, opened the folders with the greatest of care. Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, ...

A team of scientists on the front lines of climate change is helping nature heal itself. But as wars rage around them, it's making their efforts to feed an increasingly hungry globe that much harder.

TERBOL, Lebanon — Inside a large freezer room at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, tens of thousands of seeds are stored at a constant temperature of minus-4 degrees ...

New Delhi, [India], Feb. 15 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the following: (1) The Establishment of Food Legumes Research Platform (FLRP) at Amlaha, ...

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, ...

Humanity has had to cash in on its insurance policy earlier than expected. Deep in the side of a mountain in the Arctic archipelago is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Known as the “Doomsday Vault,” ...