In 2021, ICARDA staff, projects, partners, and students won several prestigious awards for their research and fieldwork. Here is a list of our 2021 highlights:
Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, a former Director-General of ICARDA, was recognized by the “Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture” for his “lifetime contributions in national, regional and international agricultural research that changed the lives of poor farmers of West Asia, North Africa (CWANA) and Central Asia and Caucasus (CAC) countries.”
Dr. Reena Mehra, National Associate Scientist (Lentil Breeding) at ICARDA’s Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP), Amlaha, India, won the Research Wizard Young Scientist Award
ICARDA’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team (MEL) and Social, Economy and Policies Team received an award by The Group on Earth Observation Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO-LDN) Initiative, overseen by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), for innovation in halting land degradation through a tool that helps better inform land planning and the undertaking of restoration activities.
Researcher Médiha Khamassi Khbou, studying her Ph.D. in collaboration with ICARDA and lecturer at the Ecole Nationale de Médecine Vétérinaire in Tunisia, received the Best Poster Presentation award during the latest 14th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.
TAAT Wheat Compact, implemented by ICARDA continued scaling climate smart heat-tolerant wheat varieties throughout 2021. In 2021, a short documentary on TAAT has won the 2021 Stevie International Business Awards among which the work on wheat is reflected. The video won the “Best Video – Documentary” category out of over 3,700 nominations from 65 countries for the 2021 edition
