{"id":1872,"date":"2022-07-15T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annual-report.icarda.org\/2021\/?page_id=1872"},"modified":"2023-10-04T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:39:54","slug":"food-legumes-in-details","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annual-report.icarda.org\/2021\/food-legumes-in-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Legumes in Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Our elite food legume lines are available to National Agricultural Research System partners through\u00a0<\/strong>ICARDA\u2019s international nurseries<\/a>. ICARDA\u2019s food legumes team is also working alongside other CGIAR centers to develop the One CGIAR initiatives that seek to unify efforts in crop improvement globally and across CWANA.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p> ICARDA\u2019s food legumes projects receive funding from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the Government of Odisha, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the European Union, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, the Grains Research and Development Corporation, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Fund for International Development, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, among others.\u00a0<\/p> Significant\u202f 2021 \u202fdevelopments in our work on food legumes were:<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t ICARDA\u2019s Lentil Breeder,\u00a0Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal<\/a>, was elected as Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of International Food Legume Research Conference. The conference and its committee aim to build global communication linkages to promote research collaboration and the interchange of scientific and technical information covering all aspects of research and development of cool-season food legumes.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t In 2021, ICARDA\u2019s Legume Breeder, Dr. Fouad Maalouf<\/a>, was nominated as a Special Guest Editor for the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute\u2019s special issue of Plants\u2014an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal published semimonthly online\u2014on legume genomics and breeding<\/a>. The same year, Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal<\/a> and Dr. Michael Baum<\/a> were Special Guest Editors for a special issue of Frontiers in Plant Sciences titled \u201cAccelerating Genetic Gains in Pulses\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t