ICARDA & CGIAR: Transforming Global Food Security
F2R-CWANA
From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia, and North Africa
As the only CGIAR Center headquartered in the drylands, we launched the F2R-CWANA initiative in 2022 across the region to address agriculture in water-scarce, biodiversity-depleted settings. F2R-CWANA will enhance agrifood systems in fragile regions to better withstand climate change, economic shocks, and political instability.
In 2022, we conducted stakeholder consultations to establish F2R roadmaps in Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, and Syria. Ongoing partner consultation meetings will update shared knowledge, identify research gaps, prioritize the scaling-ready technology, and explore opportunities for resilience.
Excellence in Agronomy
The Excellence in Agronomy Initiative improves smallholder farming households by increasing agronomic gain per input unit, aiming to achieve measurable impacts on food and nutrition security, income, resource use, soil health, climate resilience, and climate change mitigation in prioritized farming systems by 2030. The Initiative prioritizes support for marginalized groups, and promoting inclusion for farmers, including women and youth. ICARDA launched the dryland EiA Initiative in 2022, and ICARDA’s SWA team later brought together partners and researchers to report, reflect, and synthesize efforts to modernize agronomy research. In 2022, our Soil, Water, and Agronomy Team (SWA) led the dryland launches of the Excellence in Agronomy Initiative.
Genebanks
The Genebanks Initiative is focused on conserving agrobiodiversity in genebanks and making it readily available to use as part of a global effort to reduce the loss of critical genetic variation that can help us adapt our food systems to today’s challenges and to support the safe restoration and diversification of agroecosystems. In 2022, ICARDA contributed to the dryland launches of the CGIAR Genebank Initiative.
ICARDA - CGIAR Genebanks
ICARDA in CGIAR Research Initiatives
