ICARDA and CIMMYT: harnessing the power of partnership in wheat improvement
In the dry agroecologies of the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, especially in the cold highland areas, rural farming communities depend on wheat for food and income. These communities face formidable obstacles. The wheat crop is vulnerable to diseases and pests, and farmers are forced to cope with the challenges of irregular and variable rainfall, a short growing season, and few prospects for agricultural diversification. As a result, poverty and hunger prevail in these areas. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) share a commitment to work together to help these communities through wheat improvement research. The approach is to complement the efforts of national agricultural research systems (NARS) across CWANA with the best of ICARDA's regional and CIMMYT's global wheat research programs. This report presents selected achievements in CWANA of our two centers, the Government of Turkey (which graciously hosts the Turkey/CIMMYT/ICARDA program for winter wheat), and our many other partners. Our work in CWANA goes beyond exchanging seed and information to addressing major regional issues such as the precarious livelihoods of winter wheat producers and options for improvement; the urgent need to prevent disease epidemics in an environmentally responsible way; the complex soil health problems that reduce wheat yields; and the nonchemical control of Sunn pest, an insect that drains the nutritional and economic value out of wheat. The research described here would not have been possible without the combined skills and resources of a large number of our partner organizations.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-39812022-11-07T18:27:36Z ICARDA and CIMMYT: harnessing the power of partnership in wheat improvement AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY WHEAT ARID AREAS DISEASE RESISTANCE PEST RESISTANCE GENETIC IMPROVEMENT PLANT BREEDING DROUGHT TOLERANCE SMALLHOLDERS FOOD SECURITY In the dry agroecologies of the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, especially in the cold highland areas, rural farming communities depend on wheat for food and income. These communities face formidable obstacles. The wheat crop is vulnerable to diseases and pests, and farmers are forced to cope with the challenges of irregular and variable rainfall, a short growing season, and few prospects for agricultural diversification. As a result, poverty and hunger prevail in these areas. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) share a commitment to work together to help these communities through wheat improvement research. The approach is to complement the efforts of national agricultural research systems (NARS) across CWANA with the best of ICARDA's regional and CIMMYT's global wheat research programs. This report presents selected achievements in CWANA of our two centers, the Government of Turkey (which graciously hosts the Turkey/CIMMYT/ICARDA program for winter wheat), and our many other partners. Our work in CWANA goes beyond exchanging seed and information to addressing major regional issues such as the precarious livelihoods of winter wheat producers and options for improvement; the urgent need to prevent disease epidemics in an environmentally responsible way; the complex soil health problems that reduce wheat yields; and the nonchemical control of Sunn pest, an insect that drains the nutritional and economic value out of wheat. The research described here would not have been possible without the combined skills and resources of a large number of our partner organizations. 8 pages 2014-03-13T01:09:53Z 2014-03-13T01:09:53Z 2004 Newsletter / Bulletin http://hdl.handle.net/10883/3981 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF [Lebanon] ICARDA CIMMYT |
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In the dry agroecologies of the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, especially in the cold highland areas, rural farming communities depend on wheat for food and income. These communities face formidable obstacles. The wheat crop is vulnerable to diseases and pests, and farmers are forced to cope with the challenges of irregular and variable rainfall, a short growing season, and few prospects for agricultural diversification. As a result, poverty and hunger prevail in these areas. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) share a commitment to work together to help these communities through wheat improvement research. The approach is to complement the efforts of national agricultural research systems (NARS) across CWANA with the best of ICARDA's regional and CIMMYT's global wheat research programs. This report presents selected achievements in CWANA of our two centers, the Government of Turkey (which graciously hosts the Turkey/CIMMYT/ICARDA program for winter wheat), and our many other partners. Our work in CWANA goes beyond exchanging seed and information to addressing major regional issues such as the precarious livelihoods of winter wheat producers and options for improvement; the urgent need to prevent disease epidemics in an environmentally responsible way; the complex soil health problems that reduce wheat yields; and the nonchemical control of Sunn pest, an insect that drains the nutritional and economic value out of wheat. The research described here would not have been possible without the combined skills and resources of a large number of our partner organizations. |
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