Completed Projects
Improving agricultural resilience to salinity and climate change through development and promotion of pro-poor technologies and management strategies (RESADE)
Timeline: March 2019 - February 2023
Funding Agency: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
Developing a user-friendly application for smallholder farmers for detection of plant disorders
Timeline: December 2019 - December 2022
EXPO LIVE project Phase II: “From desert farm to fork: Value chain development for innovative halophyte-based food products”
Timeline: July 2019 - December 2021
Funding Agency: Expo 2020 Dubai’s Expo Live Innovation Impact Grant Program
Rehabilitation and Management of Salt-affected Soils to Improve Agricultural Productivity (RAMSAP)
Timeline: December 2015 - December 2020
Funding Agency: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Scaling up quinoa value chain to improve food and nutritional security in poor rural communities of Morocco
Timeline: November 2017 - November 2020
Funding Agency: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Scaling up small-scale irrigation technologies for improving food security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Timeline: August 2016 - July 2020
Food for the Future II - Building Sustainable Networks and Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential in Farming Communities living in Marginal Areas
Timeline: July 2019 - July 2020
Funding Agency: HSBC Bank Middle East Limited
Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture (AWLA)
Timeline: January 2019 - March 2020
Funding Agency: Islamic Development Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CGIAR Research Program on Wheat
Quinoa: identifying accessions with superior drought tolerance
Timeline: September 2019 - March 2020
Funding Agency: Arab-German Young Academy for Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)
Evaluating a Porous Alpha soil enhancer to save water and increase yield
Timeline: March 2019 - December 2019
Funding Agency: Tottori Resource Recycling Middle East LLC
Grant Award Competition for Joint Arab-US Early-career Women Research Teams
Timeline: March 2016 - December 2019
Benefits and Risks of Using Treated Municipal Wastewater for Agricultural Production
Timeline: January 2013 - January 2019