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Welcoming participants, Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Director General of ICBA, said: “Neglected and underutilized crops like millets can become more than just a healthy food in local diets and serve as a powerful resource in the climate change adaption toolkit. Through its research, ICBA strives to promote climate-resilient crops to enhance and sustain agri-food systems in marginal environments.”

21 March 2023

ICBA hosts open day to raise awareness, showcase research on millets

AWLA aims to help early- and mid-career professionals in agriculture to secure leadership roles by encouraging gender-responsive working cultures and creating platforms to showcase their intellect, capability, and contribution.

08 March 2023

Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture (AWLA) fellowship program opens call for applications

The framework allows analysts to derive key indicators that can contribute to food security and nutrition.

27 February 2023

Scientists create new framework for food security analysis in UAE

Since 2012, ICBA and its partners have been investigating the potential for growing Salicornia under the hot, dry, and saline conditions of marginal environments.

20 February 2023

Salicornia research at ICBA reaches important milestones

A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Dr. Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Chief Scientist at ICBA, and Mr. David Rosenberg, Co-Founder and CEO of AeroFarms, during the AeroFarms 2nd Annual AgTech Innovation Summit in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, in February 2023.

16 February 2023

ICBA, AeroFarms join forces for controlled-environment agriculture research

Over 200 course completions were registered by learners from 38 countries, including Australia, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia, and the UAE.

31 December 2022

ICBA’s e-learning courses benefit learners from 38 countries in 2022

Under a project financed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) titled “Cross-regional Partnerships for Improving Food and Nutritional Security in Marginal Environments of Central Asia”, ICBA and partners assessed ways of integrating quinoa into local farming and food production systems in five Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan.

30 December 2022

Quinoa genotype from ICBA gets go-ahead for cultivation in Tajikistan

Polyamines play a role in different physiological processes: a) growth and development; b) abiotic stress response; c) defense response; and d) aging in plants. (Source: Tyagi et al. 2022)

27 December 2022

New study sheds more light on plant growth-regulating compounds

The framework will help to ensure that a comprehensive set of climatic conditions informs adaptation planning and risk management and may also help prioritize improvements in modeling sectoral dynamics that depend on climatic conditions.

27 December 2022

Climate scientists create new framework for climate risk assessment

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the Abu Dhabi City Municipality have completed the first phase of a project to create a new sustainable garden for halophytic, or salt-loving, and salt-tolerant plants at Al Shahama, the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

26 December 2022

ICBA, Abu Dhabi City Municipality complete first phase of sustainable garden for halophytic plants in Abu Dhabi

The center will be nominating individuals, communities, businesses and organizations whose solutions make the most progress towards achieving the five Earthshots – simple but ambitious goals which if achieved by 2030 will improve life for all, for generations to come.

19 December 2022

ICBA invites submissions for Earthshot Prize

Called Dr. Nabat, the application is a result of collaboration between ICBA and the University of Barcelona, Spain, under a project titled “Developing a user-friendly mobile application for smallholder farmers to detect plant disorders”.

12 December 2022

ICBA launches new AI-powered mobile app for crop disorder detection