International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)

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.”

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

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

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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.

ICBA, AeroFarms join forces for controlled-environment agriculture research

Research Themes

Management of natural resources in marginal environments

increase agricultural productivity and thus improve food, nutrition and water security, and create jobs and livelihoods for communities living in these environments

Climate change modeling and adaptation

enhance livelihoods, adaptive capacities and incomes of agricultural communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change

Crop improvement and sustainable production

increase adaptive capacities, livelihoods and food security of smallholder farmers and rural communities

Integrated agri-aquaculture systems

help reduce environmental footprint, increase incomes of farming communities and improve their adaptive capacities to climate change

Call for testing and demonstration of agricultural inputs and technologies suitable for use in marginal environments at ICBA research station

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) invites companies, entrepreneurs or traders supplying or producing agricultural technologies for marginal environments to register their products in the platform for testing and demonstration at the ICBA research station.

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