Titled “Improving Agricultural Resilience to Salinity through Development and Promotion of Pro-poor Technologies” (or RESADE), the four-year project is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA).
The project began with an inception meeting for project partners at ICBA’s headquarters in Dubai on 24-25 April 2019. Over 30 participants, including directors and technical staff of the national agricultural research centers from the partner countries, attended the inception meeting.
ICBA launches major project to boost farmers’ incomes in seven sub-Saharan African countries
29 April 2019
The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) has launched a major project to improve food security and incomes of smallholder farmers, particularly women, in salt-affected areas of seven sub-Saharan African countries.
Value chains for super crops key to fighting poverty, hunger in IsDB member countries
6 April 2019
Creating value chains for resilient, underutilized crops like quinoa, sorghum and Salicornia should form the cornerstone of food security and poverty reduction strategies in the face of climate change and other threats to agricultural production and rural livelihoods in member countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).
