ICBA Blogs

As part of its mission to advance sustainable agriculture in arid and saline environments, the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), in collaboration with Silal, organized a field visit to a quinoa demonstration site in Al Ain.

30 April 2025

ICBA Showcases Milestone in Quinoa Harvest as Part of UAE Value Chain Initiative in partnership with SILAL

The changes seen in a region of Italy in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) between 2019 and 2020 in the same time period. NDVI is an index used to estimate the health and productivity of vegetation. The red shows areas where the vegetative productivity has decreased; blue areas where vegetative productivity has increased, and the maroon where it is roughly the same. The changes show the differences in the farmed areas between the two years.

18 June 2020

How satellites help keep agricultural research going during Covid-19 pandemic

We must harness the huge potential of the younger generation and engage them more actively in our efforts to achieve the SDGs. But to realize their full potential, young people need to be provided with necessary skills and opportunities.

28 May 2020

How ICBA empowers youth to contribute to global food security

The livelihoods of hundreds of millions of vulnerable people from day laborers and migrant workers to smallholder and subsistence farmers are at risk.

11 May 2020

To fight Covid-19, nations should come together

The UAE implements a range of measures, policies and strategies to ensure uninterrupted food supplies from abroad and scale up agricultural production at home.

31 March 2020

Covid-19 bears out UAE’s food security strategy