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The study was part of the Rehabilitation and Management of Salt-affected Soils to Improve Agricultural Productivity (RAMSAP) project. Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the five-year project (2015-2019) is aimed at increasing agricultural productivity, food security and income for smallholder farmers, agro-pastoral/pastoral communities in Ethiopia and South Sudan.

25 February 2019

New study names salinity, water scarcity among top risks to agriculture in South Sudan

During the event, several farmers received awards for their previous pioneering work with ICBA to take the research results to the field.

20 February 2019

ICBA hosts big agri-tech showcase for UAE farmers, agri-businesses

To mark 20 years of service to and collaboration with farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in the UAE, the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) will host a big open day for UAE farmers and agri-businesses at its headquarters in Dubai on 20 February 2019.

14 February 2019

ICBA to host open day for UAE farmers, agri-businesses

Dr. Ismahane Elouafi – ranked by Muslim Science as among the 20 Most Influential Women in Science in the Islamic World – has been welcomed as a non-executive director on the CABI Board.

08 February 2019

Dr. Ismahane Elouafi joins CABI Board

Placing his grandson on his shoulder, Adylbek leads us to the field. In the beginning of August, he planted pearl millet and sorghum to use for green mass in winter. His grandson, three-year-old Magjan named after a famous Kazakh poet, insists on him going to other fields too so that we take photos of him with watermelon. Adylbek follows the toddler’s request. “His parents have just departed for Kazakhstan, that’s why the child is distressed,” he justifies.

27 December 2018

Farming in Uzbek desert

With a changing climate, the introduction of crops resistant to drought and salinization has become a priority in the country to ensure food security and boost agricultural productivity.

26 December 2018

Tajik farmers look at pearl millet for food, forage production

Mr. Odeh Al Turman, who hails from Al Khalidiyeh, 20 km from the center of Mafraq Governorate to the east of Jordan, used to stand up at courts but two years ago he chose to toil on soil.

25 December 2018

Farmers in Jordan catch up with biosaline agriculture

Under this agreement, ICBA and ADFSC will, among other things, strengthen cooperation to develop projects aimed at improving the productivity of date palm trees, vegetables and fodder crops that are being grown in highly saline soils, and study water requirements of date palm, fodders and other crops.

20 December 2018

ICBA, Abu Dhabi farming authority ink deal to help local farmers

The improved lines were first tested in different agroecological zones from Tashkent Region and the Syrdarya River basin to sandy soils of the Kyzylkum desert. A special focus was made on the introduction of quinoa in marginal lands of the Aral Sea area, a region with low-yielding and extremely saline soils.

15 December 2018

Uzbek scientists eye up quinoa for Aral Sea region

Like many children, Kutlimurat grew up with love for animals. When he was young, he had his own small zoo with a rooster, pigeons and rabbits. But his strict father would not let him keep them. One day, after returning from a summer camp, he found the rooster missing. “I could not hold my tears back when I saw it had been cooked for dinner,” he recalls.

11 December 2018

Agribusiness in northwestern Uzbekistan bets on new crops to cope with salinity

Thirty-year-old Mohammad Al Fayaz knows first-hand what water scarcity is. His village of Umm Rumaneh, where he returned upon graduation with a law degree to help his father and brother with farming, is the only village in Al Jizah District, south of Amman, where no underground water has been found.

10 December 2018

Water scarcity prompts Jordanian farmers to use treated wastewater to grow forage crops

He returned to pursue a project started by his father more than 18 years ago. The Bedouin resettlement project aimed to encourage local people to work in agriculture.

10 December 2018

How biosaline agriculture is helping Bedouins settle down in Jordan

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