The CGIAR center for farming in the world's dry areas, founded in 1977 at Tel Hadya outside Aleppo, Syria, and relocated to Beirut in 2012 when the Syrian civil war made Aleppo untenable. It works on crop varieties, water harvesting, conservation agriculture and integrated crop and livestock systems for the resource-poor of the dry belt. Its Aleppo genebank is the reason the Svalbard vault has been drawn on: ICARDA made the first withdrawal in the vault's history to rebuild its collection abroad. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year HeadquartersBeirut, Lebanon; originally Tel Hadya, Aleppo, Syria 1 Relocated from Aleppo to Beirut in 2012 during the Syrian civil war. Classification
KindInternational Agricultural Research Center 1 Connections
Associated With
Barley, Crops Barley is one of ICARDA's founding dryland mandate crops.
Lentil, Crops Lentil is one of ICARDA's founding dryland mandate crops.
Sources
1. ICARDA (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section; relocation history
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), a member of CGIAR, supported by the CGIAR Fund, is a non-profit agricultural research institute that aims to improve the livelihoods of the resource-poor across the world's dry areas.
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The CGIAR center for farming in the world's dry areas, founded in 1977 at Tel Hadya outside Aleppo, Syria, and relocated to Beirut in 2012 when the Syrian civil war made Aleppo untenable.
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