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International Cooperation I CARDA cooperates internationally with NARS, and advanced research institutions to pursue its research and training agenda. Activities that promote partnerships with NARS within ICARDA’s mandated region, including networks (see Appendix 6) and capacity building are outlined below. Collaborative projects with advanced research institutes and regional and international organizations are listed in Appendix 5, and the results of joint research with them, as well as between ICARDA and its NARS partners, are presented in the research section of this Annual Report. ICARDA’s research activities at its headquarters and collaborative projects with the NARS of CWANA cover the entire research spectrum, from basic and strategic research to applied and adaptive research and, finally, to technology transfer. ICARDA promotes its partnership with NARS through seven Regional Programs across the geographic subregions in CWANA that share similar agroecologies: North Africa, Nile Valley and Red Sea, West Asia, Arabian Peninsula, Highlands, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Latin America. North Africa Regional Program The North Africa Regional Program (NARP) coordinates activities in Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, and is administered through ICARDA’s Regional Office in Tunisia. It aims at implementing ICARDA’s strategy in the region through collaborative activities with NARS. The objective of the program is to contribute to poverty alleviation, natural resources conservation, enhancing productivity of crops and livestock, human resources capacity building, and networking in the region. A number of regional collaborative projects continued to be implemented in 2004, including “Sustainable Management of the Agro-Pastoral Resource Base in the Maghreb” phase II (SDC Maghreb), funded by SDC and implemented in Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia; “Les obstacles aux transferts technologiques dans les petites et moyennes exploitations agricoles des zones arides et semi arides du Maghreb” (FEMISE II) implemented in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia; “Functional Genomics of Drought Tolerance in Chickpea in Tunisia,” funded by BMZ; the “Regional Program to Foster Wider Adoption of Low-Cost Durum Technologies” (IRDEN), funded by IFAD and implemented in Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey; “SDC Mountains, Maghreb” project; “Communitybased Optimization of the Management of Scarce Water Resources in Agriculture in WANA;” ”Assessing Potential of Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation in WANA;” “Systemwide Program on Impact Assessment of Natural Resources;” and “Livestock Health and Market Opportunities.” Five bilateral projects funded by USDA in Tunisia continued to be ICARDA Annual Report 2004 69
ICARDA Annual Report 2004 70 The IRDEN seed component workshop participants at a seed production and demonstration site in Tunisia on 10-12 May 2004. implemented, with ICARDA providing backstopping. These are “Medicinal Plants in Tunisia,” implemented by IRA Medenine; “Small Ruminants,” with IRESA (INAT-INRAT) and ILRI; GIS for Watershed Management in the Arid Regions of Tunisia;” “Oats and Vetch;” and “Biotechnology in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.” Another project “Biological Control of Weeds” is managed by ICARDA. Through these projects ICARDA enhanced its partnership with Tunisian research and teaching institutions (IRESA, INRAT, INAT, IRA Medenine) and USDA and US universities (University of Minnesota, Purdue State University, Fort Valley State University of Georgia, and University of Mississippi). In Mauritania, the “Rapid Impact Program on Research and Extension,” funded by CIDA, entered its second year. Activities during the year included implementation of a rural rapid appraisal in Brakna Province; introduction of spineless cactus at two research stations; and training of technicians from research institutions and development projects on cactus plantation, management and use in animal feeding. In addition, a new project on livestock and rangeland—“Project Gestion des Parcours et Developpement d l’Elevage (PADEL),” funded by the African Development Bank, started in December. ICARDA is associated as a partner in this project to provide backstopping in participatory and community approaches, water harvesting, animal feed resources and alternatives, and rangeland management and improvement. In Morocco, INRA and ICARDA started a competitive grant initiative called the “Morocco Collaborative Grants Program (MCGP).” During the year, 14 project proposals were developed and submitted for funding under the program. As a result, five new projects in the areas of barley improvement, durum wheat improvement, genetic resources, integrated pest management (IPM) in cereals-legumes cropping systems, integrated natural resource management, and conservation agriculture were approved for funding. These projects will run for four years starting in the 2004/05 cropping season. In addition, five bilateral projects, which started in 2003 and were jointly implemented by INRA and ICARDA, yielded encouraging results. The projects are in biotechnology, crop improvement, genetic resources, IPM, and agroecological characterization and GIS. Technical assistance Within the framework of the IFADfunded “Accelerated Project Performance in North Africa,” ICARDA provided technical support to the following projects: (i) “Integrated Agricultural Development in Siliana” and “Integrated Agricultural Development in Zaghouane” in Tunisia—on monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, and alternative feed resources and enhancing local institutions; and (ii) mountains and rural development projects in Morocco—on sociology, local institutions and rangeland management. ICARDA also provided technical backstopping to the IFAD-funded “Agro-Pastoral Development and Local Initiatives Promotion Program in the South-East” to institutionalize the community participatory approach within the project. Major achievements include: delimitation of the project area into 27 socioterritorial units, communities where an ethnic group is managing an area; production of two participatory community development plans of Ouled Chehida and Germessa communities; the production of a book of guidelines for working with communities; and providing training to the personnel of the project on the approaches and methodologies for working with communities. Workshops and coordination meetings Workshops organized by NARP in collaboration with other partners in 2004 included: (i) a workshop on “Assessing the Needs for Biotechnology in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia,” in collaboration with
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