A new dawn in Lebanon, and ICARDA

If you’re one of the lucky few who follow me on social media, you’ll know I was in Lebanon last week for the opening of the new ICARDA genebank. It was great to meet the dedicated team of Lebanese and Syrian staff who are re-establishing the active collection at Terbol in the Bekaa Valley, with material obtained from Svalbard late last year. And it was also great to be back in Lebanon after almost 25 years. Some things are still the same. But many have changed, and there’s hope in that.

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2 Replies to “A new dawn in Lebanon, and ICARDA”

  1. How I am happy about that, because I was one of GRU staff of ICARDA in Aleppo, for that I am happy that the all the collections of mandated crops of ICARDA now save and preserved in the new genebank at Torbul in Lebanon

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