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With great pride, we announce that Safaa Kumari, Plant Virologist, Head of ICARDA's Seed Health Laboratory, and BBC 100 Women 2020 Winner, was selected as Syria's Representative in the second edition of the Mediterranean Science Team (MST)
ICARDA, in collaboration with the Central Administration for Seed Certification, the Central Administration for Seed Production and the Meteorology Laboratory, and the Agricultural Research Center in Egypt, recently organized capacity development workshops for Iraqi agricultural engineers and farmers with a particular focus on seed production and management and greenhouse technology under the FAO joint project supporting the agricultural livelihoods of rural and peri-urban returnees and communities in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq.
Dr. Safaa Kumari, ICARDA's Virologist and Seed Health Laboratory Manager, and BBC 100 Woman 2020, recently completed an extensive knowledge-sharing tour. Safaa, students, and researchers from academic institutions across the region discussed legume and cereal viral diseases and how to manage and detect major quarantine seed-borne pests (diseases and insects) of legume and cereal crops.