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496                      <h3>Capacity Development</h3>
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503                                                      <li>
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506                                                          </li>
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530                                                          </li>
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532                              <a href="/capacity-development/fao-elearning-academy" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/7141">FAO E-Learning Academy</a>
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552                                      <div class="submenu__promo-body">ICBA is dedicated to advancing agricultural productivity and resilience in saline and arid environments through innovative, science-based solutions.</div>
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620                              <a href="/publications/guides-and-manuals" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="guides">Guides and Manuals</a>
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626                      <h3>Reports</h3>
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632                                                          </li>
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654                                                          </li>
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658                                                          </li>
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736                              <a href="/biosalinity-newsletter" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="biosalinity-newsletter">Biosalinity Newsletter</a>
737
738                                                          </li>
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745                                      <div class="submenu__column">
746                      <h3>Events</h3>
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750                              <a href="/events/conferences" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="taxonomy/term/954">Conferences</a>
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752                                                          </li>
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755
756                                                          </li>
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760                                                          </li>
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783                                      <div class="submenu__column">
784                      <h3>ICBA at COP</h3>
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788                              <a href="/events/cop29" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/16032">ICBA at COP29</a>
789
790                                                          </li>
791                                                      <li>
792                              <a href="/events/cop28" class="text-gray-300" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/14383">ICBA at COP28</a>
793
794                                                          </li>
795                                                      <li>
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816                                      <div class="submenu__promo-body">
816A Commitment to Cultivation that Needs to Reach the Right Audiences.</div>
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1518           We prevent salinity and its associated impacts through ICBA’s integrated systems-based approach, combining scientific expertise with collaborative global partnerships. This proactive pillar focuses on innovative practices to protect agricultural lands and prevent salinization, aligned with ICBA’s mission to promote sustainable agrifood systems.
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1530           ICBA leads in managing salinity by applying science-based solutions developed through cutting-edge research and innovation. By leveraging partnerships and adopting a holistic approach, we provide practical strategies to optimize agricultural productivity in saline environments.
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1539           Recover
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1541      <p>
1542           Recovery efforts aim to restore productivity in saline-affected lands while enhancing resilience in rural communities. Through targeted interventions, such as the introduction of stress-tolerant crops and improved soil and water management te
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1597            <div><p>ICBA’s thought leadership is rooted in its strategic goal to prevent, manage, and recover from salinity, creating a lasting impact on rural economies and advancing global food security.</p><p>The world is grappling with a complex web of interconnected challenges, all of which are central to ICBA’s mission and strategies. These challenges encompass salinity, climate change, globalization and localization, technology and infrastructure, funding availability, and the political and economic landscape.</p></div>
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1674Technology and Infrastructure
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1677Limited access to modern agricultural technology hampers resilience. ICBA leverages digital agriculture, including precision farming and remote sensing, to bridge knowledge gaps and provide scalable, low-cost solutions for rural communities.
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1692Accessing sustainable funding for agricultural innovation is a challenge. ICBA mobilizes partnerships and explores innovative funding models to support capacity-building programs and biosaline research initiatives.
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.