CIHEAM Zaragoza

New course: Predictive Breeding Tools for Intensive and Sustainable Production under Climate Change Scenarios

CIHEAM Zaragoza –together with the EU Projects ERA-Net SusCrop BARISTA and PRIMA GENDIBAR, and ICARDA– organize this advanced course to raise awareness of the extra challenges imposed by climate change to food security and cereal breeding; give guidance on the possibilities offered by crop and climate models to improve predictions; and provide an integrated overview of the strategies that must be considered to increase breeding effectiveness combining recent advances on genomics and phenomics with crop and climate modelling

Prof. Lamiae Ghaouti (IAV Hassan II, Morocco): New President of the CIHEAM Advisory Board

Prof. Lamiae Ghaouti is in charge of the Department of Cooperation, Partnership and Development at the Agronomic and Veterinary Institute Hassan II (IAV Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco). She also holds the position of Head of the Department of Plant Production, Protection and Biotechnology where she has been teaching since 2011. She completed her PhD in Agronomy, Specializing in Plant Genetic Improvement at Georg-August Göttingen University in Germany, where she completed her PhD in Agronomy and received the Kurt von Rümker Prize in Quedlinburg in 2009. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Advisory Board, the scientific council for the CIHEAM.

New feeds and feeding technologies in aquaculture

An advanced course for professionals on “New Feeds and Feeding Technologies in Aquaculture” was organized online from 14 to 23 June 2021 by CIHEAM Zaragoza and the EU H2020 funded project MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development. Grant agreement No 727315), with the collaboration of the EU H2020 projects PerformFISH (Integrating Innovative Approaches for Competitive and Sustainable Performance across the Mediterranean Aquaculture Value Chain) and NewTechAqua (New technologies Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture).