WHEAT Genetic Optimization and Advancement for Livelihoods (WHEAT GOAL) collaborate closely with national and international universities, research centers, and development agencies to promote interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange that bridge science and practice for crop improvement in dry areas. By integrating global expertise with local experience, WHEAT GOAL links cutting-edge research with field applications and industrial needs to advance the sustainability, resilience, and food security of wheat production systems. Through these partnerships, WHEAT GOAL ensures that innovations developed in the laboratory generate real-world impact—empowering communities, improving the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers, and contributing to a more sustainable and food-secure future.
🌾Strategic Contributions:
At WHEAT Genetic Optimization and Advancement for Livelihoods (WHEAT GOAL), a knowledge-based strategy is employed to boost wheat and barley productivity in dryland and marginal environments by utilizing recent advances in molecular breeding, genomics, bioinformatics and plant biotechnology. In addition, breeding for climate-resilience combines molecular tools and QTL mapping with the integration of elite global germplasm and locally adapted material tested across diverse environments. This work aims to provide small-holder farmers with climate-smart crops that demonstrate improved productivity under harsh conditions.
🌾Global–Local Partnerships:
WHEAT Genetic Optimization and Advancement for Livelihoods (WHEAT GOAL) research group partners at both global and local levels collaborates with different leading scientific institutions including CIMMYT, ICARDA, the John Innes Centre, Jordan's Ministry of Agriculture, National Agricultural Research Center (NARC), private sector and smallholder farmers to ensure that scientific progress and research outcomes reaches the field, where it matters most. Furthermore, combining the global expertise of leading research institutes with the Jordanian research groups and in partnership with local farmers, WHEAT GOAL aims to bridge the gap between lab-based innovation and field-level implementation to ensure that new varieties, technologies and agronomic practices are adopted to strengthen wheat production systems in marginal and dryland environments to improve the livelihood of resource-poor farmers, and contributing to national and global food security.