• IALC Expertise, Experience, & Collaboration
  
• IALC Long-Range Goals
• IALC Selected Impacts
• IALC Overview & Slide Presentation and Video Clips
• Sustainable Development of Drylands
• Websites of Institutions Researching Arid Lands

IALC Newly-Defined Capabilities

Some of the newly-defined IALC capabilities include:
a) food security. . ., b) business management and marketing. . ., c) energy provision and policy. . ., d) human resource development. . ., e) natural resource management. . ., and f) water resource development. . . . The IALC plans to continue its successes into the future.

IALC Celebrates 20 Years of Success

The IALC strongly promotes collaborative research and practical application of new knowledge that promotes peace, particularly in the Middle East, through the development of sustainable agricultural and natural resources practices. The IALC is dedicated to exploring problems and solutions that improve the lives of people living in the arid and semiarid regions of the world. These regions cover one-third of the Earth’s surface and support more than one-fifth of the world’s population.

The IALC was authorized by Congress in 1990. During the past 20 years, the IALC has funded 91 research projects, 30 demonstration projects, 11 special initiatives; administered a successful 7-year IALC-USAID cooperative agreement in Central Asia and the Middle East; and sponsored 20 undergrad and grad students through the IALC Peace Fellowship program.

Selected project topics over the past 20 years include: conservation; water quality; irrigation; GIS & remote sensing; ecology; agriculture; wildlife management; rangeland management; wastewater; and biodiversity. IALC outcomes from projects include: journal articles; books; doctoral dissertations; presentations; Websites; and many others.