New chickpea helps farmers adapt to climate change...

Chickpeas--one of the plants with the highest amount of protein--are a staple of Middle Eastern food. Farmers in Turkey, according to a September 4 report by Environment News Service, have been enduring a severe drought that has caused their crops to fail. A new chickpea variety that can withstand drought and still produce a high yield has been developed by scientists with the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) based in Aleppo, Syria.