Giving smallholder farmers due recognition
Opinion piece by Dr Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT
Ukraine-Russia crisis: Another wake-up call for home-grown agricultural solutions
Opinion piece by Dr Rebbie Harawa, Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa, ICRISAT.
50th Anniversary Celebration of ICRISAT in Nigeria
ICRISAT Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in Mali
World Environment Day
Making Weeds Waste Profitable: an AI-Based Tool from ICRISAT
Agriculture and the Environment
Opinion piece by Dr Jacqueline d'Arros Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT
ICRISAT Wins 2022 Excellence in Practice Gold Award
ICRISAT and the European Union in Mali Exhibit Smart Foods
ICRISAT Development Center (IDC) scientist bags Bhagirath Samman Award by Uttar Pradesh Government (India)
Address at ICRISAT's 50th Anniversary Celebrations in Zimbabwe
By the The Hon. Dr Anxious J Masuka, Zimbabwe Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement
ICRISAT 50 Years of Scientific Innovation and Impact in the Drylands
ICRISAT Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in Kenya
COVID-19 Update from ICRISAT
ICRISAT hopes that all our partners and the people we serve in the drylands are safe and well, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our lives.
As before, we are working hard to develop and implement solutions for farmers and agribusinesses, as our way of contributing at this difficult time
As before, we are working hard to develop and implement solutions for farmers and agribusinesses, as our way of contributing at this difficult time
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A year of many big impacts and landmark varietal releases
In 2020, ICRISAT was able to lend its name to landmark varietal releases of its crops across Asia and Africa and register big impacts in improving dryland agri-food systems. Advanced technologies and resources related to crop breeding, digital agriculture and genomics were shared as international public goods and the research studies contributed to knowledge sharing worldwide. Read more about our multi-faceted research achievements and impacts in the ICRISAT Annual Report 2020.
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ICRISAT awarded 2021 Africa Food Prize
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
ICRISAT, a CGIAR Research Center, is a non-profit, non-political public international research organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world.
Read more: https://www.icrisat.org/icrisat-awarded-2021-africa-food-prize/
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