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First millet-meals scientific study in schools shows millets boost child growth by 50%

Creating financial security for women in agriculture

Modernizing crop breeding programs

Breeding resilient crops for dryland farmers

Enhancing nutrition with climate-resilient crops

Securing livelihoods in a changing climate

Diversifying diets for a better future

Preventing and reversing environmental degradation

Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands

17 Jan 2020

Participants visit a women's collective in India as part of a training program. Photos: AIP, ICRISAT

How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia

10 Jan 2020

Dr Shivali Sharma, Theme Leader, Pre-breeding, ICRISAT, explains how pre-breeding forms a critical link between genebanks and crop improvement programs in pigeonpea pre-breeding field during the Pigeonpea Field Day. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT

Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea

27 Dec 2019

Dr Anupama Hingane, Scientist, Pigeonpea Breeding, ICRISAT, with participants during the field day. Photo: ICRISAT

Short and mid-early pigeonpea varieties steal the show

27 Dec 2019

The student chefs with the judges. Photo: ICRISAT

Reality video series launched with student chefs from 16 schools across India

27 Dec 2019

Participants from private seed companies of Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso in hybrid seed parent ICMA 177002 multiplication plot at ICRISAT re search station, Sadore, Niger. Photo: PI Gangashetty, ICRISAT

Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa

20 Dec 2019

The seven improved groundnut varieties in the regional catalog. Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT

Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties

20 Dec 2019

(Left) Dr Tilahun Amede, Country Representative, ICRISAT-Ethiopia; Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT; a farmer from the Ethiopian highlands and Dr Anthony Whitbread, Research Program Director, Innovation Systems for the Drylands, ICRISAT (Right) Upstream-downstream views of the Ethiopian highlands. Photos: ICRISAT-Ethiopia

Reaffirming an old alliance with Ethiopia for better natural resource management

20 Dec 2019

Rasika Aher with Bill Gordon-Kamm and Ning Wang, reviewing progress on pearl millet transformation. Photo: J Gaffney, Corteva Agriscience

ICRISAT student researcher employs advanced technology for pearl millet trait development in US collaboration

20 Dec 2019

Mr Gagandeep Sethi, Vice President Supply & Logistics–South Asia, AB InBev, and Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT, at the MoU signing. Photo: P S Rao

Ab Inbev partners with ICRISAT to Increase water access of communities in Sangareddy, Telangana

10 Dec 2019

Presidium of speakers at the official opening of the APBA conference. Photo: M Magassa-ICRISAT

African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana

06 Dec 2019

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ICRISAT & Sustainable Development Goals

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XIX International Plant Protection Congress
(IPPC 2019)
ICRISAT in Zimbabwe
Bhoochetana Timeline
Agribusiness and Innovation Platform
Centre of Excellence in Genomics
Crop Physiology Laboratory
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ICRISAT Genebank
Smart Food
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Healthy Food Systems: The Foundation for a Better World

Across the semi-arid regions of Asia and Africa, ICRISAT’s work for over 46 years has intertwined scientific research in agriculture, but the underlying emphasis has been on health, the environment and livelihoods. This edition of the Annual Report is an effort to place at the center of discourse, the institution’s contribution to ‘Health’ and ‘Healthy Food Systems’ – not just from the perspective of people, but also for the planet, sustainable living and a healthier world. Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, it also effectively feeds into the existing and emerging priorities of the CGIAR.

For the interactive and mobile-friendly web version

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ICRISAT’s 45th anniversary timeline and ‘my wish’ for the drylands

The 45 years were all about finding every opportunity to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in the drylands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Share your view and images about ICRISAT on social media using #icrisat45.

View timeline: http://www.icrisat.org/icrisat45years

Upcoming events

GeoSmart Agriculture track at the 20th edition of GeoSmart India,3rd – 5th December, 2019, Hyderabad. https://geosmartindia.net/about.html

The 20th edition of GeoSmart India will bring together thought leaders, start-ups, tech giants and the Indian geospatial diaspora at India’s largest geospatial event on the 3-5 December 2019 in Hyderabad. https://www.icrisat.org/event/geosmart-agriculture-track-at-the-20th-edition-of-geosmart-india/

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