ICRISAT wins 4 Communicator Awards
The ICRISAT- Annual Report 2014 won the Award of Excellence for featuring an interactive section on how gender can be integrated at Read more...
Exploring strategies and collaborations to increase participation of women throughout the chickpea value chain in Ethiopia
Potential areas of collaboration with various partners to help Ethiopian women overcome restricting cultural norms and enhance their participation in agronomic activities, Read more...
Participants witness the huge impact of improved agri-technologies on farmers and stakeholders along Ethiopian legume value chain
A field trip organized for the participants of the CGIAR Science Forum 2016 provided them an overview of how the legume commodity Read more...
Incoming Board Chair briefed on extensive work in pigeonpea improvement and promotion of new varieties of millets in ESA
Updates on the extensive ongoing research work in pigeonpea improvement, demand for the new sorghum varieties introduced, potential for pearl millet promotion Read more...
74th Governing Board Meeting Call to strengthen partnerships in drought hit Zimbabwe to benefit smallholder farmers
Increasing and expanding the production of small grains such as legumes and millets is critical to meet the challenges of the severe Read more...
ICRISAT Governing Board calls for strengthening partnerships in drought hit Zimbabwe to benefit smallholder farmers
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (22 April 2016) ― Increasing and expanding the production of small grains such as legumes and millets, are critical for overcoming Read more...
Sinking your teeth into sorghum rotis
Evaluating organoleptic qualities of varieties Crop value is determined not just by grain produced per hectare but also by its nutritional content. Read more...
‘YOU’th are the future of agricultural development
Recently, I had an opportunity to join over 500 delegates at the Third Global Conference of Agricultural Research and Development (GCARD3) in Johannesburg, Read more...
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’?
“Women’s crops” is a familiar feature in writing about smallholder agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara. Although not always easy to Read more...
STARS-One heralds the überization of world agriculture
This post is from the blog maintained by The STARS project In October 2015, the mayor of Sukumba (Koningue commune, Mali) awarded Read more...