Case of the Afar region in Ethiopia: The lone green patch on a denuded stretch

The once bare terrain of the project site at Chifra, now boasts of farms. Photo: T Amede, ICRISAT

Case of the Afar region in Ethiopia: The lone green patch on a denuded stretch

16 Jun 2017

On the 130-km drive from Semera, the capital of Afar region in Ethiopia, to the research site in Chifra, the lone green...

Ms Srilatha (second from left) hands over a soil test card to a woman farmer at the launch. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT

Addressing water scarcity, land degradation and low agricultural productivity in an Indian village through CSR collaboration

16 Jun 2017

Water scarcity, land degradation and the resultant low agricultural productivity that’s making young farmers averse to taking up agriculture are some of...

Farmer with her harvest of okra Photo M. Amadou ICRISAT

World Day to Combat Desertification: ICRISAT’s definitive steps towards a greener Africa

15 Jun 2017

Every year, 12 million hectares of fertile land are degraded, its six-inch thick topsoil eroded, by drought and soil abuse. This land,...

Collaborators Santosh Deshpande (ICRISAT) and G. Subbarao (JIRCAS) in a BNI sorghum trial.

Nitrogen-efficient crops on the horizon: Can we grow more with fewer emissions?

15 Jun 2017

A group of scientists from the Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) Research Consortium, of which the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid...

The team from Cornell University and ICRISAT working on the deployment of GOBII production release v1 ‘Cascadilla’. Photo: B Anjaiah, ICRISAT

Cascadilla: A new tool for crop breeders to efficiently manage huge volumes of genomic data

09 Jun 2017

To assist crop breeders to use huge volumes of genomic data effectively in breeding programs and significantly increase genetic gain in key...

A woman dries shallots to make them last longer in Kolondialan, central Mali. Photo: Zoe Tabary, Thomson Reuters Foundation

With a bit of ‘time travel’, Malians prepare farms of the future

09 Jun 2017

Nouhoun Tigana, a farmer in rural central Mali, doesn’t know for sure what the weather will be tomorrow – other than that...

Farmers examining a groundnut farm cultivating new varieties. ICRISAT File Photo.

Extension agents trained on groundnut technologies to help farmers improve their yields

09 Jun 2017

Groundnut cultivation in northern Nigeria can be a daunting task as the soils are generally poor. This is aggravated by the fact...

Farmer’s perception of land degradation and solutions to restoring soil fertility in Niger

07 Jun 2017

This post was featured in World Agroforestry Centre. Ensuring food security, reducing poverty and improving the resilient of poor smallholders famers living...

Demonstration on machine harvesting of chickpea variety Phule Vikram at a farmer’s field in Maharashtra. Photo: MPKV

Two new machine-harvestable chickpea varieties released in India: A case of demand-driven innovation

02 Jun 2017

Two new machine harvestable chickpea varieties ICCV 08102 (RVG 204) and ICCV 08108 (Phule Vikram) were released recently in the Indian states...

Farmers attend a sorghum field day in Kiboko, Kenya, conducted for the Sorghum for Multiple Uses (SMU) value chains in Kenya and Tanzania project. Photo: ICRISAT, file photo

New project brings hope to farmers waiting to build on previous successful value chain initiatives

02 Jun 2017

To strengthen sorghum, finger millet and pearl millet value chains in East Africa, a new project was launched. The four-year program will...

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