Strengthening Synergies between Groundnut Projects in Nigeria
Groundnut is acknowledged to be important to Nigeria’s economy – both commercially and nutritionally. The most commonly grown crop in Nigeria, the Read more...
Combating rural women’s poverty through multi-stakeholder innovation platforms in Burkina Faso
1600 producers, researchers and technical services officers from agriculture, livestock and the environment sectors participated in guided visits conducted as part of Read more...
Introducing groundnut varieties more tolerant to Rosette disease in Tanzania
Groundnut researchers are striving to introduce superior options to a popular early-maturing groundnut variety, Pendo (ICGMS 33), in Tanzania. Although Pendo has Read more...
Breathing life into dying soils in harsh landscapes of the Ethiopian Highlands
As the Global Landscapes Forum – the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable land use – begins on December 19 in Bonn, Read more...
Achieving better nutrition, one cookery class at a time
A recently published research paper reveals how technology, knowledge and effective communication can help to address dietary misconceptions and encourage better nutritional Read more...
Science-policy dialogue around future farming ‘scenarios’ for climate smart agriculture
Food on our plates, be it meat or pulses, rice or millets, and how and where it is produced can be a Read more...
Weeding out striga from African drylands
A striga workshop organised by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) gathered experts from Europe, USA, Africa and Read more...
Can developing market opportunities for dryland cereals and legumes support uptake of quality seed?
Crops such as millets, sorghum, groundnut, chickpea, pigeonpea and other grain legumes are important staple foods that are not only resilient to Read more...
Celebrating a decade of genomic advances in agriculture
Hyderabad [7 December 2017]: The time taken to develop improved crop varieties has almost halved with the rapid strides made in genomics Read more...
Abhishek honoured as Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics
Dr Abhishek Rathore, Theme Leader – Statistics, Bio-Informatics & Data Management, ICRISAT, was honored as a Fellow of the Indian Society of Read more...