Major step forward in chickpea and pigeonpea research – reference genome data assembled
Addressing protein hunger: New genome assemblies of chickpea and pigeonpea lines available @ICRISAT will allow scientists to better understand plant traits to breed more nutritional varieties. Processes that take years were completed in a few months with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM 3.0
Climate-proofing Indian agriculture
Climate change has perhaps posed the most extreme challenges that agriculture in India and across the world has to deal with today and in the future. There is now scientific consensus that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variability and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely.
New Technologies for Public Good & Better Food Crops: ICRISAT and Keygene in Partnership
A global partnership on technologies to potentially benefit millions of smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa, was signed on May 25, 2018
Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa
A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives and livelihood of farmers in Western Africa, was launched earlier this month. There has been little investment in research and development for crop-livestock systems with market linkages.
Researchers recommend factoring in aspirations of rural households
Agricultural research must listen to farmers and their aspirations while designing effective technology solutions Over 70% of sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people Read more...
Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India brought together 50 groundnut researchers to give Read more...
Why seed conservation and genebanks are crucial for maintaining biodiversity
With climate change threatening crop diversity, genebanks take on the crucial role of being the source of biological genetic diversity In 2012 Read more...
Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global and national challenges at its 7th Global Read more...
Strategic investments and Scientific Award announcements mark ICRISAT’s 84th Board Meeting
The announcement of new strategic investments for research, marked the 84th meeting of ICRISAT’s Governing Board. Held at Lilongwe, Malawi, from April Read more...
The many models of Malawi that help farmers get better incomes
As part of the recently concluded Governing Board Meeting, ICRISAT Board members visited several farmers’ fields in Malawi to witness firsthand the Read more...