Restore land to sustain life: Inspiration from Yewol for all of us
Terraced mountainsides growing a range of crops – cereals, forage and vegetables like carrot and garlic that the people had never seen before; and a wide variety of trees (even apples!) – are a common sight in Yewol today.....
First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety In a first, the National Variety Release Read more...
Fighting the deadly menace of Parthenium grass
To combat a noxious weed like the Parthenium hysterophorus, a multipronged strategy that includes preventive measures, manual uprooting, herbicides and biological control Read more...
Helping rein in stray cattle to increase farm incomes
A series of initiatives, including increasing rainfed fodder production and rapid livestock pregnancy diagnosis, have been taken this monsoon in India’s Uttar Read more...
The nexus between agri-food value chains and nutrition
Multi-stakeholder policy dialog in Malawi Malawi has prioritized improving food security for its people through maize-oriented policies and investments. This has, however, Read more...
Improved sorghum varieties are finding new champions in Burkina Faso
The Provincial Union of Agricultural Professionals Bemba Nayala supported by the HOPE II project, recently won a contract to supply 200 tons Read more...
Investing in nutrition is investing in people
More than 400 policy makers, experts, and researchers endorsed the need for a better inclusion of millet, sorghum and groundnut in the Read more...
China and CGIAR ramping up joint work in dryland agriculture
A Center of Excellence on Dryland Agriculture (CEDA) already established will now expand to a co-hosted China and CGIAR international conference on Read more...
The power of the positive – ICRISAT DG calls attention to agriculture’s narrative
Leaving doomsday predictions and grim pictures of the world behind is important to make a difference to agriculture research in the world, Read more...
Training an army of giants for the biological control of Fall Armyworm
Scouting for natural enemies of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) (FAW) in both Asia and Africa, and establishing mass-rearing facilities will aid Read more...