Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed sorghum flour with a shelf life as Read more...
Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in significant income gains and increased yields for Read more...
CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire Challenge during CGIAR’s 2019 BIG DATA convention Read more...
Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a generation of high-level teachers in India, 30 Read more...
Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building trust is key to securing the benefits of Read more...
NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel size, shape and color were selected for further trials by Read more...
Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on bigger ventures by running small businesses that Read more...
Individual crop improvement operations merge into a single entity for greater efficiency
Under the new model of aligning all crop improvement operations, all the field operations across disciplines such as breeding, genomics and trait Read more...
Neglected No Longer: Grasspea and Finger Millet Pre-breeding Get a Boost
Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving Read more...
Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were selected for active promotion in Tanzania after Read more...