Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to earn US$ 20,400 (CFA 11,200,000) in just Read more...
WE Hub Foundation and ICRISAT pledge to support women entrepreneurs in agribusiness by signing MoU
WE Hub Foundation, a platform to promote women entrepreneurs that was launched by the Government of Telangana State in India, and ICRISAT Read more...
Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISAT is overhauling its breeding program with regional crop Read more...
Demonstrating the use of remote sensing and machine-learning for agriculture
Real time information from a remote sensing satellite miles above earth helped identify crop stress due to rains in Bhadrak, Jajapur, Kendraparha Read more...
Building gender and youth research capacities for agriculture and development
Aspiring researchers who attended ICRISAT’s capacity building programs in gender and youth research in East and Southern Africa say their learnings from Read more...
Developing a five-year Strategic Plan for ICRISAT WCA Research Program
Leveraging stakeholder partnerships, improving risk management efforts, enhancing farm production systems while sustaining natural resources and building of stronger research systems were Read more...
Resource Mobilization dashboards launched for better tracking and decision making
ICRISAT’s projects, proposals, donor and pipeline funding information is now available to all staff to assist with their Program resource mobilization. The Read more...
Seed consortium to bring improved sorghum to Indian farmers post rains
To make quality seeds of improved sorghum easily accessible, a consortium of institutions is taking up 3000 tons of seed production this Read more...
Nutrition proofing the drylands: The Seed to Diet approach
At a time when the world is focusing on three global challenges – food security, nutrition and climate resilience – ICRISAT’s learnings Read more...
What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon dioxide levels and climate change, researchers at Read more...