NITI Aayog cites ICRISAT watershed achievements
The NITI Aayog recently commended the impact of community best practices for watershed management, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. “Local community in Read more...
Myanmar’s chickpea farmers reap the fruits of decades-long research collaboration
Myanmar has witnessed a chickpea revolution during the past two decades as production increased nearly eightfold (from 67,000 tons in 1998 to Read more...
Award given for taking the ‘waste’ out of wastewater in India’s villages for agriculture
Earlier a menace, swamps in Mentapally are now water sources for agriculture. The turnaround in the south Indian village comes on the Read more...
Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable solutions to mitigating them at COP24, we Read more...
Wilder and stronger: India-Myanmar pigeonpea program gets new research boost
The largest producer of pigeonpea in the world, India can increase its production three times over provided there are varieties resistant to diseases and adapted to climate change.
Symposium on impact of climate resilient agricultural practices
A symposium highlighting work done by Dr Suhas Wani, former Research Program Director, Asia Program, ICRISAT, in natural resource management and dryland Read more...
Empowering women farmers through Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) in Northern Ghana
A study in Northern Ghana revealed that lack of access to finance often hinders productivity in women-run farms. To correct this, several Read more...
TIGR2ESS: An interdisciplinary project to revitalize agriculture sustainably in India
Gori Bi, a landless widow with two kids, works on other farmers’ fields for wages in a small village in Telangana. She 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...
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...