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File photo of evaluation trial of high oleic lines developed at ICRISAT during 2015 rainy season. Photo: ICRISAT

Jan

Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years

Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of the Indian groundnut industry which is keen on marketing ‘healthier’ oil to consumers in the next 2-3 years....

'Chikki' processing unit in Utnoor. Photo: AIP, ICRISAT

Jan

Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands

The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal farmers in Telangana In a bid to boost nutrition and income, farmers from tribal communities in the South Indian state of Telangana will shortly take to ‘agripreneurship’...

Participants visit a women's collective in India as part of a training program. Photos: AIP, ICRISAT

Jan

How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia

If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink called bushera and if an India-inspired peanut bar is a popular item in Zambian supermarkets, a training initiative in partnership with the India-Africa Forum Summit deserves...

Mr Khalid Abukari Giwah, a civil servant turned seed producer, on his groundnut farm in Tatuani village, Ghana. Photo: M Magassa

Jan

Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate

Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought situations and deteriorating soil quality, especially in the Sudanian and Sahelian zones, improving access to seed of climate-smart varieties is part of the solution. Spurred...

Jan

Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible

There are two compelling reasons for this shift. First, urban dwellers in Africa often have higher rates of malnutrition than their rural counterparts and, second, urban centres are large consumers of food produced in rural areas and in the process are altering the producing areas, sometimes beyond recognition...

Jan

Actionable policies to make Indian agriculture climate-resilient

Climate change is one of the most extreme challenges Indian agriculture is facing today and will have to deal with in future. There have been overwhelming and growing scientific evidences to establish that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variabilities and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely...

Jan

With technology and trust, we can move mountains

If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building rat houses on their land. But that’s just what some residents living on Ethiopia’s Yewol mountain worried scientists were doing. They saw the slow construction of stone-pile terraces along their mountainside. And they were suspicious...

A sorghum farmer inspects her small grains crop thriving in the dry conditions in March in the Mutoko rural area of Zimbabwe. Photo:AFP

Jan

Superfoods can’t save our broken system – but Smart Food can

Superfoods” is a catchword that has found popularity among the most health-conscious consumers. However, the concept of these nutritionally dense and healthy foods only focuses on one aspect of the complex global food system. With experts increasingly raising the alarm...

The Master Trainers training held at ICRISAT. Photo: IDC, ICRISAT

Jan

A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers

A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the 30 districts in the Indian state of Odisha successfully concluded in November 2019. Teams of government agricultural officers and ICRISAT staff in less than three months reached over...

Dr Shivali Sharma, Theme Leader, Pre-breeding, ICRISAT, explains how pre-breeding forms a critical link between genebanks and crop improvement programs in pigeonpea pre-breeding field during the Pigeonpea Field Day. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT

Dec

Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea

Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea Field Day With a view to using new and diverse sources of genetic variations in pigeonpea, the Pre-breeding Theme at ICRISAT is leading the drive to use wild...

Dr Anupama Hingane, Scientist, Pigeonpea Breeding, ICRISAT, with participants during the field day. Photo: ICRISAT

Dec

Short and mid-early pigeonpea varieties steal the show

Pigeonpea Network Group (Asia) Workshop-cum-Field Day 2019 Pigeonpea researchers from across Asia hailed a short and mid-early variety of pigeonpea that is also high-yielding and disease-resistant, at a recent brainstorming session to benchmark region-specific prioritized breeding for pigeonpea in the...

Farmer Bhimrao Mulgi (holding trays) interacts with the visitors. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT

Dec

Homegrown technologies help farmers boost yields and incomes

Farmers’ Field Day in Bidar, Karnataka The means to help farmers improve their livelihoods are not developed in offices and laboratories alone, but rather on the fields with indigenous innovative ideas and implements, as was demonstrated during a recent Farmers’...

Dr Shalander Kumar, Principal Scientist, ICRISAT, speaking at the conference at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. Photo: PAU

Dec

Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes

Food systems can be effectively transformed by identifying drivers of food choice and factors influencing personal food environments, thereby enabling effective strategies to link agriculture and nutrition. This was one of the key messages at the recent conference of the...

The student chefs with the judges. Photo: ICRISAT

Dec

Reality video series launched with student chefs from 16 schools across India

Who will be the Smart Food Culinary Champions of India? A Smart Food Culinary Challenge video series, the first ever ‘reality show for a cause’ with young chefs from across India, was launched recently through the SmartFood Global YouTube channel....

Children eating millet meals at school. Photo: Liam Wright, ICRISAT

Dec

First millet-meals scientific study in schools shows millets boost child growth by 50%

Findings from a recently published three-month feeding study with 1,500 children in Karnataka suggest that millet-based mid-day meals can increase relative growth by 50%. Children rated the meals, which were designed by scientists and chefs and included little millet as a rice substitute, over 4.5 on 5 for taste.

Participants from private seed companies of Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso in hybrid seed parent ICMA 177002 multiplication plot at ICRISAT re search station, Sadore, Niger. Photo: PI Gangashetty, ICRISAT

Dec

Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa

Exciting times ahead as public and private institutions come together to promote millets Seed research stakeholders and representatives of private seed companies from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, met with scientists, millet breeders and seed systems coordinators recently at...

The seven improved groundnut varieties in the regional catalog. Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT

Dec

Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties

More than 20 years after the last groundnut seed variety was registered in the seed catalog, the groundnut breeding program in West and Central Africa is set to be enhanced through the registration of seven improved groundnut varieties in Burkina...

(Left) Dr Tilahun Amede, Country Representative, ICRISAT-Ethiopia; Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT; a farmer from the Ethiopian highlands and Dr Anthony Whitbread, Research Program Director, Innovation Systems for the Drylands, ICRISAT (Right) Upstream-downstream views of the Ethiopian highlands. Photos: ICRISAT-Ethiopia

Dec

Reaffirming an old alliance with Ethiopia for better natural resource management

Collaboration with Ethiopian institutes on systems-based research programs – including joint projects in soil fertility management, watershed management, dryland irrigation systems, rangeland management, nutrition and policy influence – were discussed during a recent visit to Ethiopia by Dr Peter Carberry,...

Rasika Aher with Bill Gordon-Kamm and Ning Wang, reviewing progress on pearl millet transformation. Photo: J Gaffney, Corteva Agriscience

Dec

ICRISAT student researcher employs advanced technology for pearl millet trait development in US collaboration

PhD student Rashika Aher made the most of an opportunity to carry out research at Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, Iowa, USA. She recently returned to ICRISAT after completing a 10-week collaborative research assignment, which involved shuttling between two labs, improving knowledge...

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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years

Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands

How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia

Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate

Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible

Actionable policies to make Indian agriculture climate-resilient

With technology and trust, we can move mountains

Superfoods can’t save our broken system – but Smart Food can

A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers

Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea

Short and mid-early pigeonpea varieties steal the show

Homegrown technologies help farmers boost yields and incomes

Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes

Reality video series launched with student chefs from 16 schools across India

First millet-meals scientific study in schools shows millets boost child growth by 50%

Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa

Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties

Reaffirming an old alliance with Ethiopia for better natural resource management

ICRISAT student researcher employs advanced technology for pearl millet trait development in US collaboration

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