ICRISAT scientist wins Women in Livestock Science award
Dr Clarisse Umutoni, Livestock Scientist, Dryland Systems and Livelihood Diversification, West and Central Africa, ICRISAT, received an award in the Women in Read more...
Bringing agriculture research, development and extension systems together
Agricultural extension training organization MANAGE and ICRISAT are exploring new opportunities to partner that will strengthen and integrate capacity building across the 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...
Few alternative thoughts to farm loan waivers
A big development in the run-up to the General Elections to the Lok Sabha later this year has been around the announcements Read more...
Who are those people we call farmers?
Agricultural interventions should match household aspirations Just about six percent of rural households in Kenya, aspire for their children to become farmers. Read more...
Resilience over profitability: Could agricultural research deliver on both?
A new study that looked at the recent research strategy vis-à-vis 45-years of research done by ICRISAT shows that distinct objectives of resilience and profitability have emerged. Sometimes technologies evolve in the labs or on farmers fields and what is good for developing resilience of smallholder farmers turns out to be effective in enhancing profitability or vice versa. Thus highlighting the intent to conduct research with clear focus and to have an open mind at the same time.
Combining traditions and technologies among tribal farmers in India
What does bullock cart racing have in common with agricultural research? Normally not much, but in the last week of January, these Read more...
ICRISAT is hosting “International Conference on Statistics & Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research
The 70th ISAS Annual International Conference on “Statistics & Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research” is being organized by International Crops Research Read more...