ICRISAT Wins SERVIR West Africa Phase 2 Implementation Award
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is pleased to announce the award of a five-year cooperative agreement by USAID to implement the second phase of SERVIR West Africa. Read more
Joining hands to conserve plant genetic resources for a food secure future in Chad
To enhance the capacity of Chad’s national agriculture research system in the conservation of plant germplasm, ICRISAT, through its genebank in Niger, Read more...
Zimbabwe agriculture minister: Government, ICRISAT should unite against hunger, poverty and malnutrition
Dr Anxious Masuka, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement, during a recent visit to the ICRISAT Matopos Research Read more...
UK Minister Lord Ahmad visits ICRISAT, discusses climate action
Lord Tariq Ahmad, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth in the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), led a high-level delegation to discuss climate-resilient agriculture, biodiversity and sustainability during his visit to the ICRISAT here on Thursday. Read more
Creating a team of young scientists equipped with tech tools to fight pests and diseases
A recent workshop on pest and disease modeling for crops was conducted for young scientists from various parts of India, by the Read more...
Upskilling climate change experts in Mali: Training begins with live project synopsis
A training program initiated by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is upskilling climate change professionals in Mali from various streams ranging Read more...
Repurposing Public Policies for Sustainable Water Management in Indian Agriculture
The importance of sustainable management of water in a changing climate cannot be over-emphasized. Depleting water resources, besides land degradation and desertification; Read more...
Goats Against Climate Change
Earlier this year, Cyclone Idai swept across Mozambique. Its powerful winds and heavy rains led to massive floods, hundreds of deaths, and the large-scale destruction of crops and property. An estimated 140,000 people were displaced, and six months later, nearly one million people, including 160,000 children under five, are still facing food shortages and a nutrition crisis...
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...
‘Science of Discovery to Science of Delivery’ discussed at University of Cambridge
Partnerships are key to deliver on ICRISAT’s mission of ‘Science of Discovery to Science of Delivery’. To discuss several of ICRISAT’s ongoing Read more...