Young chefs heat up India’s first Smart Food reality show

04 Jan 2019

Fourteen finalist young chefs from across India will fire up the burners, aiming to be crowned the country’s star Smart Food student chef. Paired into seven teams, they will take on the challenge of pleasing the palate of celebrity judges and Smart Food experts at the Grand Finale of the Smart Food Culinary Challenge on 19 January 2019 in Bengaluru.

First Smart Food Culinary Symposium prepares ground for change in millets industry

28 Dec 2018

The first of a series of India-wide Smart Food Culinary Symposia was organized for chefs from major fine dining chains and food...

Placing Smart Food in industrial canteen menus

28 Dec 2018

Opportunities and challenges to bring millets into industrial canteens were brought to the table at an event held in Bengaluru to create...

Collaborating with celebrity chefs in London, Paris and West Africa

24 Dec 2018

Smart Food cooks up momentum with culinary skills from across London to Paris, West Africa and India Three celebrity chefs from Gabon,...

Building culinary skills with a wide range of activities across West and Central Africa

24 Dec 2018

From being blogged about to being showcased at international events, the Smart Food initiative is gaining support from chefs to politicians in...

Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes

24 Dec 2018

Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and dryland cereals including millets, the state’s Principal...

Young chefs face-off in first Smart Food Culinary Challenge

11 Dec 2018

The first Smart Food Culinary Challenge was launched with 58 student chefs from 16 culinary institutes across India. They were competing to...

Drs Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director General Asia Pacific, FAO, and Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT at the signing in Bangkok.

International organizations team up to power new and smarter foods

30 Nov 2018

How do we tackle some of the biggest and critical global nutritional health/environmental issues in unison? How could we achieve greater impact...

(L-R) Drs P Parthasarathy Rao, R Padmaja, Shalander Kumar, K Dakshina Murthy and Ms Joanna Kane-Potaka at the conference held in Karnal, Haryana. Photo: J Kane-Potaka, ICRISAT

Research in rural economics and social science vital to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals

30 Nov 2018

The 26th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA), India, focused on Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as...

Group discussion in progress. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT

New ways to engage farmers through social entrepreneurs

09 Nov 2018

A new initiative has begun to better support value chains where farmers’ welfare is one key component, through the creation of social...

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