sorghum

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,...

Mr Hamidou Kaboré and his wife during harvest of improved varieties Jakunbe and ICSV 1049. Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT

Jakunbe: New sorghum variety making a difference in lives of Burkina Faso farmers

16 Nov 2018

An improved, early-maturing sorghum variety is helping farmers in Burkina Faso attain nutritional and financial security. Simba is a village located about...

High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House

17 Aug 2018

Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so they get smarter – more nutritious and more...

Farmers with the SAMSORG 47 ZAUNA INUWA variety

Three sorghum varieties released in Nigeria

17 Aug 2018

Nigeria’s National Committee on Variety Naming, Registration and Release on 26 July 2018, approved the registration and release of two medium-maturing sorghum varieties, SAMSORG 47 as ZAUNA-INUWA, SAMSORG 48 as KAURA BORNU, and an early medium-maturing variety, SAMSORG 49 as CF35:5, in Nigeria.

(L-R) Smt Sunanda Shinde; Smt Ahilyabai Shinde; Dr Peter Carberry,Director General (Acting), ICRISAT; Sri Madan Rao Shinde; Prof AS Dhawan, Vice Chancellor, VNMKV; and Dr DP Waskar, Director of Research, VNMKV. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT

India gets its first biofortified sorghum

05 Jul 2018

India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum, was formally launched today. Developed by ICRISAT it was released for cultivation by Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth (VNMKV), Maharashtra.

Two Non-Profits Bring Smart Food Meals to Schools

02 Jul 2018

A new pilot project is enhancing children’s nutrition and food security in India by bringing Smart Foods to schools through the Akshaya Patra...

(L to R) The characteristic ‘drooping panicle’ of Persa Jonna. A farmer surveying his sorghum field. Photos: Rajani K, ICRISAT

Preserving legacy grains: The Persa Jonna story

26 Jun 2018

In Sidam Tulsiram’s village in Telangana state, India, no festivity or ritual is complete without the traditionally revered jowar (sorghum) grains. Whether...

Senegalese chef champions the benefits of Smart Food through social media

07 May 2018

J’ai rejoint le mouvement et vous? I’ve joined the movement, and you? Aissatou M’Baye, the Senegalese culinary blogger based in Paris, became...

Srikanth B. at the conference. Photo: S. Dattamazumdar

Global meet repositions sorghum as vital 21st century cereal

30 Apr 2018

After a gap of over two decades, more than 400 researchers from the global sorghum research community, including Dr Gebisa Ejeta, World...

Participants at the meeting in Kano, Nigeria Photo: L. Omoigui

Review of TL III and HOPE II projects highlights the role of synergy