Building villages where water saving and waste upcycling is a way of life
A holistic watershed approach that not just conserves water and soil for better crop production but touches people’s lives through science-led interventions Read more...
Two women-led food processing units opened in India
ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telangana state to start their entrepreneurial ventures. Ms Satyavathi Rathod, Read more...
Tribal welfare minister inaugurates women-led processing units in Bhadrachalam and Khammam
Ms. Satyavathi Rathod, Minister for Scheduled Tribes, Women and Child Welfare, Telangana, inaugurated a women-run moringa (drumstick) processing unit in Mucharala village of Khammam district and a dry mix (ready-to-cook foods) unit in Bhadrachalam on Saturday. Both the units are wholly owned by tribal women, who were trained in food processing and entrepreneurship at ICRISAT.
Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to earn US$ 20,400 (CFA 11,200,000) in just Read more...
WE Hub Foundation and ICRISAT pledge to support women entrepreneurs in agribusiness by signing MoU
WE Hub Foundation, a platform to promote women entrepreneurs that was launched by the Government of Telangana State in India, and ICRISAT Read more...
Turning brewery waste into women’s wealth
Brewery waste boosts incomes for rural women in drought-hit drylands of India More extreme weather events and shifting seasons is expected as Read more...
Women empowerment is key to food and economic security in Malawi
Improved legume and dryland seed varieties together with training in technologies and agronomic practices provided by small-scale farmer clubs in Malawi are proving to be a cost-effective way of reducing hunger and malnutrition and empowering women.
Empowering women to bridge gender productivity gap
In early 2017, a gender study was conducted among 200 smallholder farmers from 20 communities in Ghana. It revealed that male groundnut Read more...
Creating more linkages across the sorghum value chain
Unique ways of promoting sorghum through programs to sensitize school children and radio talk shows to link actors along the sorghum value Read more...
International Women’s Day celebrations at ICRISAT
On 8 March, the women staff at ICRISAT, Patancheru came together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The program included interacting with three Read more...