Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Ms Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, visited ICRISAT’s Matopos... Read More
Meeting with the Zimbabwe President – Matopos Research Center to be positioned as a world-class facility
The commitment to Zimbabwe’s agriculture was reinforced by ICRISAT’s Director General Dr Peter Carberry during his meeting with the President of Zimbabwe... Read More
New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in irrigation schemes in Africa are often not... Read More
Moving away from silos, working towards ‘synthesis’ of learnings
A special ‘Synthesis’ issue that collates research outputs from participating CGIAR centers was one of the key action points discussed at a... Read More
Modern, cutting-edge, collaborative – management of breeding data receives a boost across Africa
A hackathon, data migration and capacity building – it was a busy month for ICRISAT’s efforts to modernize databases and strengthen breeding... Read More
Curious youngsters visit ICRISAT Bulawayo and Matopos Research Institute
The day-out started with 25 young boys and girls, aged 8 to 16, from the neighboring Ethandweni Children’s Home and homeschoolers from... Read More
Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global and national challenges at its 7th Global... Read More
Science-policy dialogue around future farming ‘scenarios’ for climate smart agriculture
Food on our plates, be it meat or pulses, rice or millets, and how and where it is produced can be a... Read More
Innovation platforms help dryland communities shift to climate-smart thinking
Small farmers will have to innovate fast to adapt to more extreme and recurrent climate stresses From 6-17 November, the world’s governments... Read More
Seamless crop-livestock integration in drought-prone Zimbabwe: Discovering and adopting more profitable and sustainable farming through innovation platforms
“Last year was a drought year and the only crop we harvested was mucuna. This year we experienced water logging and again... Read More