High up in the mountains or at the margins of the desert — these are just some of the harsh conditions where people are successfully interacting with nature, finding innovative ways to manage landscapes to grow food. In this short video, Bioversi…
Archive for February, 2012
Changing Chickpea Culture in Ethiopia
Changing Chickpea Culture in Ethiopia Changing Chickpea Culture in Ethiopia From: icrisatco Views: 626 3 ratings Time: 07:02 More in Nonprofits & Activism
Chickpea changes lives in Ethiopia
Beautifully produced story of how improved chickpea changed a poor woman’s life thanks to Ethiopian-ICRISAT collaboration in the Tropical Legumes II project. Time: 7 minutes 2 seconds.
A vision for climate smart crops in 2030: Potatoes and their wild relatives
Presentation made in CIP (Lima) on a vision for climate smart crops in 2030, focussing on potato. Presented in the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CIP organised meeting on “Expert consultation workshop on the use of crop wild relatives for pre-br…
AidNews: Nigeria: IITA offers recipe to tackle food insecurity and unemployment
Tapping research outputs from international agricultural research centers could help national and state governments to tackle the twin problems of food insecurity and the rising wave of unemployment, says the Director General of the International Insti…