Farmers from Nepal talk about the changing climate and how they hope the newly launched climate smart agriculture platform will assist them. Raj Krishna Mushyan and Padam Bahadur Shrestha, both farmers from Nepal talk about the climate smart agricultur…
Shenzhen, China and Hyderabad, India, April 24, 2012 – BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
The Bangladesh government will trial an African drought-tolerant rice variety – Nerica – on farmers’ fields in an effort to…
IFAD–Sustainability for all. It sounds like a lofty goal, but I can tell you that sustainability is well within our reach. I know this from my 20 years of working as a research scientist at the CGIAR, my 10 years leading the Africa Rice Centre, a…
‘Feeding dairy cattle in East Africa’, by B Lukuyu, CK Gachuiri, MN Lukuyu, C Lusweti, S Mwendia (2012). This manual covers information on the basic nutrients a dairy cow requires, the available feed resources that provide these nutrients a…
