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‘Seed funding’: How more billionaires can help end world hunger
23.12.21A recent Twitter conversation between the UN’s David Beasley and Tesla’s Elon Musk has shown…
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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
13.12.21-
Nutrition
While enough food is produced to feed everyone 1.5 times over, poor diets continue to hold…
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Voices, collaboration and complexity: Improving nutrition in the 21st century
07.12.21CGIAR-sponsored Nutrition for Growth side event grapples with challenges to provide nutritious diets…
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CGIAR: A Vital Knowledge and Science Partner for Climate Action
15.11.21Over the past two weeks, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
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One CGIAR Announces Global, Regional and Senior Director Appointments
12.11.21The CGIAR Executive Management Team is excited to announce that a major milestone has been r…
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Call for Climate Protection for Smallholders that Produce One Third of Global Food
08.11.21UK boosts commitment to curtail agricultural emissions and reduce climate-induced loss and damage. G…
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Digital phenotyping technologies set to take off across CGIAR
08.12.21-
Big data
New and more accessible digital phenotyping technologies and methods can help breeding programs coll…
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ICRISAT awarded 2021 Africa Food Prize
08.09.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the …
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A year of many big impacts and landmark varietal releases
03.09.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Surmounting all odds in 2020, ICRISAT with its ‘business as usual’ attitude was able to…
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ICRISAT’s plant health researchers mine genes to defend chickpea against a deadly pathogen
03.09.21-
Genomics
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In their battle against dry root rot (DRR) of chickpea, a devastating fungal disease emerging…
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A monk’s souvenir that became pigeonpea’s crown jewel
27.08.21-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
ICP 7035, a landrace of pigeonpea from India is a rare line with resistance to…
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New high-yielding pigeonpea variety set for release in India, more to come
09.07.21Researchers from ARS Tandur, IIPR Kanpur and ICRISAT monitoring progress in collaborative projects. …
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Global Landscapes Forum Africa: Restoring Africa’s drylands needs a localized, integrated approach, say experts at the conference
11.06.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
At the recent GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Conference, thousands of restoration practit…
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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
04.06.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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Burkina Faso releases its first pearl millet hybrid
03.06.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISATand evalu…
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Dryland crop technology to rescue drought-hit crop-livestock farmers in Zimbabwe
21.05.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Climate change-induced droughts in Zimbabwe over the last two decades has hit resource-poor farmers …
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A good pearl millet hybrid gets even better
23.04.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A team of researchers in India has bettered an immensely popular pearl millet hybrid, HHB…
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Little millet that are big on nutrition and yield identified at ICRISAT
16.04.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A team of researchers has zeroed in on little millet germplasm with high nutrients, high…
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Zimbabwe agriculture minister: Government, ICRISAT should unite against hunger, poverty and malnutrition
16.04.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr Anxious Masuka, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlem…
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Ghana farmers’ group raises groundnut yield five-fold with improved varieties, breaks three-decade productivity barrier
09.04.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Two improved groundnut varieties have helped a group of farmers in Ghana increase their yields…
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Malian farmers garner benefits of breeding initiatives, despite pandemic
26.03.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
EU-APSAN-Mali project makes great strides in first year. More than 80,000 farmers, seed and grain…
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Building seed business hubs around women and youth in Tanzania
26.03.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Working with private seed companies, ICRISAT is helping integrate more women and youth into seed…
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UK Minister Lord Ahmad visits ICRISAT, discusses climate action
19.03.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Lord Tariq Ahmad, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth in the UK…
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The European Commission hopes for greater collaboration to improve food and nutrition security
19.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Delegates from the European Commission to Mali expressed interest in exploring new opportunities for…
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