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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Developing a five-year Strategic Plan for ICRISAT WCA Research Program
18.09.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leveraging stakeholder partnerships, improving risk management efforts, enhancing farm production sy…
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Seed consortium to bring improved sorghum to Indian farmers post rains
18.09.20-
Gender equality
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Health
To make quality seeds of improved sorghum easily accessible, a consortium of institutions is taking…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon…
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Increased funding support to AVISA to accelerate crop improvement and improve seed delivery systems
11.09.20-
Health
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Nutrition
One year after it began, Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals…
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How long do seeds live? A 100-year experiment in the Arctic to reveal the secret
04.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Genebanks of six global research institutions including ICRISAT have begun a 100-year experiment at …
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
28.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Two pearl millet varieties with 7.0% and 5.4% higher green forage yields as compared to…
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Genetic molecular markers to accelerate genetic gains in crops
28.08.20-
Gender equality
Dr Rajeev Varshney from the Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, ICRISAT, sheds…
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Five-year plan for driving Grain Legume and Dryland Cereals seed delivery systems through commodity value chains
21.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For those seeking to create a win-win for farmers, marketers and consumers of grain legumes…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
21.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
ICRISAT’s efforts in feedstocks development appreciated on World Biofuel Day India has made good p…
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Double harvest for half the effort
21.08.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonpea farmer from Karonga district in Malawi. He relies on the…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
14.08.20-
Food security
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Health
A soil-borne pathogen, new to chickpea growing regions in India, was detected during a real-time…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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Legumes grow money: Success script of seed systems in Malawi
14.08.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
An estimated US$ 40 million per annum, up from US$ 17 million in 2009, was…
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Multi-national company nurtures a Climate-Smart Village, facilitates return of migrant farmers
14.08.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Plummeting groundwater levels and adverse rainfall patterns forced farmers in Buchinelli village in …
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Launch of the ICRISAT Annual Report 2019
07.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
2019 was a year of many firsts… And we are glad to have rolled out…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
High-yielding chickpea and finger millet varieties with yield potential of up to 3 tons per…
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Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed learning sites in India
07.08.20-
Gender equality
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Health
This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000…
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New ICRISAT groundnut varieties to be available from the next season
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two new groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content developed by ICRISAT in association with…
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