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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gender equality

BY ELIZABETH BRYAN, ALEX DE PINTO, GREG SEYMOUR, PRAPTI BHANDARY AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN Bangladesh’…

(L to R) Mr Gerald M Kusaya, Permanent Secretary of The Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania, releasing the special journal issue during a National Policy Dialogue held in Dodoma, December 2020. Also in the photo Mr Abel Songole (ESRF), Dr Anthony Whitbread ICRISAT and Dr Makarius Mdemu, Ardhi University. Photo: Ardhi University

Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Environmental health
Food security

Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Manage…

Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security
Health

Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health…

Two women-led food processing units opened in India

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…

Scientists convene to reveal new research and tools for combatting a deadly banana disease

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Biodiversity

“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do…

Developing operational guidance for scaling agricultural innovations in One CGIAR

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Food security

Scaling innovations has become a top priority in One CGIAR. This means to enable the…

A farmer with an improved cassava variety

Gift supports Cornell’s Tanzanian cassava efforts

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will…

IITA Director General, Dr Nteranya Sanginga.

IITA strategically positioned to contribute to the One-CGIAR agenda in sub-Saharan Africa

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

IITA embraced the One-CGIAR initiative in the past year because a unified CGIAR will be a more …

An extension agent showing a farmer how to use the Stepwise Smartphone Application.

Ugandan coffee farmers enjoy increased yields through CSA technologies despite COVID-19 pandemic

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The IITA Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Program supports the Ugandan Government in its com…

Nile Tilapia caught in Lake Nasser, Aswan, Egypt

Researchers reveal factors responsible for Tilapia consumption preferences of low-income consumers in Egypt

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Egypt is among the top aquaculture producers globally, and tilapia alone accounts for 47.7% of…

Scientists convene to reveal new research and tools for combatting a deadly banana disease

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security

“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do…

Model: Rising seas may not drive population away from Bangladesh’s vulnerable coast

03.02.21

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY VALERIE MUELLER, ANDREW REID BELL AND HONOR DEARLOVE Climate change-driven sea level rise is…

PIM News: January 2021

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

In this issue, covering January 2021, we are happy to share our recent and upcoming…

Cues to making crop improvement in Africa gender responsive

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

A cluster of activities are helping make The Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of…

Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…

Where is my crop? Data-driven Initiatives for Rice and Cassava Analysis

Big data

Globally there is an explosion of digital data across all sectors of society, and agriculture…

Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor

WorldFish

International Potato Center (CIP)

Big data
Biodiversity
Environmental health
Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti…

Q&A with Luka Wanjohi: Achieving more with less, the power of statistics