On this UN World Soil Day, we are reminded by Dr Himanshu Pathak, Director General of ICRISAT, that healthy soils are not only the foundation of life in rural drylands, but are equally essential to the health and resilience of our cities.
Breakthrough study identifies varieties and key genes to halt sprouting before harvest in groundnut due to unseasonal rains. Unpredictable rains pose a serious threat to groundnut farmers, with pre-harvest sprouting causing significant losses. Spanish groundnut varieties, representing nearly 60% of global production, are particularly vulnerable. Premature germination triggered by early rains can reduce yields by 10–20%, and up to 50%
Faces of Impact – Video Feature Story On a quiet backstreet in Mihango, Kenya, the gentle hum of machinery signals a small revolution underway. Inside a compact workshop stacked with sacks of sorghum, millet, and brown rice, Ms Dora Mummani is quietly rewriting Kenya’s snacking story. Her enterprise, IPOP Africa, stands as a living example of ICRISAT’s mission across the
ICRISAT’s Novel Solar-Powered Water Hyacinth Harvester has now earned a place in the prestigious Top 100 Indian Innovations 2025, published by the India Innovators Association. ICRISAT is restoring freshwater ecosystems using its solar-powered water hyacinth harvester. The recognition of this harvester as one of India’s Top 100 Innovations of 2025 was announced during the launch of the book Top 100 Indian Innovations
SBI Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the State Bank of India, has partnered with the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Raichur, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Agribridge to launch the SMART-CROP project, Sustainable Monitoring and Real-time Tracking for Crop Resilience and Optimal Practices. The launch event, held today in Hyderabad, featured
When crops fail, people move not by choice, but by necessity. As families are displaced by droughts and failed harvests, the pressures do not always stop at national boundaries. In short, hunger has become one of the most powerful forces shaping our century. From the Sahel, the vast semi-arid belt stretching across Africa from Senegal to Sudan and the Horn
The world’s premier institute for dryland agriculture and a globally acclaimed research center, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), has brought its frontier science to Jamaica through a landmark partnership with the CARICOM Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) and SEPROD, the region’s largest food and FMCG distributor. Backed by ICRISAT’s global expertise, the project will fast-track the
A major scientific breakthrough from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) could help groundnut farmers worldwide avert billions in crop losses from stem rot, a disease that slashes yield by up to 80%. In a study published in the Plant Genome journal, ICRISAT and partners mapped 13 genomic regions and 145 candidate genes linked to stem