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WorldFish joined the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit to highlight the essential role of aquatic food systems in a global transformation toward sustainable healthy diets for all. Read more

In a mini-Q&A series published this week and the next, we spoke to several ICARDA scientists to get a better sense of what the future of climate change might look like across the drylands, and to discover how ICARDA is supporting dryland smallholders to adapt.  “The report does not present new information in terms of climate knowledge per se, but

Colombo, August 20, 2021 Agriculture is often blamed for the degradation of our natural environment. But if more biodiversity is integrated into agricultural land we can supply the world’s growing population with a healthy diet while sequestering up to 30% of the total CO2 released into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, according to a new evidence review from the

I was born in Cali – I won’t say how many years ago – and I assure you, if I had not taken part in the development of the City’s Food System Profile, I would have failed the following test… Would you like to try and see how you do?Did you fail as well? Here are the answers: 1.    Over 40%

Key messages: Increasing migration of people out of the world’s dryland areas affects women’s roles in agriculture and related activities, which in turn affects their productivity and gender equity. Women are performing more farm labor in agrarian societies due to the increasing outmigration of men, and this feminization of agricultural labor and management seems to have more drawbacks than benefits

The return on investment in crop genomics research is manifold but to realize the full potential and reap optimum benefits from it, there is a need for enhanced strategic investment in upstream research and enabling an environment for adoption of these technologies at large scale, Dr Rajeev K Varshney opined recently during a virtual talk. Read more.

Consumer survey about millets  The results of the first ever large-scale survey on millet consumption in India has been published, offering government, central and states and the private sector valuable insights into consumer trends to help further mainstream these nutricereals. The results of the 15,500 face-to face survey, coordinated by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),

The consumption of millets can reduce total cholesterol, triacylglycerols (commonly known as triglycerides) and BMI according to a new study analyzing the data of 19 studies, with nearly 900 people. The study was undertaken by five organizations and led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). The results published in Frontiers in Nutrition, brings critically needed