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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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ICRISAT Wins Prestigious UNDP Mahatma Award 2023 for Work in Bundelkhand, India
30.09.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT clinched the 'UNDP Mahatma Award for Biodiversity' for its remarkable contributions to human…
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In Memoriam: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Visionary Agriculture Scientist and ICRISAT Co-Founder, Professor MS Swaminathan
29.09.23As we come to terms with the profound loss of Professor MS Swaminathan, we find…
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India: Odisha Women Entrepreneurs Boost Student Nutrition in 55 Schools with Millet Meals
13.09.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Youth
Over 3,600 students enrolled in 55 government-run schools in the Koraput district of Odisha are…
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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-
Food security
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Health
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-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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-
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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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-
Environmental health
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Food security
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-
Food security
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Nutrition
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-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Food security
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Health
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-
Food security
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Health
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-
Food security
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Nutrition
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-
Health
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Nutrition
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-
Health
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Nutrition
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-
Food security
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Health
EU-APSAN-Mali project makes great strides in first year. More than 80,000 farmers, seed and grain…
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