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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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What are kids watching online? How digital food marketing shapes children’s and adolescents’ diets
03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
18.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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An in-depth look at ICRISAT’s engagement in West Africa
27.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Governing Board meeting in Senegal: The strategic plan for 2020 and beyond As members of…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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Genomics delivers ‘super chickpea’ in record time
20.09.19-
Nutrition
Two improved varieties developed through genomics-assisted breeding are headed for Indian farms Indi…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19-
Food security
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Health
A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Breeding future-ready crops: Incorporating key traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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Nane Nane Expo: Tanzanian agricultural show inspires research teams to excel
06.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research programs from the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) showcased their best tech…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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