ICRISAT Alumnus Rajeev Varshney Inducted as a Fellow of the Prestigious Royal Society in London
24 July 2023, England: On 14 July 2023, ICRISAT alumnus Professor Rajeev Varshney was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society
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What’s the link between two-wheel tractors and elephants?
24 July 2023, Africa: CIMMYT principal scientist Frédéric Baudron has two main research interests: making mechanization appropriate to smallholders and biodiversity conservation.
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Agriculture’s Connected Future: Harnessing Generative AI in Farmland
Guest Author: Dr. Ashish Agarwal, Co-Founder & CTO, WRMS 22 July 2023, New Delhi: In today’s rapidly evolving world, technological advancements are revolutionizing
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CREDUCE signs MoU with the Government of Gujarat to provide carbon credit development, monitoring, and trading services
22 July 2023, Ahmedabad: CREDUCE has signed an MoU with the Gujarat Ecology Commission, established by the Government of India, for a project-based
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Nutritious Home-Grown School Meals for Malawian children
20 July 2023, US: Six thousand school children in Kasungu and Lilongwe districts will soon—starting September 2023—eat nutrient-dense biofortified school meals
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City dwellers develop appetite for nutrient-rich grains shunned by Zimbabwe smallholder farmers
20 July 2023, Zimbabwe: While Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers have shown little interest in growing nutrient-rich small grains for years, consumers in the
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Evaluation and Planning Workshop on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
20 July 2023, Asia: The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) Initiative held its Evaluation and Planning Workshop in Dinajpur, Bangladesh,
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Director-General warns that we are at a critical moment in time, in his lecture at Federico II University in Naples
19 July 2023, Italy: FAO Director-General QU Dongyu delivered a Lectio Magistralis at Federico II University in Naples in which he highlighted that we
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Forging scaling partnerships in Latin America: Scaling specialists meet to strengthen future collaborations and learn from past experiences
19 July 2023, Mexico: On May 26, 2023, representatives from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft
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Weather a challenge for consistent carrot supply
18 July 2023, NZ: Carrots, along with potatoes and onions, are the essential products of Pukekohe-based vegetable grower A S Wilcox.
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