May 25, 2020 | News, Stories
Easing of lockdown restrictions to revive Indian economy may suggest end of Covid-19 ordeal for agriculture. But gaps in food value chains show fight is far from over. Accustomed to healthy demand, India’s vegetable and fruit growers were in for a rude shock when the...
May 22, 2020 | News, Stories
Cowpea and groundnut are considered ‘golden grains’ for many women farmers in West Africa, as they make decent money processing these pulse grains into oil or popular snacks, while the leaves are good fodder for their animals. Yet legume cultivation has been limited...
May 21, 2020 | News, Stories
This paper uses smallholder households panel data from 2006 to 2014 in three semiarid regions India, makes a key contribution to literature on drought resilience. Understanding why are some farmers able to respond to drought but others are not? How can smallholders...
May 19, 2020 | News, Stories
Located at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)campus in Patancheru, India, the feed technology research platform of the Feed and Forage Development Program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) provides...
May 12, 2020 | News, Stories
Farmers in Mali are improving their incomes , earning better livelihoods and enjoying more fulfilling lives through interventions that provide improved varieties of sorghum as well as training in good agriculture practices. Particularly encouraging are the case...
