ICRISAT News Bulletin - Issue 8

ICRISAT News Bulletin - Issue 8

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ICRISAT News bulletin

News Bulletin

15 December 2022, Issue no. 8

Partnerships | Op-Ed & Blogs | Zero Hunger | Technology and Innovation | Institutional News

International Year of Millets 2023 opening ceremony

Partnerships

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) moderated the technical segment of the opening ceremony of the International Year of Millets (IYM2023) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome on 6 December 2022.

ICRISAT a key actor in opening ceremony of International Year of Millets 2023

Mali's Minister of Environment, Sanitation and Sustainable Development, Mr Modibo Koné, chaired the partnership signing event between ICRISAT, National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Mali’s Institute of Rural Economy, Mali-Météo and Orange-Mali for the use of climate information services by agro-pastoralists in the Great Green Wall area.

Climate information services for agro-pastoralists in Africa's Great Green Wall area

Op-Ed & Blogs

World Soil Day: Opinion piece by Dr Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT.

Soil as carbon sinks

Zero Hunger

Sarvesh Prabhu, a 17-year-old research intern at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), represented India at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta, USA and won the third prize and US $1000 in the biochemistry category for developing a cost-effective bio-insecticide from the leaves of bullock’s heart (Annona reticulata) popularly known as ramphal.

ICRISAT intern wins top awards for developing bio-insecticide

At the prestigious weeklong Market for Agricultural Innovation and Technology (MITA) held in Dakar Senegal, ICRISAT called for increased investments in crops like sorghum, millet and groundnut.

Investing in crops that feed the Sahel

Technology & Innovation

AICCRA project stakeholders evaluate climate-smart technologies at field day events.

Improved climate-smart millet and legumes for Senegal

Call for abstracts

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