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Pigeonpea breeding in eastern and southern Africa: challenges and opportunities
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan [L.] Millspaugh) is an important multipurpose grain legume crop primarily grown in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In Africa, the crop is grown for several purposes ...
New Paradigm to Unlock the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture in the Semiarid Tropics
The twentyfirst
century has presented complex and multiple challenges for humankind and the main challenge is to achieve food
security for all with scarce water resources and increasing land degradation. The world is facing ...
Global agricultural intensification during climate change: a role for genomics
Agriculture is now facing the ‘perfect storm’ of climate change, increasing costs of fertilizer
and rising food demands from a larger and wealthier human population. These factors point
to a global food deficit unless the ...
Putting the Dryland Systems program into action - Program Update, Issue 2
The CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems that is led by ICARDA, is moving forward with a series of implementation workshops, where the research teams will design workplans, set priorities and ...