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Location: ICRISAT’s Headquarters, Hyderabad India. 

Expiry: Open until ideal candidate is identified

The Global Head of Breeding will have line responsibility for ICRISAT’s crop Breeding Programs based in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. This position will manage the technical components of Breeding Programs with expectations of strengthening ICRISATs breeding capacity through fostering the introduction of processes and guidelines for effective product development.

More than 1 million young people around the world have urged governments to prioritise measures to protect against the ravages of climate breakdown during the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. World leaders are due to meet by video link on Monday to consider how to adapt to the extreme weather, wildfires and floods that have … More A million young people urge governments to prioritise climate crisis

The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) “uniquely fills a gap at the global and regional level, positioning it to continue catalyzing good science across borders,” according to a new report.

Commissioned by the CGIAR Advisory Services Shared Secretariat (CAS Secretariat), the report assesses the research-for-development program’s achievements and operations over the course of its second phase, from 2017-2019.

In a world first, researchers use the composition of stable oxygen isotopes in growth rings in three South Asian tree species to help understand climate variability and the global hydrological cycle.

Trees are living beings and like most living beings they need water to survive. The oxygen in the water we drink also finds its way into the wood of trees, where it can be examined by scientists in the composition of the growth rings.

Beans are great. They are nutritious, they are cheap and they boost the incomes of smallholder farmers. But, for the vast majority of the estimated 200 million Africans that eat them, I doubt that convenient is a word they would associate with this protein staple. Dried grains, the most available and affordable bean product, take … More Nutritious, cheap and… convenient? Capitalising on untapped bean markets
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