Semi-Arid

The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and the West Africa Seed Alliance are working with farmers and processors to address the major barriers and improve the value of products made from sorghum, pearl millet and groundnuts in the northern Nigeria towns of Jigawa and Kano.

Nigerian Project Works to Improve Sales of Products Made From Grains 2011

Leakey has been working with researchers from the International Crop Research Centre for the Semi-Arid Tropics Icrisat as well as the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute to develop and distribute higher-yielding and more drought- and pest-resistant crop varieties.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

Dr. William Dar, director general of the International Crops Research Institute of Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) argues that the application of "good science" is central to combating land degradation.

Dialogue on Emerging Food Systems 2008

Dr. William Dar, director general of the International Crops Research Institute of Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) argues that the application of "good science" is central to combating land degradation.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

The delineations for the Semi-Arid Pampas were derived from Daniele and Natenzon, and linework follows their classification of "Sabanas y Pastizales de la Pampa Semiárida (savannas and grasslands of the semiarid pampas)" region.

Semi-arid Pampas 2008

Map of the Southern Semi-Arid Highlands ecoregion.

Southern Semi-Arid Highlands ecoregion (CEC) 2008

Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India have developed a strategy to keep pearl millet hybrids going indefinitely, even when new diseases arise or conditions change.

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types 1996

For example, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is working to develop cowpea varieties that are drought-resistant and others that can be grown for both food and fodder, and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropic’s (ICRISAT’s) recent work with sorghum and millet focuses on drought adaptation. 10 ICRISAT is also working on mixed cropping of cereals and legumes such as millet and cowpeas.

14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

KEW has a Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Tropics (SEPASAT) project that collates “information about plants from the dry tropics that have been reported to be useful (in any way) but that have not been commercially exploited on a large scale.

14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

The results achieved so far in the Semi-Arid include reducing mortality rates among children less than one year of age.

ReliefWeb - Headlines 2010