Agrilinks

Before climate change threatened food security, Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution, put shuttle breeding to work. A Pan-Africa group is now replicating that success with peanuts.

A woman’s work is never done, according to a paper that explores whether women have enough time to rest, explore entrepreneurial activities and invest in the future.

As an enigmatic plant disease threatens one of the most important legume crops in Africa, a Pan Africa network of plant breeders collected germplasm and leveraged state-of-the-art genotyping to find...

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut works to connect graduate students with mentors and to foster useful conversations that help a scholar navigate the working world.

This one-hour webinar discusses recent findings on how a shrub that grows wild in the Sahel increases the yield of groundnut and other crops. 

A team of students and researchers in Ghana, Senegal and Uganda validated equipment and created models to predict how groundnut varieties respond to stresses.

A discussion of the recently launched Risk Tool for Ghana, a web-based application adapted from a tool developed by North Carolina State University with data collect in field trials in Ghana.

A team of social scientists discuss findings from their research into women’s time poverty in Northern Ghana and how farmer field schools may introduce interventions that reduce women’s drudgery and create space for them to thrive.  

A discussion about how 9 national programs from across Africa worked with the Peanut Innovation Lab to access the genetic diversity of a crop and empower plant breeders to develop varieties better able to respond to shocks and climate change  

A discussion of recent research and policy briefs from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut project, “Retaining next generation farmers in the Senegalese groundnut basin.”