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Chickpea research in India – Getting to the root of the matter to enhance...

India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of chickpea, accounting for more than a third (66 percent) of world production. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the Indian...

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Chickpea research in Kenya – A boon for the fallow period

“When we first started working on this project in mid-2007, our breeding programme was very weak,” says Paul Kimurto (pictured), Lead Scientist for chickpea research in the Tropical Legumes I (TLI)...

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Chickpea research in Ethiopia – A major boost for food security

Fikre Asnake (pictured)  is a researcher and breeder in both Tropical Legumes I and II projects (TLI and TLII), working at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). He has been leading...

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Chickpeas: Toughening a tough crop for tougher times by healing its Achilles’...

It’s all about water and weakness – or strength. The Greek legend has it that Achilles was dipped into River Styx by his mother, Thetis, in order to make him invulnerable. His heel wasn’t covered by...

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California’s ‘Constant Gardener’, cowpea crusader and catapult constructor

  Jeff Ehlers Our guest today is Jeff Ehlers (pictured), Programme Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jeff’s an old friend of GCP, most familiar to the GCP community in his immediate...

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Cowpeas – uncowed and unbowed: believing that what could be can be, in breeding

  Phil Roberts Like its legume relatives, cowpeas belong to a cluster of crops that are still referred to in some spheres of the crop-breeding world as ‘orphan crops’. This, because they have largely...

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‘Milking’ cowpeas in Mozambique for protein and profit… plus a pox upon pests!

Rogério Chiulele   Today, we travel the Milky Way on a voyage to Mozambique. Our man along the Milky Way is Rogério Marcos Chiulele (pictured), a lecturer at Mozambique’s Universidade Eduardo...

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Peasant lad to leading professor: Paul and his passion for pods

Beyond chickpeas to embrace beans, chickpeas, groundnuts and pigeonpeas As a scientist who comes from the dessicated drylands of the unforgiving Kerio Valley, where severe drought can mean loss of life...

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