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...
View ArticleChickpea 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)...
View ArticleChickpea 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...
View ArticleChickpeas: 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...
View ArticleCalifornia’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...
View ArticleCowpeas – 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticlePeasant 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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