Travel from India to Mali, where women like Niruji, Mariam and Temegnush, the faces of farmers who make their living from small plots of land, show us what impact agricultural innovation (both technical and social) has had on their farm and household food
security.
Pictures and text by Alina Paul-Bossuet, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). ICRISAT is a member of the
Consortium of 15 Centres making up the CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Poverty and hunger will reduce if farmers have access to innovations and adopt them. To make
this happen we must work with farmers, governments, national research organizations, NGOs and the private sector.