Deciphering the biology of cassava witches broom disease and examining whether its causal pathogen has speciated over time, across farming systems and host range as a means to design resilient disease management strategies.

Establishing a research agenda to help overcome obstacles to conservation agriculture adoption.

Sustainably intensifying smallholder farmers' wide-row crop production to improve productivity, food, nutrition and income security, and climate change resilience.

Increased food security and safety for smallholder farmers in Zambia, by providing nature based low risk solutions to manage fall armyworm in maize.

Improving food security and resilience of agricultural systems in Timor-Leste to meet the livelihood needs of rural householders.

Establishing a hybrid wheat seed industry in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia. Extending the benefits of hybrid wheat to researchers, wheat breeders, farmers, and consumers.

A project aimed at improving basal stem rot (BSR) disease management and evidence-based disease management in PNG and Solomon Islands.

Dissemination of, and monitoring the effects of, the release of Pod-borer Resistant Cowpea in Nigeria.

Investments in appropriate-scale farm mechanisation in Zimbabwe around mechanised Pfumvudza, and transferring learnings to South Africa.

Identifying opportunities to address technical, nutritional, and social bottlenecks to facilitate wide-row intercropping in the Indo Gangetic Plain.

Characterising novel sources of wheat blast resistance, identification, and molecular mapping of resistance loci/gene(s) and their introgression into varietal development pipelines for rapid dissemination of resistant varieties in Bangladesh.

Empowering smallholders in Ethiopia to maintain and improve current cereal crops, cropping practices, and their livelihood.

Developing sound weed management methods for direct seeded rice under two lowland agroecosystems; and as a result of good weed control in the field, establish the benefit in terms of grain quality.

How Farmers’ Hubs improve the adoption and scaling of new agricultural technologies to smallholder farmers, and opportunities for their more effective use.

This project aimed to release the insect resistant chickpea to help the management of insect pests in a sustainable manner and improve chickpea production in Bangladesh. Although chickpea is a popular food legume in Bangladesh, there are many production constraints responsible for low yield, in particular insect pests. Genetic engineering to develop insect resistant (IR) legumes such as soybean and cowpea varieties with complete resistance to pod borers has been successful. These legumes are now approved for commercial cultivation and consumption.

Distribution/extension pathways for a new pest management technology, based on a form of silica known as synthetic amorphous silica (SAS), to small landholders in Tanzania.

This project aimed to bench-mark farmers’ current pest management practices and pesticide use/misuse in food crops and develop practical recommendations and actions to address current and potential future problems. Rice remains the predominant commodity for domestic food security and export income in Myanmar. However, increases in pesticide-related poisoning in rural communities are now a matter of major national concern in Myanmar, especially where there is illegal cross-border trade in pesticides. 

Increasing income, systems productivity and food security by delivering high-yielding disease and pest resistant mungbean varieties to smallholder farmers

Characterising the populations of Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm, FAW) in crop production systems of South-East Asia and Northern Australia as the first step towards developing long-term management options.

Exploring the feasibility of biochar as a method for removing infected material from oil palm blocks to inform a business case for oil palm derived biochar production in Papua New Guinea.

This project aimed to review progress made through the 'Innovation Platforms' which had been implemented since 2015 to enable scaling out of conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification in the Eastern Gangetic Plains Innovation Platforms (IPs) have been implemented and supported since 2015 to enable scaling out of Conservation Agriculture-Based Sustainable Intensification (CASI) in the EGP (Eastern Gangetic Plains).

This project aimed to see if information and communication technology (ICT)-based extension services could reach farmers, delivering information when and as needed. It aimed to examine the shortcomings of the ICT-based extension services in the Eastern Gangetic Plains and their potential to reach small and women farmers. The SRA could lead to a program that helps to achieve sustainable cropping practices, and overcomes technology adoption barriers.

This SRA aimed to optimise Single-Drop Genomics (SDG) technology to detect food borne pathogens. Nucleic acid point-of-care (POC) bioassays that can be performed on-site with minimal equipment, rapidly and at low cost are in high demand. Agriculture is one area that can benefit from the use of low cost on-site assays. This project is also listed as HORT/2014/027.

Accelerating the adoption of Zero-Till seed drills to reduce crop residue burning and boost sustainable food energy and water security.