Separating groundnuts from the harvested plant Community-based seed production and marketing is being promoted to facilitate the availability of improved groundnut seeds Women farmers preparing a vermicompost pit Women farmers harvesting pearl millet A farmer handpicking pigeonpea pods Roadside threshing of sorghum Day out in the sun: A mound of pearl millet panicles drying A woman farmer gathers dried pearl millet panicles to take home A sorghum heap being put out to dry Drying sorghum panicles A tribal farmer (Lambada) in a sorghum field Scaring birds away from sorghum panicles that are nearly ripe for picking A farmer from Maharashtra in her sorghum field On the pathway to prosperity with a field full of pearl millet A good groundnut harvest means food security, good income and a happy farmer. Photo: L. Vidyasagar, ICRISAT Women clearing a groundnut field of weeds A farmer tending to her groundnut crop A groundnut farm in Telangana, India. Sorting chickpea Women farmer with a bundle of chickpea harvest. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT Chickpea is grown as a source of much needed income, as well as for its ability to add nitrogen to the soil. Photo: ICRISAT Cowpea foundation seed being harvested on-station in Matopos, Zimbabwe A woman farmer takes home her pearl millet bundle of food security. Women inspect pigeonpea at flowering time Women in agriculture Women farmers displaying onions harvested Sorghum is a source of nutrition for mother and child in West Africa. Over half a billion people rely on sorghum as a dietary mainstay Pearl millet is a good source of dietary needs, especially micronutrients. Smallholder farmers’ field day held in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania Ripening pods promise food security and prosperity for this dryland farmer in Kenya. Peanut (or groundnut) is usually grown by women farmers in the semi-arid tropics Earnings from her farm have helped Ms Veronica Simeon, a seed farmer, move into a new house Learning to use drip irrigation In the maize-pigeonpea field of Ms Rose Fratern Muriang in Babati, Tanzania Hand milling of sorghum - An arduous task, mostly carried out by poor women in the drylands. Women play an important role in post-harvest operations Cleaning chickpea Mechanical threshing of pigeonpea