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A prosperous and nutritionally secure drylands through demand-driven innovation Dr. David Bergvinson, DG, ICRISAT
2 November 2015 USA
SRF
17 Sustainable Development Goals with emphasis on sustainable and equitable food systems
We believe all people have a right to nutritious food and better livelihoods
ICRISAT works in the dryland tropics of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia to:
Our research activities are focused on crops of immense value to the nutrition and economics of the semi-arid tropics – dryland cereals (sorghum and millets) and grain legumes (chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut).
ICRISAT - Our “Why”
WHY LEGUMES?
CLIMATE-HARDY, MICRONUTRIENT-DENSE CEREALS
ICRISAT’s holistic approach to the agricultural R4D value chain
Cross-cutting issues
Mainstreaming nutrition
Empowering women – women are consulted,
involved and supported to lead
Attracting youth to agriculture
Approach for Adoption
Participatory approach and partnering –
working side by side
Building capacity – at a national and local level
Integrating communications - to
build awareness and share knowledge
Monitoring and evaluation – for
feedback and adjustment
Policy support – work closely with
government to encourage the
needed policies
Developing
on-farm
practices and
technologies
Analyzing
key problems
and
opportunitiesManaging
soil and water
Crop
Improvement
& seed Access
Diversifying
Farms
Introducing
processing
Facilitating
market
access
Driving market
development
Managing and Sustaining Crop Collections (ICRISAT)
Morris et al., 2013. PNAS 110: 453-458
Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum – 971 accessions
Unleashing Genomics to Accelerate Genetic Gain
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International Pearl Millet Genome Sequencing Consortium
India
Revolving Seed Fund
Boundarypartners
Leadfarmers
Broadercommunity
ICRISAT has built a large network of delivery partners capable of identifying and equipping lead farmers …
… who rapidly mobilized others in their community to adopt new varieties, thereby motivating seed companies to produce, promote and distribute improved varieties
Science of Delivery and Adoption
Lead farmers have interest and capacity to assist others in community, are influential and trusted, and can take risk with testing new technologies
Boundary partners are community based NGOs & government extension system with aligned goals
Participatory Variety Selection – asking the farm family what they want in a new variety
Swarna-sub1
10
Crop
Improvement
& seed
Five new varieties including ICGV-SM 03517 now called Wamusanga (were released in September 2015.
Soil Mapping as an entry point under Bhoochetana: Our Watershed Story
Village1999
District2006
State2009
Nation2015
• All 37 functional wells• Water availability year • round
Partnering with corporates in various districts across different states in India.
Benefitting over 5 millions of farmers across Karnata
Genesis: Kothapally village, Telangana
ICRISAT is working closely with the Government of India to scale up its learnings
and water
Managing
soil and
water
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