David Bergvinson Opening

A prosperous and food secure drylands

ICRISAT Vision, Mission & Values

Mandate

• ICRISAT works in the dryland tropics of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

• Our research activities are focused on crops of immense value to the nutrition and economics of the semi-arid tropics

• Dryland cereals – Sorghum, Pearl Millet, Finger Millet

• Grain legumes – Chickpea, Pigeonpea, Groundnut

Research ProgramsResearch Program

West & Central AfricaResearch Program East & Southern

Africa

Research Program Asia

Research Program Genetic Gains

Research Program Innovation Systems for the

Drylands

Ramadjita Tabo - RPD Moses Siambi - RPD Suhas Wani – RPD Rajeev Varshney - RPD Anthony Whitbread - RPD

Mali Ramadjita Tabo

KenyaMoses Siambi

Crop improvementPooran Gaur

GenebankHari Upadhyaya

Agribusiness & Innovation PlatformKiran Sharma

Niger Malik Ba

MalawiPatrick Okori

Integrated Crop ManagementMamta Sharma

Pre-breedingShivali Sharma

Markets, Institutions, Nutrition & Diversity New recruit

Nigeria Hakeem Ajeigbe

EthiopiaKPC Rao

Policy and ImpactKV Raju

Cell, Molecular Biology & Genetic EngineeringPooja Bhatnagar

Systems Analysis for Climate Smart AgricultureVincent Vadez

Zimbabwe Kizito Mazvimavi

ICRISAT Development CenterSuhas Wani

Genomics & Trait Discovery Rajeev Gupta

Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact & LearningKizito Mazvimavi

Plant QuarantineRajan Sharma

Forward Breeding Eng Hwa Ng

Digital Agriculture & YouthRam Dhulipala

Farm & EngineeringSuresh Pillay

Seed Systems Emmanuel Monyo

Research conducted in ESA & WCA will align with the key areas of Crop Improvement, Integrated Crop Management, Systems Analysis and Policy & impact

Cross-cutting issues Mainstreaming nutrition

Empowering women

Attracting youth to agriculture

Approach for AdoptionParticipatory approach and partnering

Building capacity

Integrating communications

Monitoring and evaluation

Policy support

Integrated Market Oriented Development (IMOD)

Developing on-farmpractices

and technologie

s

Analyzingkey problems

and opportunities Managing

soil and water

CropImprovement

& seed Access

Diversifying

Farms

Introducingprocessing

Facilitating marketaccess

Driving marketdevelopment Crop

improvement

Inputs and farmer services Post-harvest handling and marketsResearch and development

DiscoveryAgronomic

researchFarm

management

Seed & other input

systems

Knowledge exchange

Aggregation, quality

and storage

End-user demandProcessing

Value Chain Approach Guides our Country/State Strategies

Soil Mapping as an entry point under Bhoochetana:Scaling out to millions of farmers and hectares

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 Karnataka

Genesis:Kothapallyvillage, Telangana

ICRISAT is working closely with the Government of India to scale up its learnings

and water

Demand Driven Innovation: Pigeonpea in ESA• Indian grain demand driving trader participation• 25-40% higher local producer prices in ESA following

producer-wholesaler linkages• 15 large-scale dhal processing plants set up in Malawi,

Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique• Production and dissemination of 4250 tons of quality seed

covering about 0.5 million ha in the last 8 years• 80% rise in farmers’ incomes in Kenya, Malawi,

Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda• 40% productivity gains from greater access to superior

seed; in Malawi productivity was 1309 kg/ha

Farmers harvest bumper yields of pigeonpea in Tanzania.

Photo: Philemon Mushi, SARI, Tanzania

12.3

0.5

Livestock per capita

Vikraman et al., in prep

Demand Driven Innovation: Trait Prioritization

“GRAIN type” Sorghum bread

“STOVER type” Livestock feed

Dual purpose sorghum;stover/grain demand

Farmers fields

Global Research Program Genetic Gains

Global Research Program Innovation System for the

Drylands

Regional Research Programs Asia, ESA, WCA

Crop Improvement Crop Management

Breeding Population

Selfing and selection

Advanced breeding lines

Parental lines

Varieties Hybrids

NARS/ Pvt Sector

Genebank

Pre-breeding

Genomics & Trait discovery

Forward Breeding

Marker

Cell, Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering

Seed Systems Agribusiness and Innovation Platform

Systems analysis for Climate Smart Agriculture

Phenotyping

DiversityTrait specific lines

StrategiesLessons

Mapping homologous environments to target varieties / quantity of

seed

MIND analysis to maximize outcomes

Sequencing and Informatics Services

Integrated Research Programs: e.g. Forward Breeding

Facilitating Agri-Business

Smart Foods campaign – millets Highly nutritious Environmentally friendly Climate smart – resilient under extreme weather

conditions Significant yield gap Good opportunities to diversify both diets and on-farm Untapped demand and uses

Agri-Business incubation 74 agribusiness start-ups incubated Facilitated USD 13.2 M as investment to start-ups Facilitated commercialization of 331 agro-technologies

for ICAR institutions; 1218 ventures provided incubation support in these institutions

Digital Agriculture Partnerships with T-Hub, Microsoft, TCS ICT accelerator built on campus First intake of 10 start-ups in Nov 2016

T-Hub Hyderabad

Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) CRPTo concurrently achieve the end-of-program outcomes of:1. Expanded, resilient and inclusive production, value addition, trading and consumption

of grain legumes and dryland cereals in target countries [integrative solutions]; 2. Improved capacity and inclusivity of agrifood system stakeholders to collaboratively

develop innovations that respond to the needs of women, men and youth in GLDC-based livelihoods and value chains [systemic change].

Box 7: Organizing concepts for GLDC CRPThe overarching logic is that improved capacity of the agrifood systems of key cereal andlegume crops will enable coherent production, market and policy innovations that deliverresilience, inclusion, poverty reduction, nutritional security and economic growth.

The organizing principle is that targeted agrifood systems cover the full continuum fromsubsistence agriculture through to commercial agriculture.

The rationale for CRP coverage of prioritized crops is that they share the same institutionalconstraints in the search for functional agrifood systems that deliver both resilience in foodsecurity and opportunities for market-oriented development for smallholder farmers

An overriding hypothesis is the contention that poor women, men and young farmers intarget regions can produce, consume and, critically, benefit from selling their cereal andlegume commodities into increasingly functional, diverse and emerging agricultural valuechains.

The overarching research imperative is to establish whether demand-driven innovations canbe leveraged in creating new and inclusive agrifood system services and policies.

Thank You