Vision and Strategy
Chapter 1- Context
Overview
A Green Revolution for the SAT in the Year of Deserts and Desertification (2006)
A new vision and strategy for ICRISAT
Agriculture in the SAT
West and Central Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa
Asia
Chapter 2- ICRISAT's task environment
The Millennium Development Goals
Background
Summary of the MDGs
Revisiting the CGIAR vision and strategy to 2010
Background
Vision
Goal
Mission
Seven planks
New CGIAR Systemwide priorities to 2015
Background
The new Systemwide priorities
Emergence of the Future Harvest Alliance as a third pillar of the CGIAR
Background
Mission
Objectives
Functions
Principles
Role of the Future Harvest Alliance in the research to development continuum
Implications for ICRISAT's strategy and resource allocation
Chapter 3- Vision, mission, goal and strategy
ICRISAT's vision, mission and goal
Overall strategy
Thematic goals and strategies
Biotechnology
Crop improvement and management
Agro-ecosystem development
Institutions, markets, policy and impacts
Goal and strategy for knowledge sharing
Regional goals and strategies
Western and Central Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa
SAT Asia
Table 1. Alignment of ICRISAT's global research themes with the CGIAR priorities
Table 2. Alignment of ICRISAT's regional research agenda with the CGIAR priorities
Table 3. Achieving the MDGs through ICRISAT's research
Part II
Pursuing the vision and strategy
Chapter 1 - Improving policies and facilitating institutional innovation to support sustainable reduction of poverty and hunger (System priority 5)
Science and Technology Policies and Institutions (Priority 5A)
Improving incentives for technology generation, access and use (Specific goal 3)
Enhancing the structure, conduct and performance of knowledge-intensive institutions (Specific goal 5)
Making international and domestic markets work for the poor (Priority 5B)
Enhanced livelihoods and competitiveness for smallholder producers and food safety for consumers influenced by changes in national and international markets (Specific goal 1)
Improved marketing environment for smallholders by improving the efficiency of domestic markets (Specific goal 2)
Global information on mandate crops and positioning the SAT in the WTO arena
Increasing incomes from mixed crop-livestock systems
Market development and access
Rural institutions and their governance (Priority 5C)
Improving research and development options to reduce rural poverty and vulnerability (Priority 5D)
Chapter 2- Sustaining biodiversity of sorghum, pearl millet, minor millets, groundnut, pigeonpea and chickpea (System priority 1)
Conservation and characterization of staple crops (Priority 1A)
Promoting global conservation and characterization of under-utilized plant genetic resources (Priority 1B)
Chapter 3- Producing more and better food at lower cost through genetic improvements (System priority 2)
Maintaining and enhancing yields and yield potential of food staples (Priority 2A)
Staple food crops of the SAT
Enhance the capacity and efficiency of genetic improvement programs through approaches linking characterization and use (Specific goal 1)
Overview
Wide crosses
Structural and functional genomics
Gene/QTL mapping
Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS)
Genetic engineering
Bioinformatics
Identification and development of pro-poor traits in crops (Specific goal 2)
Sorghum
Pearl millet
Groundnut
Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Networking and capacity building
Improved forage and fodder cultivars
Tolerance to abiotic stresses (Priority 2B)
Drought
Salinity
Enhancing nutritional quality and safety (Priority 2C)
Increase the content of micronutrients in the edible parts of plants through improved biotechnologies and breeding (Specific goal 1)
To reduce the content of constitutive or microbial toxins in selected staples that affect quality, food safety and human health (Specific goal 3)
Chapter 4 - Reducing rural poverty through agricultural diversification and emerging opportunities for high-value commodities and products (System priority 3)
Increasing income from fruit and vegetables ( Priority 3A)
Development of more efficient farming systems
Crop diversification
Enhance production of selected fruit, vegetables and plant products through improvement of farming systems in Asia (Specific goal 2b)
Diversification: Agriculture and energy
Development of sustainable and efficient farming systems
Chapter 5 -- Poverty alleviation and sustainable management of water, land and forest resources (System priority 4)
Integrated land, water, forest and livestock managementat landscape level (Priority 4A)
Background
Strategic thrusts
Improving water productivity (Priority 4C)
Improved management practices that enhance the productivity of water (Specific goal 1)
Sustainable agro-ecological intensification in low and high potential environments (Priority 4D)
Identify social, economic, policy and institutional factors that determine decision-making about managing natural resources in intensive production systems and target interventions accordingly (Specific goal 8)
Impacts of climatic induced risk
Chapter 6- Knowledge management and sharing
Background
Role of ICT as a mediator in knowledge management and sharing
New developments among NARS partners
Global interest in ICT4D and open access systems
ICRISAT's comparative advantage
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