Inclusiveness for a prosperous and food secure drylands ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT is a member Science with a human face of the CGIAR Consor um The Interna onal Crops Research Ins tute ICRISAT-India ICRISAT-Nigeria for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non- (Headquarters) PMB 3491 profi t, non-poli cal organiza on that conducts Patancheru 502 324 Sabo Bakin Zuwo Road agricultural research for development in Asia Telangana, India Tarauni, Kano, Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array Tel +91 40 30713071 of partners throughout the world. Covering ICRISAT-Liaison Offi ce ICRISAT-Malawi 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 CG Centers Block, NASC Complex Chitedze Agricultural countries, the semi-arid tropics have over Dev Prakash Shastri Marg Research Sta on 2 billion people, of whom 644 million are New Delhi 110 012, India PO Box 1096, Lilongwe, Malawi the poorest of the poor. 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PO Box 776, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Niger (Via Paris) About ICRISAT: www.icrisat.org ICRISAT’s scien fi c informa on: h p://EXPLOREit.icrisat.org ISSN 1017-9933 Order code: IRE 023 146-2014 Science with a human face AnnualReportCover2013_Fgs.indd 1 05/08/2014 12:09:25 PM About ICRISAT Vision A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Mission To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutri on and environmental degrada on in the dryland tropics. The Publica on Team Editor-in-chief and writer Cris na P Bejosano Editorial assistance Smitha Sitaraman, Sreeram Banda, Anjana John, Showkat Rather Graphic design and layout Ch Vengala Reddy, K Chandrasekhara Rao, SK Meeravali Produc on support VVS Satyanarayana, MNR Ramesh Distribu on S Ratnam Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReportCover2013_Fgs.indd 2 05/08/2014 12:09:27 PM Inclusiveness for a prosperous and food secure drylands ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Science with a human face About ICRISAT: www.icrisat.org ICRISAT’s scien fi c informa on: h p://EXPLOREit.icrisat.org AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 1 06/08/2014 12:32:35 PM Cita on: ICRISAT Annual Report 2013. 2014. Interna onal Crops Research Ins tute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Patancheru, Telangana, India: 56 pp. ISSN 1017-9933. Cover photo: Women in Chipata, Zambia shelling groundnuts in the company of friends and family. (S Sridharan, ICRISAT) AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 2 06/08/2014 12:32:36 PM Contents Messages 4 Message from the Director General 5 Message from the Board Chair 6 Research for development highlights Inclusiveness for a prosperous and food secure drylands 10 Watershed management transforms lives 13 Just a small dose will do 16 The power of Green SIM 19 Regaining ground for Malawi’s groundnut 22 West Africa: Time-traveling through future climates 25 Leading the way to rural development in the Sahel About ICRISAT 28 ICRISAT Governing Board 2013 29 ICRISAT senior and collabora ve staff members 33 New bilateral projects funded in 2013 36 Financial summary 38 Capacity strengthening 50 Publica ons 50 Workshops, conferences and mee ngs in 2013 51 ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill 52 EXPLOREit@ICRISAT Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT 53 Awards 2013 54 ICRISAT in the NEWS AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 3 06/08/2014 12:32:45 PM Message from the Director General Inclusiveness is at the core of what we at ICRISAT, to include – to bring innova ve techniques that are along with our partners globally, do to improve suitable to small farm sizes with less resources, to the livelihoods of the people of the drylands – the millions of smallholder farming families in the drylands. poorest, the hungriest, and the most marginalized We include to achieve sustainable growth, enabling people in the world. them to manage the risks they face, un l they are able to stand on their own, and become more resilient. ICRISAT’s target, the dryland tropics, is home to 2 billion people, 650 million of whom are the world’s poorest of the In this annual report, we highlight our 2013 research poor, spread across 55 developing countries in Asia and for development achievements, while refl ec ng on sub-Saharan Africa. People of the drylands are constantly the “I” in our Inclusive Market-Oriented Development plagued by poverty, hunger, food and nutri onal (IMOD) approach – the explicit goal to include insecurity, and lack of empowerment. These regions are the poor along the whole agricultural research for most vulnerable to climate change with very li le rainfall, development (R4D) chain. degraded soils and poor social infrastructure. During the year, one of the highpoints of our ac vi es Being the only global agricultural research for was the visit of Mr Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & development center focused on serving the dryland Melinda Gates Founda on, to the ICRISAT headquarters tropics, our commitment at ICRISAT is to put the for the fi rst me, to gain a be er apprecia on of the people of these marginalized regions of the world fi rst founda on’s R4D investments to the ins tute. During – empowering them to gain access to resources and to his visit, Mr Gates accepted to become the fi rst ICRISAT create opportuni es, to li their living standards, and to Ambassador of Goodwill, to further champion our enable them to live fulfi lling lives. mission to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutri on and environmental degrada on in the drylands. This 2013, we chose ‘inclusiveness’ as our theme – in the context of being both a process and a goal. In this We are proud to say that in the same year, we have report, we illustrate how we innovate to include the been honored with the acceptance of Dr APJ Abdul poor, and the many elements we consider in pursuing Kalam, renowned scien st and 11th President of India, inclusive agricultural research for development. and Rt Hon James Bolger, former Prime Minister of New 4 Zealand to be named ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill, Our inclusive strategy seeks to enable the dryland joining Mr Gates. poor, par cularly the women, to par cipate, rather than be sidelined, in the development process. Our ICRISAT will con nue to be heavily engaged in inclusive stories of inclusiveness show how the poor and other development, working along with the dryland poor as marginalized sectors are included in building solu ons we strive to contribute to real improvements in their – going past just interac ng and asking them what they lives, as illustrated in the stories in this report. We will need, but truly partnering with and le ng them take a be fi ne-tuning our eff orts and strategies, improving our real role, and a sense of ownership of the innova ons. eff ec veness, and strengthening our partnerships. We innovate to harness markets specifi cally to benefi t “Inclusiveness” – a process and a goal – will always the poor, carrying them from impoverished subsistence be at the core of our vision for a prosperous and food farming to prosperous market orienta on. We innovate secure drylands. William D. Dar Director General AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 4 06/08/2014 12:32:51 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Message from the Board Chair Globally, many people are excluded from – where smallholder farmers in ICRISAT’s target development because of their poverty, countries have refi ned the techniques for the gender, ethnicity, age, or disability. The applica on of small doses of fer lizer in the right eff ects of such exclusion are staggering and are place at the right me, combined with a warrantage deepening inequality across the world, par cularly system; the Green SIM story on appropriate in the drylands – home to the world’s poorest and knowledge and ICT tools for smallholder farmers; most marginalized people. The solu ons can only and regaining ground for Malawi’s groundnuts be realized if all groups of people work together through crop improvement, aff ordable tes ng, and and contribute to create the opportuni es, share seed system. the benefi ts of development, and par cipate in Dr Kanayo Nwanze, President of the International decision-making. Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), said The year 2013 marked ICRISAT’s 41st year of “I have seen the miracles that take place when existence, embracing the theme “inclusiveness.” As we give farmers the tools to enhance existing Chair of the Governing Board, I am very proud of technologies,” when talking about ICRISAT’s ICRISAT’s commitment to innovate to include. microdosing program. This tool has tremendously We believe that the eradica on of poverty and hunger impacted millions of smallholder farmers’ through sustainable and inclusive agricultural research livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa with dramatic for development (R4D) greatly depends on how we improvements in yields. support the drylands, where many people depend This is just one example of how appropriate directly upon a highly variable natural resource base technologies and innova ons can ensure that the for their livelihoods. We can also learn a lot from benefi ts of AR4D reach the end users – in this the people living in the drylands, as their strategies case, the smallholder farmers – and when they are for resilience and their tradi onal and indigenous included in building the solu ons they can claim knowledge are a largely untapped resource. their own. Mainstreaming “inclusiveness” along the whole R4D The Governing Board will always be a constant 5 chain will give windows of opportunity for the 2 source of guidance and encouragement to fuel the billion people in the dryland tropics to escape from enthusiasm of the highly dedicated and mo vated poverty and hunger. In this annual report, we have ICRISAT team – in a journey of inclusiveness, stories of innova ons designed for the poor, and through change, growth, stronger partnerships, solu ons built with the poor. global recogni on, and enhanced agricultural Some excellent examples featured in this annual impacts for the benefi t of the dryland poor of report are: the fer lizer microdosing approach the world. Nigel Poole Chair, Governing Board AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 5 06/08/2014 12:32:54 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Research for development highlights The year 2013 was a rewarding and fulfi lling year ICRISAT sorghum lines were developed with high for ICRISAT in terms of scien fi c contribu ons biomass and resistance to lodging, and seven lines and impacts on the lives of the smallholder tolerant to shoot fl y were developed. farmers in the dryland tropics of Asia and sub- Saharan Africa. Database on iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) Presented below are some of the highlights of the in sorghum germplasm research for development (R4D) ac vi es that ICRISAT accomplished during 2013, with Inclusive ICRISAT has evaluated a large number of landraces Market-Oriented Development (IMOD) as the (2246), hybrid parents (>500 B-lines and 100 unifying framework, under four strategic thrust R-lines), breeding lines and commercial sorghum areas: Resilient Dryland System; Markets, Ins tu ons cul vars (67) over the years (2005 to 2011) for and Policies; Grain Legumes; and Dryland Cereals. grain Fe and Zn concentra ons and important ICRISAT is also leading two CGIAR Research Programs agronomic traits. In 2013, a database on Fe and Zn – Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, and is involved concentra on in sorghum germplasm was made as a partner Center in fi ve other CGIAR Research available in the public domain (h p://hdl.handle. Programs on: Dryland Systems; Policies, Ins tu ons net/11038/10081) for use by global sorghum and Markets; Agriculture for Nutri on and Health; researchers. For pearl millet, ICRISAT already Water, Land and Ecosystems; and Climate Change, released a publica on in 2009 providing important Agriculture and Food Security. agronomic traits for 99 designated seed parents (B-lines). This publica on has been made available open access (h p://ec2-50-19-248-237.compute-1. 6 Crop improvement amazonaws.com/1330/1/157_2009_Morphological_ More than 905 advanced breeding lines/varie es Characteris cs.pdf). developed by ICRISAT and partners were included in Na onal Performance Trials to be evaluated for local adapta on and for possible release as improved Genome sequencing cul vars for adop on by farmers. This is to make of 90 chickpea lines quality seed of improved varie es more available An ICRISAT-led global to farmers. ICRISAT and partners (NARS scien sts research team has and extension staff , including NGOs and farmers’ completed high-quality groups), have also produced large quan es of sequencing of not one breeder, founda on, cer fi ed and quality-declared/ but ninety genomes truthfully-labelled seed (total of 72,688.8 tons) for of chickpea (Nature dissemina on to the farming community. Biotechnology, 31: 240- During 2013, NARS partners have released fi ve 246). The chickpea genome sequencing project was chickpea, one groundnut, and two pearl millet undertaken by the Interna onal Chickpea Genome varie es using ICRISAT germplasm and/or breeding Sequencing Consor um (ICGSC) led by ICRISAT, lines. Thirteen heat-tolerant pearl millet breeding the University of California-Davis (USA), and BGI- lines were developed with high seed set at more than Shenzhen (China) with involvement of key na onal 42C. Twelve ICRISAT pearl millet lines resistant to partners in India, USA, Canada, Spain, Australia, blast were made available to NARS breeders. Eight Germany and the Czech Republic. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 6 06/08/2014 12:32:55 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Germplasm conserva on project farmers increasing sorghum grain yields by 35-52% and fodder yields by 27-34% in three ICRISAT is conserving 120,454 accessions in its gene years. A new seed consor um was also formed to banks in fi ve countries across Africa and Asia – at develop a sustainable seed system for easy access its headquarters in India and its African loca ons in and availability to farmers of improved sorghum Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, and Niger. A total of 6863 seed for the postrainy season. Growing dual-purpose germplasm lines were distributed by the ICRISAT gene postrainy-season sorghum cul vars has provided banks during 2013. farmers in the drought-aff ected Marathwada and In 2013, ICRISAT shipped 104,000 germplasm samples Western Maharashtra regions with higher grain yields to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway for and be er fodder quality and quan ty. conserva on as a duplicate set of germplasm. This includes samples of sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, Natural resource pigeonpea, groundnut and six small millets. management Tropical Legumes II project Phase 2 of the Bhoochetana (land rejuvena on) ini a ve in In Malawi’s Mchinji area, the Tropical Legumes II the state of Karnataka, India was project organized farmers into groups to receive start- launched in 2013. This followed up groundnut seed from ICRISAT to set up community the success of the fi rst 4-year seed banks, leading to the spread of improved phase, a partnership between ICRISAT and the varie es in the communi es. In 2013, the ac vity is state government to help make small farms more currently running in three districts and boasts of 174 produc ve, diverse and resilient to drought, using seed banks with about 8,000 farmers. science-based, low-cost and sustainable solu ons. In India, new chickpea and pigeonpea varie es This program is a good example of how to apply have been adopted in several districts of Andhra agricultural R4D to smallholder farms on a large scale. Pradesh and Karnataka, replacing the old variety Phase 2 aims at strengthening Bhoochetana’s impact 7 with improved cul vars. The project achieved 85% across rainfed and irrigated lands in the 30 districts of area replacement of old varie es with new ones in Karnataka, increasing yields by a further 20%. Despite Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh, leading to poor rains in 2011, three million smallholder farmers a doubling of produc vity – from 750 to 1500 kg/ across the 30 districts of Karnataka saw their yields ha during the past 7 years with direct benefi ts to increase up to 66%, bringing in extra profi ts of US$ approximately 40,000 smallholder farmers. To date, 130 million. the total legume seed produced by partners through the project stands at 222,531 MT. Gender research strategy HOPE (Harnessing Opportuni es In 2013, gender integra on into research has been formalized in a Gender Research Strategy. A few for Produc vity Enhancement) project examples of ICRISAT’s gender focus in R4D are: (1) In Maharashtra, India the HOPE project’s fi ve-point Access to knowledge and income opportuni es – in package of prac ces 2013, 49% of 3,764 farmers engaged in pigeonpea (in-situ moisture seed produc on under the Irish Aid-supported conserva on, improved Malawi Seed Industry Development Programme cul vars, wide row were women, a 13% increase from the previous spacing, use of year; (2) Be er understanding of women’s role fer lizers and insect- in family nutri on for be er policies through the pest management) Village Dynamics Studies in South Asia (VDSA); (3) with local partners Training and par cipatory research for be er family has seen over 25,000 nutri on under the AnBeJigi project in Mali, where AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 7 06/08/2014 12:33:05 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 women have adopted nutri ous whole grain recipes studies aim to establish the contribu on of the using local produce, tested during collec ve cooking ins tute’s R4D in achieving ins tu onal outcomes events; and (4) Adop on of improved crop varie es – self-suffi ciency, intensifi ca on, diversifi ca on, to ease women’s workload, like the CG7 groundnut resilience, nutri on and health, capacity building and variety in Malawi, a bunch type that is easier to gender perspec ves. harvest than tradi onal spreading varie es. Agri-business incuba on Integra ng nutri on In 2013, the Agri-Business Incuba on (ABI) program Integra ng nutri on is an essen al cross-cu ng under the Agribusiness and Innova on Pla orm theme in ICRISAT’s holis c approach to R4D. ICRISAT (AIP) celebrated its 10th anniversary highligh ng its works with smallholder farmers to grow more success as a proven model in agribusiness incuba on resilient, nutri ous and diverse food. Our R4D replicated in diff erent loca ons in India, and scaled- solu ons in the fi ght against malnutri on include: up to a global level, especially in Africa and Asia, development of micronutrient-rich biofor fi ed through partnership with various R4D agencies. crop varie es; appropriate grain prepara on and To date, it has supported over 200 agribusiness processing to improve nutri on value in Mali; ventures, benefi ted more than 500,000 farmers in promo ng the cul va on of legumes for a more Andhra Pradesh and neighboring states in India, diversifi ed diet helps improve the family’s nutri on facilitated the commercializa on of more than 100 in Malawi; and par cipatory afl atoxin awareness agro-technologies, and extended its handholding programs, and training in the management of and and mentoring services to 22 Business Planning access to afl atoxin-resistant seeds in Mali. and Development units set up under the Na onal In June 2013, world leaders came together to sign Agricultural Innova on Project (NAIP) under the a global pact in the fi ght against malnutri on at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Nutri on for Growth Summit co-hosted by Bri sh More recently, ABI has taken its co-business 8 Prime Minister David Cameron. ICRISAT’s work with incuba on services to Africa, mentoring and smallholder farmers to handholding six value chain agribusiness innova on grow more resilient, and incuba on consor a spread across fi ve countries diverse and nutri ous food in Ghana, Mali, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. This and the ins tute’s focus is being done in partnership with the Forum for on gender was featured Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) as part of the in a photo slideshow Universi es, Businesses and Research in Agricultural published on BBC (h p:// Innova on (UniBRAIN) project. www.bbc.com/news/ world-22820185) in line with this historic event. ICRISAT’s data management policy and implementa on guidelines Impact assessment studies In close sync with the CGIAR Open Access and Data Four impact assessment studies were completed in Management Policy approved by the Consor um 2013. This included studies on: (1) Impact of fer lizer Governing Board in 2013, ICRISAT has developed a microdosing research and development in semi- Data Management Policy to mainstream be er data arid Zimbabwe; (2) Impact assessment of Lucheba management, for quality data sharing and making it watershed management in China; (3) Assessment open access for public use. This policy promotes data of the impact of improved pigeonpea research and management prac ces across the Ins tute and helps development in Tanzania; and (4) Socio-economic to bring in the required cultural shi among staff impacts of groundnut research and development to share research data and make it open access for investments in Malawi. ICRISAT’s impact assessment future use. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 8 06/08/2014 12:33:11 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Increased use of Open Access data pla orms non-ISI/Thomson), 12 books, 54 book chapters and several others, giving an average of 2.75 publica ons ICRISAT and partner scien sts are making datasets per scien st (1.27 publica ons in Thomson Scien fi c available to the global community. Scien sts upload Indexed journals per scien st and an average of their validated published and unpublished data 1.48 publica ons in non-Thomson Scien fi c Indexed into Dataverse pla orm. To date, 464 data fi les are journals). Management will con nue to encourage available in Dataverse (h p://dataverse.icrisat.org/ all scien sts to publish the results of their research in dvn/). The archive is witnessing a gradual increase high quality journals in combina on with open access in usage. This archive complies with all modern outlets. protocols and iden fi er systems. Scien fi c publica ons ICRISAT has a strong scien fi c publica on record (h p://oar.icrisat.org/). In 2013, ICRISAT scien sts produced 364 publica ons, which include 221 peer- CL Laxmipathi Gowda reviewed journal ar cles (168 ISI/Thomson and 53 Deputy Director General - Research 9 Photo: S Sridharan, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 9 06/08/2014 12:33:13 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Watershed management transforms lives An inclusive and par cipatory integrated watershed management program has brought prosperity to the small rainfed village of Lucheba, China. Village roads constructed through collec ve ac on und 10 Un l a decade ago, the steep slopes of the ICRISAT’s interven ons through its par cipatory Lucheba watershed were hot spots of poverty integrated watershed management program (IWMP) and malnutri on. Agriculture in this rainfed have changed the lives of hundreds of smallholder area was a challenge for smallholder farmers, with farmers and their families in the small village of scarce water supply compounded by degraded Lucheba. natural resources, low crop yields, and lack of access to roads and market. Unlocking the poten al of rainfed areas Fast forward to 2013 – the watershed area is now For the people of Lucheba, change began a decade covered with lush green vegeta on. The old and ago, when ICRISAT and the provincial government dilapidated houses that once stood in the village brought to the village the results of its long years square have been transformed into brand new of research for development work on integrated concrete houses with big courtyards and gates, management of natural resources for sustainable equipped with modern appliances and gadgets. rainfed agriculture. In partnership with the Guizhou “We started using harvested rainwater for cul va on, Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), the na onal and everything just changed,” said Mr Peng Fay Ou, a agricultural research system, local communi es, and farmer with a one hectare landholding in the Lucheba farm families, ICRISAT led a consor um of partners watershed. With seven members in the family, he in implemen ng the Lucheba watershed program used to earn 3,000 RMB (US$ 500) per year. Now supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) his agricultural income has increased three folds, from 2003 to 2006. to 10,000 RMB (US$ 1,650) per year, largely due to Focused on reducing poverty and land degrada on by growing vegetables thrice in a year using harvested adop ng an inclusive, farmer par cipatory approach, rainwater. the watershed management program introduced into AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 10 06/08/2014 12:33:34 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 An investment of US$ 472,191 in the Lucheba watershed development program has gained a net present value of US$ 14.7 million, and 31.14 benefi t-cost ra o at 20% internal rate of return (IRR). Photo: ICRISAT on under the Lucheba watershed program. 11 the small village various interven ons such as soil and More than 260 biogas plants were set up in the water management, improved cropping systems, crop village households to reduce pressure on fuel wood diversifi ca on, integrated nutrient management, and and to protect the forests. The whole village now has integrated pest management prac ces, along with biogas-powered street ligh ng. other income-genera ng microenterprises such as Farmers with support from the project, their poultry and pig rearing. own contribu on and par al support from Throughout the program's dura on, the communi es the government, constructed a 4.8 km village were involved and played an ac ve part, from approach road from the main road to facilitate iden fi ca on of constraints and interven ons, the transporta on of the vegetables produced implementa on, monitoring and evalua on, to to the markets. Later, a 6 km-long fi eld road was impact assessment. constructed with support from the government. As an entry point ac vity, the community came together in implemen ng two drinking water schemes Clear and sustained impacts by harves ng water from natural springs, and In 2013, seven years a er the comple on of the transpor ng the water through pipes in the villages. ADB-supported watershed program implemented Throughout the program, the community undertook in 2003-2006, ICRISAT revisited the small village the construc on of 151 rainwater harves ng of Lucheba in a study tled “Impact Assessment structures-cum-irriga on water storage tanks, plan ng of Lucheba Watershed, China” targeted to gain a of 133,600 trees on 100 ha of wasteland, construc on fair understanding of the extent of impact of the of an approach road, and crop diversifi ca on with watershed program at the village level involving the high-value vegetable crops in the watershed. whole community. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 11 06/08/2014 12:33:36 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Now managed by farmers and other community members, the Lucheba watershed program has clearly demonstrated the long-term sustainability of an inclusive development interven on in terms of crop produc vity, women empowerment and poverty eradica on. While a large number of studies have pinned watershed development program as among the most appropriate strategies for the development of rainfed agriculture ecosystem, few have been as successful A woman farmer and sustainable as the Lucheba watershed program. enjoying the sight of her lush fi eld of Photo: ICRISAT vegetables. Engaging people, inclusive growth “In all 1,347 people residing in the 43 km2 area with Mrs Song Pangying is now a micro-entrepreneur. 340 households in 6 village farmers’ groups have While her husband works away on their one hectare benefi ted immensely in terms of improved quality land, Mrs Song runs a small grocery shop in another of life, be er environment, and increased incomes,” village. The family’s investments have extended to said Mr Yang, village chief of Lucheba. poultry raising. “Our farmers are now well trained with new Mrs Song’s daughter-in-law, Mrs Caiyang Ju is 22 years technologies, and are able to cope be er in any old, cooks for the family and takes care of the home in adverse situa on, like low market prices. The change the absence of her mother-in-law. She plans to expand in the village happened when our farmers started to vegetable cul va on to earn more income for the growing vegetables instead of rice – farmers now family for a be er life. harvest rainwater, and are highly aware of water-use “We wanted to move to ci es in search of be er effi ciency,” Mr Yang added. opportuni es. Back then, money was very hard to The impact assessment study confi rms that the come by. But now due to the watershed program we Lucheba watershed model holds promise as an are able to iden fy new ways to earn more,” says Mrs appropriate approach for improving the natural Wang Xianhui, women group leader in Lucheba. “Our resource base and enhancing livelihood op ons, and 12 village environment is cleaner than in the ci es.” that it can be replicated in other dryland ecosystems in China. The outcomes of the case study also Economic transforma on in Lucheba suggest that scien sts and policy makers of technical and ins tu onal arrangements for watershed ▪ Increased average household land area with development programs should have an in-depth irriga on by 94%; reduced rainfed area by 34%. understanding of the socio-economic and ecological ▪ Area with high-value crops, like vegetables, of linkages and stakeholders’ percep ons for long term average household increased from improved shared watershed management. water conserva on measures ▪ Yield levels of crops increased by 6-19% in rice and The Lucheba watershed program has indeed shown maize, and 32-673% for various vegetables. that building solu ons and making decisions together ▪ Farm-based employment and income shows that bring las ng benefi ts for all. diversifi ca on in favor of high-value vegetable crops has increased labor earning by 82%. ▪ Farm income from crops, largely vegetables, increased by 192%. ▪ Total household income rose by 32%. ▪ Crop diversifi ca on signifi cantly improved household food availability/security, shi ing dietary pa erns in favor of fi sh, meat, milk and eggs, while retaining cereal consump on. ▪ The Lucheba watershed development program cost of US$ 472,191 has gained a net present value of US$ 14.7 million, and benefi t-cost ra o of 31.14 at Branded high-value crops being collected at a farmer’s house in 20% internal rate of return (IRR) on investment. the Lucheba watershed. The big house was built out of income earned from produce sold from the plots in the watershed. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 12 06/08/2014 12:33:36 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Photo: M Moyo, ICRISAT Philip Tshuma and his family proudly show extension agents their sorghum and pearl millet fi elds with microdosing applica on. Just a small dose 13 will do In Zimbabwe, a bo le cap’s worth technique developed by ICRISAT and its partners, of fer lizer applied in the right place using a bo le cap system so farmers can measure out small, aff ordable amounts of fer lizer.” Dr Nwanze at the right me – is leading to believes that there is huge poten al to increase yields drama c improvements in yields and using low-cost and exis ng technologies. incomes of smallholder farmers. Escaping subsistence farming Crop yields in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe have Inclusiveness is about bringing life-changing been declining steadily over the years, mainly due innova ons to millions of smallholder farming to a decline in soil fer lity and droughts. Research families who have the biggest needs – techniques results show that between 75 and 90% of cropped that are adapted to smallholder, resource-poor land in Zimbabwe is unfer lized each season, and farmers. average applica on rates for nitrogen fer lizer by The President of the Interna onal Fund for smallholder farmers is only 3 kg per hectare. Agricultural Development (IFAD) Dr Kanayo Nwanze, But how can resource-poor farmers get the highest speaking at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week returns from the fer lizer quan es they are able opening ceremony in Accra, Ghana, said “We have to aff ord? Resource poor farmers are likely to adopt seen good results from a fer lizer microdosing lower rates as these are what they can aff ord. With T AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 13 06/08/2014 12:33:42 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 The picture painted by the results – a sustainable By 2012, close to 300,000 farmers were and inclusive growth within the par cipa ng prac sing the technology and have districts, proving that innova ons designed for the achieved produc vity gains of up to poor farmers help them move from subsistence to progressive farming. 100%. This interven on has improved Promo on of microdosing has raised the adop on of household food security, and saved the technique by about 30%. In Zimbabwe’s Natural US$ 7 million in food imports annually. Region IV, microdosing increased maize yields by 80% under condi ons experienced in 2012 in low rainfall regions of the country. posi ve results, they will be encouraged to invest more in fer lizer, which will trigger a process of By 2013, adop on of microdosing technology by movement from impoverished subsistence farming smallholder farmers in the semi-arid regions of to prosperous market-oriented farming. Zimbabwe had generated a net present value (NPV) of US$ 26 million with an internal rate of return (IRR) Since 2003, ICRISAT has been promo ng microdosing of 36%. At the household level, survey results show – targeted applica on of small, aff ordable quan es that microdosing has contributed to intensifi ca on of fer lizer directly where the plant needs it – at by facilita ng use of fer lizer, while enhancing food the roots. Farmers apply 6 g doses of fer lizer, suffi ciency by genera ng higher yields in maize and about a full bo le cap of ammonium nitrate small grains. (AN) fer lizer per two to four plants, in the hole where the seed is placed at the me of plan ng. Microdosing adop on has been enhanced by fer lizer Microdosing is equal to about 8-10 kg of nitrogen per subsidies, but promo on has had a large impact hectare, approximately a fi h of the recommended dis nct from the eff ect of fer lizer subsidies. By applica on rate. increasing household cereal yield and contribu ng to food security, microdosing has supported Partners and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) 14 women’s empowerment within male or joint-headed began establishing on-farm trials across Zimbabwe households. Households in wards that received in 2004 to demonstrate the microdosing approach. microdosing training report higher levels of food In each trial, the farmer selected a cereal crop, and security, consistent with higher food yields. compared results with and without fertilizer. Despite poorer than average rains during the 2005- An inclusive and par cipatory approach 2006 season, grain yield increases of 30-50% were recorded in areas with widespread adop on of Since 2003, microdosing implementa on in microdosing, and almost every farmer achieved a Zimbabwe has involved training, extension and signifi cant yield gain. During this same season, over promo on facilitated under a consor um of donors, 170,000 households increased cereal produc on working with nine interna onal NGOs and a number levels by an es mated 40,000 tonnes, signifi cantly of local NGOs. improving household food security. During 2003-2006, more than 160,000 resource poor households received at least 25 kg of nitrogen Documen ng impacts fer lizer and a simple fl yer in the vernacular In 2013, an extensive impact assessment study tled explaining how to apply the fer lizer to a cereal “Impact of Fer lizer Microdosing Research and crop. This was followed by ICRISAT linking with the Development in semi-arid Zimbabwe” was conducted Zimbabwe Fer liser Company (ZFC), from which 12 to assess and document the impacts of microdosing trade stores received small fer lizer packs to sell to research and technology transfer undertaken by farmers. ICRISAT and partners in eight districts of the country. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 14 06/08/2014 12:33:42 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Photos: ICRISAT Microdosing uses a bo le capful of fer lizer per three plants. 15 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and lead inves gator of the impact assessment study. “Sustaining and expanding the benefi ts of microdosing technology will require eff orts to ensure that private agro-dealers are able to stock the small fer lizer packs in a mely manner and to package it in a manner that smallholder farmers fi nd useful,” he Un l 2013, ICRISAT con nued to conduct microdosing said. “This is complicated by the fi nancial capaci es training to diff erent stakeholders, now outside of agro-dealers and by diffi culty in projec ng fer lizer the consor um. More than 650 lead farmers, 241 demand, which varies with rainfall. government extension offi cers and 119 extension “We also need to work on extending training to offi cers from 16 local and interna onal NGOs have underserved areas and to train extension personnel been trained. in low-rainfall areas. Female-headed households The way forward were signifi cantly less likely to adopt microdosing than others, possibly refl ec ng labor shortages or “Our impact assessment study shows that diffi cul es accessing fer lizer. Understanding the smallholder farmers’ investment in microdosing has par cular constraints that female farmers face really unlocked the power of chemical fer lizers in and adap ng the methods or the training to their some of the low-rainfall areas of Zimbabwe,” said circumstances could also help extend adop on of the Dr Alex Winter-Nelson, Agricultural Economist, technique.” AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 15 06/08/2014 12:33:47 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Photo: KSI, ICRISAT Sheri Manjula, a woman farmer from Telangana, India, receiving a voice message on weather forecast from her Green SIM-powered mobile phone. 16 The power of “Last me, our whole groundnut crop was destroyed due to unexpected rain, but this Green SIM season a voice message received on my mobile phone on weather forecast saved our crop as we were able to harvest three days ahead of the original Digital inclusion through Green harvest date. It saved us our season-long eff orts and hard work,” said Chandrakala, a woman farmer from SIM brings the best of aff ordable Addakal, Mahbubnagar district in Telangana, India. technology and knowledge solu ons “We used to take advice and recommenda ons from at the doorstep of smallholder agricultural input dealers and received mixed results. But now with ICRISAT’s informa on advisory services farmers, helping them build a we are ge ng precise applica on recommenda ons resilient and food secure future. in our farms. It saves money and gives us be er yield and income,” says Narmadamma, another woman farmer from Addakal. Their stories illustrate the importance of inclusiveness – of bringing the best of aff ordable technology and knowledge solu ons at the doorstep of smallholder farmers through appropriate informa on and communica ons technology (ICT)-mediated tools and value chain approaches, anchored on public-private partnerships. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 16 06/08/2014 12:33:50 PM IICCRRIISSAATT AAnnnnuuaall RReeppoorrtt 22001133 The Green SIM Chandrakala and Narmadamma are just two of the 40,000 farmers in 171 villages of the Indian states of Telangana and Karnataka benefi ng from the Green SIM project of ICRISAT and its partners. Green SIM provides personalized and generic advisory services on correc ng soil health defi ciencies, fer lizer and pes cide recommenda ons, credit and insurance advice, informa on on availability of quality agricultural inputs, weather, market and nutri on advisories, livestock and 16 other categories in local dialects. The Green SIM project is unique, as it is a sustainable Green SIM’s Krishi Gyan Sagar, an android-based ICT business model for agriculture and rural applica on that provides personalized agro-advisories to development, which has gained enormous success smallholder farmers. in just less than one year, se ng it apart from other mobile phone or tablet agro-advisory services. It was launched in 2013 by ICRISAT’s Center of Excellence in ICT Innova ons for Agriculture, and has two systems Limited and Bhar Airtel developed this pla orm. – the Krishi Gyan Sagar and the Krishi Vani. Green SIM farmers get value-added agro-advisory services in addi on to the regular services they Krishi Gyan Sagar, an android-based applica on, receive from a regular SIM card. gives personalized advisory to smallholder farmers through the concept of info-entrepreneurs (farm Both systems were piloted in three diff erent facilitators/para extension workers), and features an experimental hubs in partnership with the intelligent decision support and monitoring system. Government of Karnataka in that state; with the Rural 17 Development Trust, a nongovernment organiza on, The applica on makes use of geographic informa on in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh; and with the Adarsha system (GIS) to provide soil fer lity maps. Farm Mahila Samaikya, a women federa on organiza on, facilitators can register farmers in a module with Mahbubnagar, Telangana. basic informa on on his/her landholding and cropping prac ces. In the state of Karnataka, it is backed by a soil test-based fer lizer recommenda on Digital inclusion database for each taluk (a group of villages), linked The primary goal of the Green SIM system is to with the ICRISAT-Karnataka program on Bhoochetana promote digital inclusion by providing resource-poor (land rejuvena on). The applica on was designed smallholder farmers with access to informa on, and and developed by ICRISAT and Nunc Systems (a enabling them to eff ec vely use appropriate tools private so ware and applica on development and knowledge to signifi cantly raise their agricultural organiza on). produc vity, be more resilient to shocks, and seize Krishi Vani is a mobile phone/phablet (phone with opportuni es to increase their incomes. tablet) based applica on. Through this applica on, It was also in response to the o en inadequate generic advisories are delivered to groups of public-funded agricultural extension, in terms farmers in a loca on through the mobile phone/ of infrastructure and human resources, to meet phablet enabled by the Green SIM. The services are the needs of smallholder farmers. There is just in the form of free voice messages – 35 per week one Agricultural Extension Offi cer for every 2000 per farmer in 16 categories delivered in mul ple farmers in India, and on average a farmer receives languages. ICRISAT along with the Indian Farmers less than 40 minutes of advice a year from the Fer liser Coopera ve Limited (IFFCO) - Kisan Sanchar offi cer. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 17 06/08/2014 12:33:57 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 The earlier array of ICT tools (mostly internet based Farm facilitators in the pilot villages have now or computer mediated) and services through village emerged as info-entrepreneurs, living off the knowledge centers have limita ons in reaching out revenues from Green SIM distribu on to farmers. to the poorer and more remote regions of India. Airtel agreed to pay ` 10 (US$ 0.166) to farm Now the Green SIM system ensures that smallholder facilitators for each SIM card distributed, and farmers in these areas have access to, and skills to to replace their commission agents with info- use ICT, and are therefore able to par cipate in and entrepreneurs who will be paid commissions for benefi t from knowledge and informa on to improve selling mobile talk me. This has shown a new their yields, incomes and resilience. direc on – enabling virtual fi nancial transac ons The public-private partnerships in the Green while providing quality inputs and advisory services SIM project work well in understanding the to farmers. This would also lead to reforms in various dimensions and dynamics of government, the supply chain and provide win-win situa ons nongovernment, and civil society organiza ons in to producers and receivers by elimina ng developing this fi nancially sustainable ICT-mediated intermediaries/middlemen through direct virtual knowledge dissemina on system. transac ons. Benefi ts from the power of ICT Last mile connec vity The impact of Green SIM on the lives of par cipa ng The Green SIM is an eff ec ve tool in providing last farmers has been signifi cant, and has made extension mile connec vity to smallholder farmers. With more effi cient and farmer-friendly, with real- me useful informa on inputs in the local language and advice. voice format, the system is improving the quality of farmers’ decision making. With the informa on they receive on their mobile phones, farmers can now verify off ers that local The system successfully demonstrates a digital pes cide dealers and grain traders make. Nearly inclusion approach to improve farm produc vity, 18 everybody using the services in the villages has promote sustainability and resilience of farming managed to save money while making such deals. systems, directly improve income, livelihoods and Women farmer members of the Adarsha Mahila household food security, and indirectly, of health and Samaikya are now applying for loans at their bank to nutri on. buy mobile phones, while some have made enquiries Plans are underway to replicate and expand this on how they can convert their regular SIM into Green model in other parts of the world. The rise of new ICT SIM to receive the advisory services. devices such as tablets, phablets and other handheld The benefi ts for the community extend beyond devices will certainly create new opportuni es for monetary gains. Each day, farmers using the Green user-friendly informa on tools for be er agricultural SIM mobile applica on receive two voice messages advice services, along with access to informa on pertaining to area-specifi c agricultural needs, one on on quality inputs and markets. It will also create job dairy and animal husbandry and another on health opportuni es for info-entrepreneurs involved in and nutri on in rural areas. The messages cover Green SIM distribu on, bringing important addi onal issues in 16 diff erent categories and consist of mely incomes to rural communi es. solu ons provided by scien sts from ICRISAT. These The Green SIM system recently received the short voice messages also contain informa on on pres gious Flame Award 2013 from the Rural farming prac ces of seasonal crops, weather forecast, Marke ng Associa on of India (RMAI), for and agricultural related schemes. ‘showcasing innova ve use of technology’ of the decade among 209 entries from big corporate en es and non-profi t organiza ons. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 18 06/08/2014 12:34:04 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Regaining ground for Three decades of investment in groundnut Malawi’s groundnut research for development have moved smallholder farmers in Malawi from subsistence to inclusive market-oriented agriculture. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Malawi’s groundnut produc on was in decline, due to lack of improved varie es, poor availability of good quality, aff ordable seed in suffi cient quan es, and lack of grades and standards to enable smallholder farmers to access be er markets. A more holis c research eff ort aimed at strengthening the groundnut value chain in the country was implemented in the past three decades to arrest this decline, and create dynamic development op ons that li ed resource poor farmers from a state of poverty, to a state of prosperity. The formula – an inclusive market-oriented approach to research for development (R4D) where poor, smallholder farmers not only gain improved produc on and produc vity, but are also included in market opportuni es. Ensuring that they gain access to markets has moved them from subsistence to commercial farming, allowing them to capture their fair share of the benefi ts. Groundwork for groundnut Esnart Ngwinji, a woman farmer from Nkhotakota, a 19 lakeshore district in Malawi, shares her story: “I started growing the improved groundnut variety Kakoma (JL 124) in 2008. The yield was tremendous; I quickly paid back the seed given to me by the community seed bank established by ICRISAT and replanted the rest following prac ces taught to me and other farmers by ICRISAT scien sts, raising even more money. Today, I live in a n sheet-roofed house compared to the grass-thatched house I was living in. I also now have enough funds to purchase fer lizer to grow maize, improving food availability in my home, and have suffi cient funds to send my children to school.” The groundnut R4D program benefi ng Esnart and hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in Malawi spans over 30 years of ICRISAT’s partnerships with several interna onal and na onal organiza ons and farmers’ groups in Eastern and Southern Africa. It started with support from the heads of states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), ini ally funded by the Interna onal Development Research Centre (IDRC), subsequently by the German Government and in later years, by the United States Agency for Interna onal Development (USAID), McKnight Photo: S Sridharan, ICRISAT Founda on, and Irish Aid. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 19 06/08/2014 12:34:07 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 The key – innova ons inclusive of the poor, Quality seeds and seed business smallholder farmers, namely (1) Development in the hands of farmers of high-yielding and stress-resilient groundnut varie es and improved crop management op ons; Eff orts to produce cer fi ed seeds of groundnut (2) Providing access to quality seeds of improved took off in 2003, when the Na onal Smallholder varie es through be er seed systems; and (3) Farmers Associa on of Malawi (NASFAM) and ICRISAT Aff ordable product quality and food safety systems formed a partnership to implement a groundnut linking farmers to local and interna onal markets. seed produc on program – at a me when there was a high demand for groundnuts in the domes c, regional and interna onal markets. Be er varie es, enhanced livelihoods Through the Malawi Seed Industry Development Between 1982 and 2013, the Malawi national Project funded by Irish Aid from 2008, the Malawi program released six groundnut varieties, bringing Seed Alliance (MASA), a consor um of small-scale seed a marked improvement in groundnut production companies dedicated to produc on and distribu on and boosting food and income for smallholder of improved seed was established. Today, the MASA farmers. brand accounts for about 54% of legume seed sown A 2013 impact assessment study of the groundnut annually in the country. More than 700 metric tons R4D investment in Malawi has shown that 56% of of groundnut cer fi ed seeds under the brand (98% farmers cul vate improved varie es CG7 (ICGV-SM cer fi ed seed) were supplied to the subsidy market, 83708) and 28% grow Nsinjiro (ICGV-SM 90704), benefi ng around 395,000 farmers. accoun ng for 84% of groundnuts produced in the In the 2011-2012 cropping season, ICRISAT scien sts country. The current average yield of groundnut is supplied an addi onal 6.5 tons [5.5 tons of Nsingiro 800 kg/ha, showing a marked increase from (ICGV-SM 90704) and 1 ton of a new variety Chatala 450 kg/ha recorded in the early 1990s. (ICGV-SM 99568)] of cer fi ed seeds in partnership Majority of smallholder groundnut farmers in Malawi with NASFAM and the Department of Nutri on and 20 are women. The improved varie es, par cularly Soil Fer lity, to Mzimba district in northern Malawi. CG7, are of the “bunch” type and easier to harvest, This investment ini ally targeted 560 farmers and reducing women’s burden at harvest and leading 80 community seed banks, genera ng 40 tons of to reduced drudgery and me saved that can be seed in one year. Over 20 tons of seed was sold invested in other economic ac vi es. back to the ICRISAT seed revolving fund for further distribu on to farmers. In terms of benefi ts to households, farmers sell an average of 684 kg per household, with an average income of about US$ 140 per household from Aff ordable afl atoxin tes ng links farmers groundnut sales. About 77% of farmers a ribute their to interna onal market improved incomes and food security to improved The increasingly strict maximum allowable levels groundnut varie es developed by ICRISAT and the (MALs) of afl atoxin contamina on in the European Malawi na onal program. Union (EU) have prevented smallholder producers Income from groundnut sales was used to buy food, from accessing the European high-value markets. pay school fees, buy farm inputs such as labor and According to the World Bank, the reduc on of MALs seed, acquire household items, start a business, buy to 4 parts per billion of afl atoxin has resulted in clothes or improve dwellings. This income has greatly annual losses of over US$ 670 million for African empowered women groundnut farmers in Malawi countries. in terms of decision making and contribu ng to the well-being of their families. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 20 06/08/2014 12:34:08 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 The Mchinji Smallholders Farmers’ Associa on (MASFA) in central Malawi was just one group Proof of impact of farmers (a member of NASFAM) shut out of Results of the study “Socio-economic Impacts the groundnut exports trade due to the EU trade of Groundnut Research and Development regula ons on afl atoxins. However, ICRISAT’s ELISA Investments in Malawi 1982-2013” have technique for afl atoxin detec on has revitalized their strengthened the case that an inclusive market- business. oriented approach to R4D can be a real economic ICRISAT designed and ins tuted a system for quality and social driver in poorly developed rural assurance and standards, involving low-cost sampling communi es. and es ma on of levels of afl atoxin contamina on Investments in groundnut R4D in Malawi yielded in groundnuts. The ELISA technique has given a Net Present Value (NPV) of US$ 205 million smallholder farmers an opportunity to par cipate between 1982 and 2013, with a Return on in markets that they would otherwise have never Investment (ROI) of US$ 22 per dollar invested. accessed, par cularly the high-value markets in the EU. At the household level, domes c human The ELISA technique for afl atoxin detec on has cut consump on of shelled groundnuts rose over the cost of tes ng groundnut crops from US$ 25 to me from 11,000 tons in 1990 to 68,000 tons by US$ 1 per sample. 2013. Per capita consump on of groundnut rose Over 4,000 MASFA farmers have again begun to by three-fold from less than 1.5 kg/capita in 1990 export high-quality groundnuts to Europe under a to 4.7 kg/capita in 2013. fair trade agreement. Moses Siambi, Director, ICRISAT Today, about 35% of the total groundnut Eastern and Southern Africa, said: “We’ve seen a produc on is used as an input in the agro- very posi ve impact. Malawian groundnuts are now processing industry for produc on of groundnut available in the biggest supermarkets in Britain.” cake, oil and peanut bu er. Groundnut exports Many small farmer coopera ves across the African from Malawi in 2012 generated US$ 42 million, con nent could be following soon. contribu ng to the country’s foreign exchange 21 earnings and several spillover benefi ts to the By leveraging the right producing communi es and the broader economy. partnerships and including smallholder farmers in building a market-driven solu on through years of R4D investments, the Malawi groundnut industry has successfully regained its righ ul place. The work reported in this ar cle is con nuing under the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes. Mrs Frances Chavula of Mzimba district shows a subsidy voucher and a packet of MASA brand groundnut cer fi ed seed. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 21 06/08/2014 12:34:08 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 West Africa: Time-traveling through future climates ICRISAT and partners work with local farmers, communi es and organiza ons to fi ght and win the climate change war, through farmer-to- farmer local knowledge exchange, looking into the future with modeling tools, and crea ng suppor ve policies and ins tu ons. 22 First cornerstone: A female farmer visitor from Kampa Zarma (south-west Niger) learns to dig a zai hole (small plan ng pits) from a host farmer in Photo: AS Mousa,ICRISAT Tajae (center-east Niger). West Africa is home to the ho est rainfed Over me, crop plants and farmers alike have agricultural systems of the world. The developed adapta on traits and techniques to cope region’s climates have been historically with these constraints. West Africa is actually a unpredictable, especially on inter-annual mescales, treasure of indigenous adapta on measures that are fuelling complex stress pa erns through their of global signifi cance, and a primary center of agro- interac ons with soils and pests. biodiversity. Present coping strategies to buff er against eff ects Gaps in climate change preparedness are driven of unpredictable rainfall include avoiding risk and by poverty, inequality and lack of poli cal will. And developing tools to ensure yield stability. However, so people must be empowered – with all the tools they o en fail to exploit the posi ve opportuni es available – if the war against climate change is to be of the hardly predictable ‘average’ and ‘be er than fought and won. average’ seasons. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 22 06/08/2014 12:34:09 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 The three-pillar approach In each country, visi ng farmers were exposed to a wide spectrum of climate-smart agriculture In West Africa, ICRISAT and its partners have mapped prac ces and technologies. Direct interac on and out an ambi ous, mul -pronged approach to take learning among farmers allow for exchange and advantage of the region’s untapped knowledge sharing of adapta on-related ideas and techniques. resources, while empowering communi es and Par cipatory videos were used to support farmers’ leaders on strategic foresight and decision making. learning, and for them to share their fi ndings from This approach is based on three pillars: harnessing the tour with their own communi es. and capitalizing on local knowledge through direct farmer-to-farmer exchanges; looking into the future Mrs Bierinkuu Kuubaar, a woman farmer from with integrated assessment tools; and crea ng an Ghana said, “I’m very glad that I’m one of enabling environment to cope with and address the participants in this program. I learn how climate change through suppor ve policies and Burkinabe are fighting the negative impacts of ins tu ons. climate change. Growing trees, using organic matter from crop residue and household waste ICRISAT and partners are working with local farmers, as demonstrated by Mr Aziz is what I’ll start with communi es and organiza ons along these three when I return to Ghana.” pillars to build an inclusive, powerful solu on to win the climate-change war – collec ve me-traveling through future climates. Second cornerstone: Looking into the future with modeling tools First cornerstone: The Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Farmer-to-farmer approach Improvement Project (AgMIP: www.agmip.org) provides the second cornerstone that will allow us to Under the “Farms of the Future” program, more actually view, well ahead of me, the minute eff ects than 100 farmers and agriculture innova on of tomorrow’s climate on future crops and livelihoods stakeholders traveled from 13 villages in Burkina using a set of never seen before lenses called trans- 23 Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal to villages disciplinarity and ensemble modeling. In West Africa, with current climate condi ons comparable to their the AgMIP Regional Research Team is led by ICRISAT own future. This is the fi rst cornerstone – farmer- and the University of Ghana and marries scien sts, to-farmer exchanges of indigenous knowledge, researchers and stakeholders into an inclusive and enabling traveling farmers to build a mental picture dynamic knowledge co-produc on think tank. of what their climate and farming systems might look like in the future and to be er comprehend, analyze and iden fy adapta on strategies and technologies poten ally adaptable to their local condi ons (physical, socio- economic, and ins tu onal). Second cornerstone: Dr Ibrahima Hathie of the Ini a ve prospec ve agricole et rurale (IPAR), Senegal explains to fellow AgMIP scien sts from the University of Ghana how smallholder livelihoods will be impacted by climate change around 2050 in Nioro du Rip, Senegal. Photo: S Lifson, AgMIP AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 23 06/08/2014 12:34:13 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Thanks to AgMIP, we now understand be er that Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food aside from warming, West African drylands may be Security (CCAFS, www.ccafs.cgiar.org) in Ghana, Mali we er in many places (up to +20%), while at the and Senegal to help mainstream climate change same me dry up in others (up to -30%) as early into agricultural investment and benefi t the most as 2050. In countries like Senegal, produc on of vulnerable popula ons. a moisture-sensi ve crop such as maize may then “Given that Ghana has to do more especially to become a challenge. enhance food security, we make this commitment In these areas, simple adapta on measures such to support the Ghana CCAFS Pla orm in its eff orts as a longer grain fi lling dura on and improved root to promote interac ons and synergies among key distribu on can erase climate change eff ects and na onal ins tu ons. This is to enable us to take even bring signifi cant benefi ts, up to +80% income. In informed decisions for the adapta on of agriculture other places like Ghana’s Upper East Region, we are to climate change in our country,” says Hon Edem now a bit more certain that peanut, o en a woman’s Asimah, Chair of the Parliamentary Select Commi ee crop, may actually be spared the blunt impact, even on the Environment, Parliament of Ghana. without adapta on. The mul -sectoral composi on of pla orms involving Says Dr Dilys Maccarthy, AgMIP scien st with the various ministries and technical departments University of Ghana: “One of AgMIP’s remarkable is a game-changing step towards a dynamic strengths lies in its systems modeling approach that policy planning environment based on sound represents the full spectrum of households (rather scien fi c knowledge, par cipa ve processes and than just a generic farm) and provides socially transforma ve scenarios. diff eren ated economic implica ons of biophysical ICRISAT is engaged in helping na onal leaders to reach change (eg, income, poverty) for diff erent popula on out to local and decentralized stakeholders, by building strata that can include minority groups, smallholders, district-level capacity to visualize their futures. This and female-led households.” allows local stakeholders to systema cally develop 24 Third cornerstone: Mainstreaming climate fast-forward narra ves that may include both analysis change into policies of current trends and crea ve specula on about what might occur under tomorrow’s climate. This is just like Bringing climate adapta on to scale fi nally requires a replacing astrology with astronomy, warping me to robust policy and ins tu onal founda on. The third see into the future and building spaceships to change cornerstone of ICRISAT’s approach is to capacitate the future. science-policy exchange pla orms to mainstream climate change into na onal agricultural and food The work reported in this ar cle is con nuing under security policy plans. In 2013, na onal pla orms the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, were formally established by the CGIAR Research Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Third cornerstone: Training of na onal partners on scenario visioning to support na onal climate- smart policy development. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 24 06/08/2014 12:34:14 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Photo: J Ndjeunga, ICRISAT A visit to groundnut farmers’ fi elds in Fabidji, a village and rural commune in Niger. Leading the way to rural development in the Sahel In the villages of Burkina Faso and which involves not simply income or consump on Niger, development pathways 25 poverty, but also lack of secure access to and the poor address the dynamics of poverty and condi on of key livelihood assets par cularly land, as well as economic, poli cal and social isola on. land degrada on and put priority on Burkina Faso and Niger are among the many Sahelian scien fi c and policy interven ons to countries implemen ng poverty reduc on and rural build inclusive prosperity. development strategies on the road to development. But to get there, it is important to fi rst understand factors that help households escape the poverty In the Sahelian countries of Africa, about 80% and land degrada on trap. This knowledge is what of the 100 million inhabitants live and work in will drive an inclusive and socially profi table mix of rural areas and depend on agriculture for their improved ins tu ons, infrastructure and livelihood livelihoods. Poverty and vulnerability are severe in assets, and a suppor ve policy and technological these areas, and in many cases are worsening for environment. millions of people. Land degrada on is one of the major causes of poverty and income inequali es in the Sahel. Other underlying factors are many – harsh Understanding development pathways clima c condi ons, rapidly growing popula ons, Why do some households escape and others slide prevalence of diseases and pests, poor development into poverty? Knowing the ‘development pathways’ of infrastructure and markets, governance failures, that these poor rural households traverse to confl icts, and more. achieve improved livelihoods, food security and a Just as the causes of poverty and vulnerability are more sustainable natural resource base, given the mul -dimensional, so too is the nature of poverty, vulnerable situa on they are in, is the key. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 25 06/08/2014 12:34:18 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 An understanding of the challenges and drivers of agricultural labor force and has signifi cant impact development must be based on the perspec ves of on feminiza on of agriculture, especially in the drier the rural households and communi es themselves. areas of both Burkina Faso and Niger. But while Only then can innova ve scien fi c and policy women play a major role in agriculture, they con nue interven ons be designed to mo vate the poor to to have less access to good quality land. move along development pathways. Promising agriculture-based development pathways ICRISAT together with its partners – the Ins tut require technologies such as seeds of modern de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles varie es, fer lizers, pes cides, water and modern (INERA) in Burkina Faso and the Ins tut Na onal de equipment. Households are shi ing towards the Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) in Niger produc on of high value crops such as vegetables, – took the fi rst big leap with the project “Assessing trees and sugarcane as a result of increased access the dynamics of poverty and land degrada on in the to shallow water or where the government has built Sahel” funded by the Interna onal Development water infrastructure such as a dam. Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and implemented from 2009 to 2013. What determine development pathways? Based on a long-term panel data set for more than 250 farm households in Burkina Faso and How households and communi es design their Niger, collected in the 1980s, various development development pathways to cope with poverty and land pathways (or livelihood strategies, as used in the degrada on depend on a number of environmental, project study) pursued by the households were ins tu onal and policy factors. In Burkina Faso, iden fi ed, and the dynamics of poverty and land farmers in the high rainfall zone, with good access to degrada on were inves gated. markets, who use stone bunds and mineral fer lizers, and have access to tradi onal water sources choose the vegetable/sorghum development pathway over Development pathways by households – the millet/cowpea/gold panning/livestock pathway. How they cope Also, households with unproduc ve soils tend to migrate. For decades, rural households in Burkina Faso and Niger have designed various livelihood strategies to In Niger, households with good road access and 26 cope with and achieve livelihood outcomes, given markets, source of irriga on water, and where the degraded land, meager assets, government and farmers can borrow land and use fer lizers are likely private sector structures, and laws, ins tu ons, to choose the vegetable/cowpea/peanut strategy markets and technologies available to them. Based over the commerce/sorghum strategy. Those without on community and household level surveys in the access to tradi onal wells and who cannot diversify two countries, several development pathways or their ac vity are likely to migrate. livelihood strategies were iden fi ed. These livelihood strategies were largely determined by agricultural poten al based on agro-ecological Development pathways iden fi ed zone, popula on density, and access to markets Burkina Faso and roads. Where agricultural poten al is high, ▪ Millet/cowpea/livestock/gold panning development pathways are associated with high ▪ Hor culture/sorghum value crop produc on such as co on and maize, and ▪ Co on/maize adop on of soil and land management technologies ▪ Migra on/sorghum/tuber crops such as stone bunds and mineral fer lizers. In drier ▪ Groundnut/tuber/cereals areas with low agricultural poten al, produc on of Niger climate-smart crops like millet and sorghum, and ▪ Commerce/sorghum livestock are prevalent and require strong scien fi c ▪ Hor culture/legumes and policy interven ons. ▪ Migra on/millet/natron In Burkina Faso, gold panning as a poverty escape ▪ Commerce/hor culture pathway is not sustainable. Migra on targe ng ▪ Rice/migra on/millet/livestock the youth and heads of households depletes the AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 26 06/08/2014 12:34:18 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Development state Uptake/impact Livelihood resources Livelihood • Economic/fi nancial Employment and income • Physical Ins tu ons and Poverty allevia on • Natural organiza ons Well being and capabili es • Human improved • Social Sustainability Adapta on and Context resilience enhanced and vulnerability reduced History Poli cs Livelihood strategies Macro-economic condi ons • Agricultural intensifi ca on/ Climate Extensifi ca on Agro-ecology • Livelihood diversifi ca on Demography • Migra on Social diff eren a on Development process Analy cal framework for integrated natural resource management impact assessment on sustainable rural livelihoods (Source: Go ret and White 2001, URL: h p://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art17/) These pathways can be associated with different op ons and policy and program implica ons are as development outcomes, such as cash and higher follows: wages in the cotton/maize pathway in Burkina 1. Promote the use of fer lizers and soil and water Faso. Improvement in maize yields has been due conserva on measures to improve soil quality, to the residual effect of fertilizers applied on reduce land degrada on and increase incomes of cotton or direct fertilizer application. However, this the rural poor. pathway has a negative environmental outcome 2. Inves gate impacts of migra on and gold panning 27 resulting from pesticide use on cotton. Farmers’ to enhance rural livelihoods. shift to cotton production also results in land 3. Invest in irrigated water infrastructure to enhance devegetation. In this pathway, intensification is farmers’ investments on high value crops. done by using more fertilizers and improved seeds 4. Promote investments on improved livestock of cotton or maize. quality and health. Promising development pathways require the use of 5. Integrate policies and programs to promote soil modern technologies and access to water resources. and land management with poverty reduc on For example, use of zaï holes (plan ng pits) can and rural development strategies. increase produc vity by as much as 24% compared to 6. Allow women be er access to natural resources plots without zaï holes. Similarly, the use of mineral such as land. fer lizers can increase yields by more than 20% and While development prospects in the Sahel may organic fer lizers by more than 15%. seem daun ng to many, hope and op mism rest on Policy and program implica ons inclusive development pathways that put priority on policies and programs that li the poor from poverty Insights from the study give us a be er understanding to prosperity. of the drivers of agriculture and economic transforma on to help move the poor out of poverty The project reported in this ar cle was completed (see fi gure on ‘Inclusive development pathway under the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, framework for the Sahel’). Some promising best-fi t Ins tu ons and Markets. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 27 06/08/2014 12:34:18 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Res ea rch & Dev elo pm en t ICRISAT Governing Board 2013 Nigel Poole, UK S Ayyappan, India Chair, ICRISAT Governing Board Vice-Chairman, ICRISAT Governing Board 8, Knowles Avenue Secretary to the Government of India, Crowthrone Department of Agricultural Research and Berks, RG45 6DU, UK Educa on (DARE) and Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi 110 001, India William D Dar, Philippines Ashish Bahuguna, IAS, India Director General Secretary to the Government of India Interna onal Crops Research Ins tute Ministry of Agriculture for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Department of Agriculture Patancheru and Coopera on Telangana 502 324, India Krishi Bhavan New Delhi 110 001, India Deborah Delmer, USA Professor Chandra A Madramootoo, Canada Professor Emeritus Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and University of California Davis Environmental Sciences 33 Riverside Dr., McGill University Apt. 1A1/2A1 21, 111 Lakeshore Road New York NY 10023 Ste. Anne de Bellevue USA Quebec, Canada H9X 3V9 Molapo Qhobela, South Africa Oluwande Muoyo, Nigeria Vice Principal - Ins tu onal Development Plot 288 The University of South Africa, Akin Oluybade Street, OR Tambo Building, 12th fl oor, Offi ce #17 Victoria Island Pretoria, Republic of South Africa Lagos, Nigeria 28 Adama Traore, Mali Paco Sereme, Burkina Faso Execu ve Secretary & Research Director Directeur de recherche Na onal Commi ee on Agricultural Ancien Directeur Exécu f du CORAF/WECARD Research (CNRA) INERA/CNRST 04 BP 8645 Boulkassouombougou, Rue 599 Ouagadougou 04 Bamako, Mali (West Africa) Burkina Faso, West Africa (Via: Paris) (un l November 2013) (from November 2013) Minnie Mathew, India PK Mohanty, India Chief Secretary to Chief Secretary to the Government of the Government of Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Secretariat Hyderabad 500 022, Telangana Hyderabad 500 022, Telangana India India (un l April 2013) (from May 2013) Gry Synnevag, Norway Meryl Williams, Australia NORAGRIC – Centre for Interna onal 16 Lorong Batu Uban Satu Environment and Development Studies 11700 Gelugor Agricultural University of Norway Pulau Pinang PO box 5001 Malaysia N-1432 As Norway AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 28 06/08/2014 12:34:18 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT senior and collabora ve staff members Name, designa on, country of origin Patancheru (Headquarters) Purchase, Supplies and Disposal AVR Kesava Rao, Scien st (Agroclimatology), India Director General’s Offi ce Services S Raghavendra Rao, Manager (Watersheds), India William D Dar, Director General, PN Mallikarjuna, Head, Purchase, Supplies O/o Director General, Philippines and Disposal Services, India (un l 31 Mar GL Sawargaonkar, Scien st (Agronomy), India 2013) Arame Tall, Scien st (Climate Informa on Richard P Burgos, Chief of Staff - DG’s Offi ce, TD Peter, Head, Purchase, Supplies and Services), CCAFS, Resilient Dryland Systems, Philippines Disposal Services, India Senegal G Narendra Kumar, Director, Country VN Somayajulu, Manager, Purchase, Supplies Amare Haileslassie Tekle, Senior Scien st Rela ons and Business Aff airs, New Delhi, and Disposal Services, India (Crop Livestock), Ethiopia India Financial Services Takeshi Watanabe, Special Project Scien st, Strategic Marke ng Rajesh Agrawal, Assistant Director General - Japan and Communica on Finance, India Impact Assessment Offi ce Joanna Kane-Potaka, Director, Strategic Supriya Bansal, Financial Controller/Head, Marke ng and Communica on, Australia Financial Services, UK Kizito Mazvimavi, Head, Impact Assessment Offi ce, Zimbabwe Cris na P Bejosano, Head, Public Awareness PV Gopiramanan, Manager, Treasury and and Marke ng Support, Philippines Opera ons, India Research Program - Markets, Lydia Flynn, Manager, Senior Scien fi c Edi ng MS Raju, Senior Manager, Project Finance, Ins tu ons and Policies and Publishing, India India M Cynthia S Ban lan, Research Program Director R Narsing Rao, Manager, Grants and Ch Sridhar, Manager, CRP Finance and MIS, - Markets, Ins tu ons and Policies, Philippines Contracts, India Financial Services, India P Parthasarathy Rao, Assistant Research KPCh Subba Raju, Manager, Grants Deputy Director General’s Offi ce Program Director and Principal Scien st Management, India (Economics), India David A Hoisington, Deputy Director General Murli M Sharma, Senior Manager, Protocol, G Basavaraj, Scien st (Economics), India - Research, USA (un l 31 Aug 2013) Visitors and Travel Services, India (un l 20 Aug 2013) CL Laxmipathi Gowda, Deputy Director Smitha Sitaraman, Communica on Manager, Madhusudan Bha arai, Principal Scien st General - Research, India India (Economics), Nepal B Hanumanth Rao, Senior Manager, Mark D Winslow, Marke ng Specialist, USA D Kumara Charyulu, Scien st (Agricultural Intellectual Property, India Economics), India Alina Paul Bossuet, Consultant, France Research Program - Resilient Shyam Moses Davala, Special Project Scien st 29 Jerome Bossuet, Consultant, France Dryland Systems (Agricultural Economics), India Internal Audit Peter Q Craufurd, Research Program Director U am Kumar Deb, Principal Scien st - TN Menon, Head, Internal Audit, ICRISAT & - Resilient Dryland Systems, Economics (Village Level Studies), Bangladesh Associate Director (Asia), CGIAR-IAU, India UK (un l 07 Oct 2013) Chanda G Goodrich, Principal Scien st Swa Jain, Manager, Internal Audit, India SP Wani, Ac ng Research Program Director - (Empower Women), India Resilient Dryland Systems, India Dakshina Murthy Kadiyala, Special Project Human Resources Services KH Anantha, Scien st (Watersheds), India Scien st (Spa al Crop Modeling), India Hector V Hernandez, Director, Human Girish Chander, Scien st (Soil Science), India Anjani Kumar, Principal Scien st - Economics Resources and Opera ons, Philippines Murali Krishna Gumma, Scien st (GIS/Spa al (New Delhi), India (un l 30 Jun 2013) Science), India N Nagaraj, Principal Scien st (Economics), India SS Sharat Kumar, Director, Human Resources Kaushal Kishor Garg, Scien st (Watersheds) S Nedumaran, Scien st (Economics), India and Opera ons, India India R Padmaja, Scien st (Gender Research), India AJ Rama Rao, Head, Human Resources Tsehaye Tesfamariam Habtemichael, Services (NRS), India Thiagarajah Ramilan, Scien st (Bio-economic Post Doctoral Fellow, Eritrea Modeling), New Zealand CN Reddy, Head, Medical Services, India Shalander Kumar, Scien st (Dryland Systems A Amarender Reddy, Special Project Scien st K Mohan Sharma, Head, Human Resources in South Asia), India (Economics), India (un l 5 Dec 2013) Services (IRS/SMG), India Tomohiro Kurai, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan M Srinivas Rao, Specialist (Markets Research Surya Kant Sharma, Head, Human Resources G Pardhasaradhi, Manager, Soil and and Innova on), India and Opera ons, India Plant Analy cal Laboratory, India Housing and Food Services Prabhakar Pathak, Principal Scien st (Soil Research Program - Grain Legumes & Water Management), India K Ravi Shankar, Head, Housing and Food Rajeev K Varshney, Research Program Director Services, India (un l 30 Apr 2013) (un l 28 Feb 2013) - Grain Legumes and Director, Centre of Mukund Dhavaji Pa l, Scien st (Soil Physics), Excellence in Genomics (CEG), India A Vani, Manager, Housing and Food Services, India India AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 29 06/08/2014 12:34:39 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Pooran M Gaur, Assistant Research Program Myer G Mula, Scien st (Seed Systems), Pallavi Sinha, Special Project Scien st Director - Grain Legumes & Principal Philippines (Func onal Genomics), India Scien st (Chickpea Breeding), India Suresh Pande, Principal Scien st (Pathology), S Srinivasan, Scien st (Chickpea Breeding), Gaurav Agarwal, Special Project Scien st India (un l 30 Apr 2013) India (Applied Genomics), India Santosh K Pa anashe , Scien st (Gene c Hari Kishan Sudini, Senior Scien st Sarwar Azam, Special Project Scien st Resources), India (Groundnut Pathology), India (Computa onal Genomics), India (un l 11 Manish K Pandey, Scien st (Groundnut Mahendar Thudi, Scien st (Applied Genomics Nov 2013) Genomics), India and Genotype Service Laboratory), India Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, Senior Scien st GV Ranga Rao, Special Project Scien st (IPM), (Cell/Molecular Biology), India Hari D Upadhyaya, Principal Scien st and India Head, Gene Bank, India K Hima Bindu, Scien st (DST-INSPIRE), India Abhishek Rathore, Senior Scien st K Mohan Vishnuvardhan, Special Project Annapurna Chi kineni, Manager - Center of (Biometrics), India Scien st - Pigeonpea Breeding (Durgapura, Excellence in Genomics, India B Venkateswara Rao, Manager - Field Research Rajasthan), India (un l 7 May 2013) S Gopalakrishnan, Senior Scien st Opera ons (Chickpea Breeding), India (Bioproducts), India M Vetriventhan, Scien st (Gene c Resources), K Narsimha Reddy, Manager - Germplasm India Anupama J Hingane, Special Project Scien st Conserva on, India (Pigeonpea Breeding), India D Srinivas Reddy, Special Project Scien st, Research Program - Dryland Julie M I Hofer, Post Doctoral Fellow, UK/ India Cereals New Zealand VS Arun Kumar Sama, Special Project Scien st Stefania Grando, Research Program Director - P Janila, Scien st (Groundnut Breeding), (Molecular Breeding), India (un l 28 Aug Dryland Cereals, Italy India 2013) Vincent Vadez, Assistant Research Program Pawan Khera, Special Project Scien st - DVSSR Sastry, Manager - Genebank Seed Director - Dryland Cereals & Principal Scien st Genomics and Molecular Breeding (Peanut Laboratory, India (Plant Physiology), France Founda on), India KB Saxena, Principal Scien st (Pigeonpea Thammineni Chakradhar, Special Project Dong Hyun Kim, Post Doctoral Scien st Breeding), India Scien st, India (Genomics), Korea (un l 12 Dec 2013) Rachit Kumar Saxena, Scien st (Applied Santosh P Deshpande, Scien st (Molecular CV Sameer Kumar, Senior Scien st Genomics), India Breeding), India (Pigeonpea Breeding), India R Vijaya Kumar, Manager, Field Research HC Sharma, Principal Scien st (Entomology), M Govindaraj, Scien st (Pearl Millet Breeding), Opera ons (Pigeonpea Breeding), India India India Vinay Kumar, Special Project Scien st Mamta Sharma, Senior Scien st (Legumes SK Gupta, Senior Scien st (Pearl Millet 30 (Applied Genomics), India Pathology), India Breeding), India PT Lekha, Special Project Scien st (Applied San sree Parankusam, Scien st (DST- Jana Kholova, Associate Scien st, Cereals Genomics), India INSPIRE), Patancheru, India Physiology, Czechoslovakia Nalini Mallikarjuna, Principal Scien st (Cell Shivali Sharma, Scien st (Gene c Resources), A Ashok Kumar, Senior Scien st (Sorghum Biology), India (un l 31 Mar 2013) India Breeding), India KAVS Krishna Mohan, Special Project Scien st Vikas Kumar Singh, Special Project Scien st Punna Ramu, Special Project Scien st, India (Computa onal Genomics), India (Applied Genomics), India ICRISAT Management and senior staff members from headquarters, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West and Central Africa. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 30 06/08/2014 12:34:39 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 P Srinivasa Rao, Senior Scien st (Sorghum Saikat Da a Mazumdar, Chief Opera ng VV Sumanth Kumar, Scien st (ICT4D), India Breeding), India Offi cer, NutriPlus Knowledge Program, India Rosana P Mula, Coordinator, Learning Ch Ravinder Reddy, Senior Scien st Jonathan Philroy, Deputy Manager, Systems Unit, Philippines (Technology Exchange), India Agri-Business Incuba on Program, India M Madhan, Manager, Library and Informa on P Sudhakar Reddy, Scien st (DST-INSPIRE), India CGIAR Research Program on Services, India Dryland Cereals Pradyut J Modi, Head, Informa on Systems Trushar Shah, Scien st (Bioinforma cs), Kenya Unit, India Sobhana Sivasankar, Director, USA Rajan Sharma, Senior Scien st (Cereals Chukka Srinivasa Rao, Senior Manager, Data Pathology) & Head, Plant Quaran ne Lab, Sa sh Nagaraji, Communica on Manager, Management, India India CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals NT Yaduraju, Principal Scien st (ICT4D), India & Grain Legumes, India Rakesh K Srivastava, Senior Scien st (un l 5 Dec 2013) (Molecular Breeding), India CGIAR Research Program on Grain KN Rai, Consultant, Pearl Millet Breeding, India Legumes Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) AG Bhasker Raj, Manager - Field Research Thomas Henry Noel Ellis, Director, UK Nairobi, Kenya Opera ons (Pearl Millet Breeding), India B Ramaiah, Manager - Field Research Farm, Engineering and Transport Said N Silim, Director, ESA, Uganda (un l 31 Aug 2013) Opera ons (Sorghum Breeding), India Services (FETS) Moses Siambi, Director - ESA, Kenya BVS Reddy, Consultant, Sorghum Breeding, M Prabhakar Reddy, Program Leader - Farm, Emmanuel S Monyo, Project Coordinator, India (un l 31 Jul 2013) Engineering and Transport Services, India TL-II, Grain Legumes, Tanzania Manish Roorkiwal, Special Project Scien st Suresh C Pillay, Assistant Program Leader - Alastair William Orr, Assistant Director for ESA (Agricultural Genomics Network), India Farm, Engineering and Transport Services and and Principal Scien st (Economics), Dryland Senior Manager (Engineering Services), India Agribusiness and Innova on Cereals, UK Mohd Aslam Shariff , Senior Manager, Pla orm (AIP) Lieven Claessens, Principal Scien st - Natural Transport Services, India Resources (Water and Soils), Resilient Kiran K Sharma, Director, PTTC and Chief C Buchappa, Senior Manager, Engineering Dryland Systems, Belgium Execu ve Offi cer, Agribusiness and Services, India Albert Johannes Gierend, Agricultural Innova on Pla orm, and Principal Scien st (Cell Biology), India Bijoo Davis, Manager, Electrical and Marke ng Economist, Markets, Ins tu ons Aircondi oning, India and Policies, Germany S Aravazhi, Manager - Agri-Business Incuba on Program & Chief Opera ng K Hanmanth Rao, Senior Manager, Farm David Harris, Principal Scien st Offi cer - Innova on and Partnership Services, India (Agroecosystems/Climate Change), Resilient Dryland Systems, UK 31 Program, India Knowledge Sharing and Innova on SM Karuppan Che y, Chief Opera ng (KSI) Kai Mausch, Scien st, Economics (ESA), Markets, Ins tu ons and Policies, Germany Offi cer, Agri-Business Incuba on Program, Dileepkumar Guntuku, Principal Scien st/ India Global Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Mary A Mgonja, Principal Scien st (Breeding), R Bhubesh Kumar, Assistant Manager, Innova on, and Coordinator for South-South Dryland Cereals, Tanzania Agri-Business Incuba on Program, India Exchange, India Damaris A Odeny, Scien st, Biotechnology (ESA), Grain Legumes, Kenya Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 31 06/08/2014 12:34:42 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Henry Fred Ojulong, Scien st (Breeding), West and Central Africa (WCA) Niamey, Niger Dryland Cereals, Uganda Mahamadou Gandah, Project Coordinator, Rajneesh Paliwal, Post Doctoral Fellow, Bamako, Mali AGRA Microdose Project and Country Dryland Cereals, India Farid Waliyar, Director, WCA, France Representa ve, Resilient Dryland Systems, NVPR Ganga Rao, Senior Scien st (Breeding), BR Ntare, Assistant Director, WCA, and Niger Grain Legumes, India Principal Scien st (Breeding), Grain Malick Niango Ba, Senior Scien st, Entomology Simone Verkaart, Junior Professional Offi cer Legumes, Uganda (un l 30 Nov 2013) (WCA), Grain Legumes/Dryland Cereals, (Technology Transfer), Resilient Dryland Amadou Bila Belemgoabga, Manager, Burkina Faso Systems, Holland Administra on, WCA, Burkina Faso Fatondji Dougbedji, Scien st (Agronomy), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, Scien st - Land Resilient Dryland Systems, Niger KPC Rao, Principal Scien st (Soil Science) and and Water Management (WCA), Resilient Bakary Djaby, Senior Scien st, Dryland Systems Country Representa ve, Resilient Dryland Dryland Systems, Ethiopia and Livelihood Diversifi ca on (WCA), Burkina Systems, India Agathe Diama, Regional Informa on Offi cer, Faso/ Belgian (TBC) Sridhar Gummadi, Special Project Scien st WCA, Mali Falalou Hamidou, Regional Scien st (Climate Change Adapta on), Resilient Hailemichael Shewayrga Desmae, Scien st (Physiology), Grain Legumes, Niger Dryland Systems, India - Groundnut Breeding, Grain Legumes, CT Hash, Principal Scien st (Breeding), Dryland Abdalla H Mohamed, Senior Scien st - Australia Cereals, USA Cereals Breeding (ESA), Dryland Cereals, Ga en Falconnier, Associate Professional Amadou Hassane, Senior Manager, Finance, Sudan Offi cer (Crop Livestock Systems/Modeling), WCA, Niger Christopher Ochieng Ojiewo, Senior Scien st Resilient Dryland Systems, France (Legumes Breeding), Grain Legumes, Kenya Sapna Jarial, Scien st, Crop Livestock (WCA), Abdoulaye Saley Moussa, Senior Scien st Resilient Dryland Systems, India Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program, Resilient Rodolfo Mar nez Morales, Senior Scien st Dryland Systems, Niger Andre F van Rooyen, Senior Scien st (Crop (Crop Diversifi ca on/Agronomy), Resilient Livestock) and Country Representa ve, Baloua Nebie, Junior Professional Offi cer Dryland Systems, Mexico (un l 31 May 2013) Resilient Dryland Systems, South Africa (Sorghum Breeding), Dryland Cereals, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Principal Scien st, Markets, Sabine Homann - Kee Tui, Scien st, Markets, Burkina Faso Ins tu ons and Policies, Cameroon Ins tu ons and Policies, Germany George E Okwach, Project Manager, HOPE Patrice Savadogo, Joint Agroforestry System Mar n Philani Moyo, Post Doctoral Fellow, Project for Sorghum and Millets, Dryland Scien st (ICRAF-ICRISAT), Resilient Dryland 32 Resilient Dryland Systems, Zimbabwe Cereals, Kenya Systems, Burkina Faso Jus ce Nyamangara, Scien st (Agronomy), Moses Osiru, Senior Scien st, Legume/Cereal Mensah Edouard Romeo, Associate Professional Resilient Dryland Systems, Zimbabwe Pathology (WCA), Grain Legumes/Dryland Offi cer (Economics), Markets, Ins tu ons and Cereals, Uganda Masika Patricia, Post Doctoral Fellow, Policies, Benin Resilient Dryland Systems, Zimbabwe Vera Lugutuah, Associate Professional Offi cer Gaston Sangare, Regional Farm Manager, WCA, Swathi Sridharan, Editor - ESA, Strategic (Human Nutri on), Dryland Cereals, Ghana Mali Marke ng & Communica on, India (un l 3 Jan 2013) Tom van Mourik, Special Project Scien st, Kano, Nigeria Lilongwe, Malawi HOPE Project, Resilient Dryland Systems, Hakeem Ayinde Ajeigbe, Principal Scien st Patrick Okori, Principal Scien st (Groundnut Holland (Agronomy) and Country Representa ve, Breeding) and Country Representa ve, HFW Ra unde, Principal Scien st (Sorghum Resilient Dryland Systems, Nigeria Grain Legumes, Uganda Breeding & Gene c Resources), Dryland S Anitha, Post Doctoral Fellow, Grain Cereals, USA Collabora ve Staff Legumes, India Eva W Ra unde, Principal Scien st (Sorghum Samuel MC Njoroge, Scien st (Legume/ Breeding & Gene c Resources), Dryland Interna onal School of Hyderabad Cereal Pathology) Grain Legumes/Dryland Cereals, Germany Helge Gallinger, Principal - Interna onal School Cereals, Kenya PCS Traore, Senior Manager, GIS, Resilient of Hyderabad (Patancheru, India), Germany Takuji W Tsusaka, Associate Scien st (Produc on Dryland Systems, France (un l 30 Jun 2013) Economics, Innova on Systems and Markets), Robert B Zougmore, Regional Program Oli Tooher-Hancock, Head of School (Principal), ESA, Markets, Ins tu ons and Policies, Japan Leader, CCAFS, Resilient Dryland Systems, UK Maputo, Mozambique Burkina Faso Tilahun Amede Wondifraw, Principal Scien st (Natural Resources/Systems Agronomy), Resilient Dryland Systems, Ethiopia AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 32 06/08/2014 12:34:44 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 New bilateral projects funded in 2013 Addressing phytophthora blight disease: An emerging threat to pigeonpea expansion and produc on Donor Agency: Department of Agriculture and Coopera on, Na onal Food Security Mission, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, India Partners: Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India; RAK College of Agriculture (RAKCA), Sehore, India; Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, India. Advancing the produc vity fron er for sorghum Donor Agency: USAID through the University of Georgia, Athens, USA Be er targe ng of sorghum in West Africa (deputa on of Dr Myriam Adam, CIRAD) Donor Agency: Centre de Coopéra on Interna onale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, France Bhoochetana, a sustainable produc vity enhancement programme – Phase 2 (2013-17) in Karnataka Donor Agency: Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka, India Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of insect-host plant resistance signaling system to spo ed stem borer, Chilo partellus in sorghum Donor Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, India Brainstorming Conference on STI Policy 2013 Donor Agency: Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, India CV Raman Interna onal Fellowship for African Researchers’ - Visi ng Fellowship – Mr Oumarou Halilou Donor Agency: Federa on of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, India CV Raman Interna onal Fellowship for African Researchers’ - Visi ng Fellowship – Ms Madina Diancoumba Donor Agency: Federa on of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, India Capacity building for afl atoxin management and control in groundnuts in Malawi Donor Agency: World Trade Organiza on (WTO), Switzerland Partners: Ministry of Industry and Trade, Department of Agricultural Research Services (DARS), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Ministry of Health, Government of Malawi; Na onal Smallholder Farmers’ Associa on of Malawi (NASFAM), Malawi. Capacity building for the adop on of Bhoochetana principles and approach in boos ng agricultural produc vity in the Philippines 33 Donor Agency: Bureau of Agriculture Research (DA-BAR), Department of Agriculture, Government of Philippines, Philippines Characteriza on of defensive insec cidal proteins (lec ns and serpins) from plants for deployment in transgenic plants for controlling co on bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera Donor Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, India Characteriza on of novel brown midrib (bmr) sorghum mutants and improving the conversion effi ciency for higher biofuels and bioproducts recovery Donor Agency: Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, India Crop biofor fi ca on of groundnut and pigeonpea for allevia ng vitamin ‘A’ defi ciencies in India Donor Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, India Developing and implemen ng the genomic component of IBP (G8009.11) Donor Agency: Genera on Challenge Programme/CIMMYT, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Developing chickpea cul vars suited to mechanical harves ng and tolerant to herbicides Donor Agency: Department of Agriculture and Coopera on, Na onal Food Security Mission, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, India Partners: Indian Ins tute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, UP, India; Indian Agricultural Research Ins tute (IARI), New Delhi, India; Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India; Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya (RVSKVV) - RAK College of Agriculture (RAKCA), Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India; University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad, Karnataka, India; Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) – Regional Agricultural Research Sta on (RARS)-Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India. Development of abio c stress tolerant millet for Africa and South Asia Donor Agency: USAID through the University of California, Davis, USA AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 33 06/08/2014 12:34:44 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Engagement for implementa on of produc on and processing of new groundnut varie es and improved cropping system in Nigeria Donor Agency: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Government of Nigeria, Nigeria Ensuring human health, food and nutri onal security through novel cereal and fruit based prebio cs Donor Agency: India-Sri Lanka Inter-Governmental Science & Technology Coopera on Programme, Department of Science & Technology, GOI Partners: Industrial Technology Ins tute, Sri Lanka Farmer seed enterprises development under the Africa RISING project in Mali Donor Agency: United States Agency for Interna onal Development (USAID), Mali. For organizing mee ngs of the Project Advisory and Monitoring Commi ees (PAMC) at ICRISAT, Hyderabad Donor Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India For providing training to fi eld staff , technical backstopping for eff ec ve implementa on of conserva on farming in Chipinge District, Zimbabwe Donor Agency: Ac on Contre la Faim (ACF), Zimbabwe Genera on Challenge Programme (GCP) Product Delivery Coordinator -- Dr Patrick Okori, ICRISAT-Malawi Donor Agency: Genera on Challenge Programme/CIMMYT, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Genome-wide associa on studies (GWAS) of gene-rich regions associated with target traits for peanut breeding using diverse global germplasm collec ons Donor Agency: The Peanut Founda on through the University of California, Davis, USA Genotyping Services with regard to fi ngerprin ng of 115 groundnut samples with 90 SSR markers Donor Agency: Genera on Challenge Program/CIMMYT, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Groundnut improvement for smallholding farmers in Asia Donor Agency: The OPEC Fund for Interna onal Development, Austria Harnessing the role of aquaporins in water conserva on and drought tolerance improvement in pearl millet Donor Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, India Improved livelihoods through community water resources management in community watersheds Donor Agency: SABMiller India Ltd., India Improving post-rainy sorghum varie es to meet the growing grain and fodder demand in India Donor Agency: Australian Centre for Interna onal Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Australia 34 Partners: University of Queensland, Australia; Directorate of Sorghum Research, India. Improving rural livelihoods in benchmark through integrated watershed management in Bellary district in Karnataka Donor Agency: Jindal South West Founda on, India Partners: Pranathi Rural Development Society, Karnataka, India Improving the robustness, sustainability, produc vity and eco-effi ciencies of rice systems throughout Asia Donor Agency: The University of Tasmania, Australia Improving widely grown groundnut cul vars by introgressing genes for resistance to foliar fungal diseases (LLS and rust) and high oil quality (O/L ra o) Donor Agency: Mars Chocolate North America, LLC., USA Partners: Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh, India Increase and enhance chickpea and pigeonpea produc on technologies in the farmers fi elds of two districts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka under Morocco-India Food Legume Ini a ve Donor Agency: OCP Founda on, Morocco Partners: Regional Agricultural Research Sta on, Palem and Nandyal, India; University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, India Increasing irriga on water produc vity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe Donor Agency: Australian Centre for Interna onal Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Australia Partners: Australian Na onal University, Australia; CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; University of South Australia, Australia; Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network, South Africa; University of Pretoria, South Africa; Na onal Ins tute of Irriga on, Mozambique; Ardhi University, Tanzania. Integra ng crop and livestock produc on for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe Donor Agency: Australian Center for Interna onal Agricultural Research, Australia through ILRI, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Partners: Department of Irriga on in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechaniza on and Irriga on Development, Zimbabwe and Department of Water Resources Planning and Management in the current Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 34 06/08/2014 12:34:44 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Integra ng GUI for genomic selec on in IBP Tool Box Donor Agency: Genera on Challenge Programme/CIMMYT, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Partners: Cornell University, USA; Roslin Ins tute at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Intensifi ca on of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanzania (Kongwa and Kiteto districts) to increase farm produc vity and improve farming natural resource base Donor Agency: USAID through IITA, a member of the CGIAR Consor um Partners: CIMMYT; ICRAF; Agricultural Research Ins tute-Hombolo, Tanzania; Agricultural Research Ins tute-Naliendele, Tanzania; Sokoine University of Agriculture, University of Dodoma, Tanzania. Intercropping of banana and sweet sorghum in marginal lands of Gujarat, India to demonstrate socio-economic and environmental benefi ts Donor Agency: Bundesministerium für Wirtscha liche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)/Deutsche Gesellscha für Interna onale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Partners: Technische Universitate Berlin, Germany; Abellon Clean Energy Ltd., India. Maintenance of gene c resources collec ons (genebank) of ICRISAT Donor Agency: Bundesministerium für Wirtscha liche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)/Deutsche Gesellscha für Interna onale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Placement of Esther Lechevallier as trainee in the project “Phenotyping drought adapta on traits in sorghum and pearl millet” Donor Agency: Na onal Agronomics Engineering Post Graduate School Toulouse (INP/ENSAT), France Produc on of sorghum breeder seed under the West Africa Seed Program Donor Agency: Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Development Agricoles (CORAF)/West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD), Senegal Programme d’Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire des Ménages-Tanadin Abincin Iyali (PASAM-TAI) (Support Program for Household Food Security, Tanadin Abincin Iyali) Donor Agency: USAID through Catholic Relief Services, Niger Reference genome sequence for pearl millet [A high quality reference genome sequence of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) for accelerated breeding of improved cul vars] Donor Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Founda on, USA Partners: Beijing Genomics Ins tute, Shenzhen, China; Ins tut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France; All India Coordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project (AICPMIP), ICAR, India; Aberystwyth University, UK; University of Georgia, USA; Pioneer Overseas Corpora on, USA; University of Florida, USA. 35 RegenIntro: Introduc on of accessions from the regenera on ini a ve into the interna onal collec ons held by ICRISAT Donor Agency: Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany Research based support and facilita on for boos ng sorghum produc on, commercializa on and u liza on in Nigeria Donor Agency: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Government of Nigeria, Nigeria Services in organizing a Workshop on Community Seed Produc on (CSP), 9-11 December 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Donor Agency: Food and Agriculture Organiza on of the United Na ons (FAO), Italy Smart cereals for management of stemborer pests in staple cereals in Africa Donor Agency: Rothamsted Research Ltd., Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK Suppor ng the establishment of joint pla orm Donor Agency: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China Suppor ng collabora ve projects in China Donor Agency: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China Partners: Khon Kaen Field Crops Research Center (KKFCRC), Thailand; Plant Protec on Research Ins tute (PPRI), Vietnam; Research Ins tute for Oil and Oil Plants (IOOP), Vietnam. Training Program for Chinese young scien sts Donor Agency: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China Training Program on Knowledge and skill development of food tes ng laboratories personnel from African countries Donor Agency: Ministry of External Aff airs, East and Southern Africa Division, Government of India, India Training Programs for (i) Development of agribusiness and food processing business incuba on centres in Africa; (ii) Advanced Training on Analy cal techniques and ISO 17025: 2005 for food tes ng laboratory personnel from African Countries Donor Agency: Ministry of External Aff airs, East and Southern Africa Division, Government of India AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 35 06/08/2014 12:34:44 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Financial summary Balance sheet US$ thousands 2013 2012 Assets Cash and cash equivalents 19,260 10,393 Investments 51,239 56,916 Accounts receivable 13,842 24,234 Inventories 920 821 Prepaid expenses 435 436 Property and equipment - net 7,585 6,349 Other assets 3,921 4,753 Total Assets 97,202 103,902 Liabili es Accounts payable 19,808 22,937 Accruals and provisions 2,595 3,781 Payments in advance from donors 27,660 30,793 Long-term liabili es 11,352 13,023 Total Liabili es 61,415 70,534 Net Assets Unrestricted Undesignated 16,431 19,064 Designated 15,113 10,113 Restricted 4,243 4,191 Total Net Assets 35,787 33,368 Total Liabili es & Net Assets 97,202 103,902 36 Opera ng results and movements in Net Assets US$ thousands 2013 2012 Opera ng results Revenue 82,995 69,128 Expenditure 80,718 65,373 Surplus 2,277 3,755 Net Assets - Unrestricted Undesignated Balance, beginning of the year 19,064 17,345 Opera ng surplus for the year 2,277 3,755 Gratuity/Pension charge 90 (1,036) Transfer to Designated (5,000) (1,000) Balance, end of the year 16,431 19,064 Designated Balance, beginning of the year 10,113 9,113 Transfer from Undesignated 5,000 1,000 Balance, end of the year 15,113 10,113 Total Unrestricted Net Assets 31,544 29,177 Restricted 4,243 4,191 Total Net Assets 35,787 33,368 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 36 06/08/2014 12:34:44 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Grant income from donors for 2013 Donor US$ '000 Donor US$ '000 CGIAR Consor um 38,069 Austria 215 Consor um Research Centers 10, 946 Offi ce Cherifi en des Phosphates 178 40,000 Bill & Melinda Gates Founda on 6,907 Founda on (OCPF) 38,000 India 6,735 Navajbai Ra tan Tata Trust 164 United States of America (USA) 6,021 Canada 158 36,000 CGIAR Challenge Programme 2,272 Australia 144 Ireland 1,255 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 117 34,000 Global Crop Diversity Trust 848 China 100 32,000 Germany 666 United Kingdom (UK) 97 Seed Companies 643 Ins tute Na onal de Recherches 86 30,000 European Commission (EU) 531 Agronomiques du Niger (INRAN) McKnight Founda on 427 28,000 Common Fund for Commodi es 85 Japan 382 (CFC) 26,000 Associa on for Strengthening of 368 Food and Agriculture 72 Agricultural Research in Eastern Organiza on (FAO) 24,000 and Central Africa (ASARECA) Ins tute d' economie Rurale (IER) 68 Netherlands 336 22,000 World Bank 67 Alliance for a Green Revolu on in 314 Coca Cola India Founda on 61 20,000 Africa (AGRA) Denmark 34 Other donors 295 France 29 18,000 Philippines 289 Care Inc. 274 Thailand 20 16,000 Interna onal Fund for 244 Turkey 10 37 Agricultural Development (IFAD) Ac on Contre la Faim 10 14,000 Sir Ratan Tata Trust 235 Catholic Relief Services 7 12,000 Forum for Agricultural Research 220 Aga Khan Founda on 5 in Africa (FARA) Grand Total 80,004 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 ina UK orld Ban k IER FA O CFC Ch IN RAN Aga Khan Fo unda on Cath olic Relie f S ervi ce s Ac on Contre la Fa im Tu rke y Thail an d Fra nce Denmar k Coca Cola India Fo unda on W cK nigh t F ounda on Euro pean Commiss ion Se ed Compan ies Germ an y elin da G ate s F ounda on Conso r um Rese ar ch Cente rs CGIA R Conso r um Global Cro p D ive rsi ty Tru st Ire lan d CGIA R Chall enge Pro gra mme USA India r D orab ji T ata Tr ust Austr ali a Can ad a Nav ajb ai Rata n Ta ta Tru st OCPF Austr ia FA RA Sir Rata n Ta ta Tru st IFA D Car e In c. Philip pines Oth er d onors AGRA Neth erla nds ASA REC A Jap an M Si Bill & M AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 37 06/08/2014 12:34:45 PM US$ Thousands ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Capacity strengthening a. Number and diversity of degree students trained/being trained at ICRISAT Scholars Master’s Interns program PhD Fellows ICRISAT loca on M F M F M F M F Countries South Asia 36 47 9 7 28 30 19 12 South Asia (India) - - - - - - 3 1 Southeast Asia (Philippines) 1 1 - - - - 2 - East Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) - - - - - - - 1 South America (Brazil) - 2 - - - - - - North America (United States) 1 - - - - - - - South Africa (Zimbabwe) - - - - 2 - 2 - East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) - - - - - - 4 3 West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Senegal) 1 - - - - - - 3 Europe (France, Norway, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom) - - - 1 - - - 1 Oceania (Australia) 38 Total 39 50 9 8 30 30 30 21 217 89 77 51 (Joined and completed in 2013) 60 0 18 (Joined before 2013 and completed in 2013) 12 15 13 (Joined in 2013 and con nuing onwards) 17 39 17 (Con nuing from previous year) 0 23 3 West and Central Africa 18 13 21 5 10 - - - West Africa (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria) Total 18 13 21 5 10 0 0 0 67 31 36 0 (Joined and completed in 2013) 20 2 0 (Joined before 2013 and completed in 2013) 1 13 0 (Joined in 2013 and con nuing onwards) 10 16 0 (Con nuing from previous year) 0 5 0 Eastern and Southern Africa 5 5 1 1 2 1 - - East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) Total 5 5 1 1 2 1 0 0 15 10 5 0 Grand total 130 118 51 299 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 38 06/08/2014 12:34:45 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 b. Number of training courses, scien fi c visits conducted in all ICRISAT loca ons Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Patancheru, Training in Integrated crop management in 10 10 India India grain legumes, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 18–20 February 2013 Scien fi c visit of research managers and 4 6 10 Philippines extension workers, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 3–9 March 2013 Training of fi eld staff on HH survey and handling 11 1 12 India GPs, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 4–5 March 2013 Capacity building workshop on Agropedia and 25 5 30 India Open Access ins tu onal repository, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 11–12 March 2013 Training in Integrated crop management in 7 1 8 India grain legumes, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 11–14 March 2013 AgMIP mul ple crop model training program, 11 1 12 Australia, Pakistan, Nepal, USA and Kathmandu, Nepal, 18–22 March 2013 India AgMIP mul ple crop model training program, 27 11 38 Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 25–29 March 2013 Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, USA and Zimbabwe Scien fi c visit of research leaders/managers, 4 1 5 Philippines ICRISAT, Patancheru, 23–27 March 2013 Short-term training program on Knowledge 12 12 24 Zimbabwe, Gambia, Repubilc of and skill development of food tes ng Congo, Zambia, Nigeria, Senegal, laboratory personnel from African countries Mozambique, Ghana and Tanzania 39 under the India Africa Forum Summit (IAFS)-II, ini a ve of the Government of India, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 30 March–12 April 2013 Interna onal training program on Detec on 6 2 8 Niger, Niamey, Malawi, Zambia, Sri and management of afl atoxin contamina on Lanka and Bangladesh in crops, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 29 April–10 May 2013 A par cipant receives a cer fi cate a er comple ng the AgMIP mul ple crop model training program. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 39 06/08/2014 12:34:45 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Training course on Principles of GIS and remote 8 2 10 India sensing for natural resource assessment, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 5–10 May 2013 Training course on R so ware, ICRISAT, 22 6 28 India Patancheru, 6–8 May 2013 Sta s cs training course on Agricultural fi eld 17 20 37 India, Philippines trial designing and data analysis, Philippines 11–14 June 2013 Exposure-cum-training program for offi cers of 16 3 19 India Odisha, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 26–28 June 2013 Training on Business incuba on, TNAU, 18 4 22 India Coimbatore, 18–21 June 2013 Agropedia 2.0: Capacity building workshop for 27 5 32 India new partners, IASRI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 15 July 2013 Training course on Modern genomics for crop 21 9 30 Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, improvement, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 22 July– Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, 9 August 2013 Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda Scien fi c visit of delegates from the 2 4 6 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 19–23 August 2013 Training on Conduc ng mul loca on trials of 13 7 20 India sorghum and pearl millet and data analysis, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 19 August 2013 Capacity building of extension offi cers of 25 9 34 India Rubber Board on e-Extension strategies for 40 knowledge sharing, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 20–21 August 2013 Capacity building of extension offi cers of 20 10 30 India Rubber Board on e-Extension strategies for knowledge sharing, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 3–4 September 2013 Scien fi c visit of delegates from the 3 5 8 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 9–13 September Third interna onal training course on Pearl 25 4 29 Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, millet hybrid parents improvement and seed Kenya, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, produc on, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Uganda 10–19 September 2013 Training program on Seed business, ICRISAT, 28 2 30 India Patancheru, 30 September–11 October 2013 Fourth interna onal training course on 20 2 22 Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sorghum hybrid parents improvement and Sudan, Togo and India seed produc on, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 30 September–11 October 2013 Training program on Plant gene c resources 14 3 17 India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Tanzania, Niger, and genebank management, ICRISAT, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Vietnam, Uganda, Patancheru, 7–12 October 2013 Nairobi, Zimbabwe and Malawi Short course on Using resilience lens for 14 0 14 India developing climate resilient agriculture, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 7–18 October 2013 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 40 06/08/2014 12:34:52 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Scien fi c visit of delegates, media 4 2 6 Philippines representa ves and farmers’ leaders of the Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 15–19 October 2013 Short course on Ecosystem services and 15 2 17 India, China, Senegal and Ethiopia integrated watershed management, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 6–15 November 2013 Scien fi c visit of delegates from the 3 0 3 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 9–17 November 2013 Scien fi c visit of delegates from the 1 0 1 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 17–22 November 2013 Interna onal training on Applica on of 11 10 21 Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, Nigeria, gene c engineering in grain legumes and Uganda, Vietnam, Philippines, its transla on, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 18–27 Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and November 2013 India An overview to PRINCE2® – an introductory 17 5 22 Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mali, course for project management, ICRISAT, Niger, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe Patancheru, 21–23 November 2013 Capacity building on Gender and equity 6 5 11 India, South Africa, Uganda, Senegal, considera ons in the design and evalua on Ghana, Kenya of climate services for farmers adapta on to climate change, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 25–28 November 2013 41 A training course on pearl millet hybrid parents improvement and seed produc on in progress. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 41 06/08/2014 12:34:53 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries ICAR-ICRISAT training program on Adop on 17 9 26 India and impact assessment of research and development project, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 27–30 November 2013 Training course on Feed resources assessment 22 6 28 India and priori za on tools organized by ILRI and ICRISAT, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 27–30 November 2013 Scien fi c visit of delegates from the 7 3 10 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 27 November - 7 December 2013 ICAR-ICRISAT training workshop on Small 30 3 33 India farmers value and market linkages, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 2–4 December 2013 Training workshop on Strengthening capacity 14 4 18 India and Malawi on impact assessment measurements, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 3–4 December 2013 Scien fi c visit of media representa ves of the 3 1 4 Philippines Philippines, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 4–10 December 2013 Capacity building program on An orienta on 30 8 38 India, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, to innova ve agriculture data management Nigeria, Uganda pla orms, 5–6 December 2013 Capacity building program on Appropriate 20 11 31 Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mali, technologies and innova ve approaches Philippines, Senegal for agriculture knowledge sharing, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 9–14 December 2013 Training course on Pre-breeding and crop 24 1 25 India, Philippines, Bangladesh, 42 improvement in legumes, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Senegal, Ghana, Niger, Kenya, 9–20 December 2013 Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lao, Myanmar and Nepal Training course on Introduc on to applica on 10 0 10 Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopia of remote sensing and Geographical and Mekelle Informa on Systems (GIS) in Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT), ICRISAT, c/o ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16–20 December 2013 Training course on Convergence to unlock the 17 1 18 India, Tanzania, Ethiopia poten al of agriculture through scaling-up of research for development (R4D) approach, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 18–27 December 2013 Sub-total 661 206 867 (Patancheru) Niamey, Forma on en Techniques de produc on 7 285 292 Benin Niger maraîchère, Kallale, 24 January–2 February 2013 Forma on en Techniques de repiquage de la 2 25 27 Niger pomme de terre, Birnin N’Gaouré, January 2013 Forma on en Maintenance du système 5 290 295 Benin, Niger d’irriga on gou e à gou e et la fer lisa on, Kallale, 16–21 February 2013 Forma on en Techniques de maraichage, 10 2 12 Burkina Faso 24–28 February 2013 Techniques d’extrac on des semences 3 20 23 Niger maraîchères, February 2013 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 42 06/08/2014 12:34:58 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Méthodes d’analyse SEP et recommanda on de 7 4 11 Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso fer lisa on, Niamey, Niger, 4–16 March 2013 2nd Interna onal course on introductory, 18 3 21 Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Zimbabwe, Maputo intermediate and advanced remote sensing, TVC, Niamey, Niger, 18–29 March, 2013 Forma on en Techniques de mul plica on des 5 260 265 Benin semences maraîchères, Kallale, Benin, 8–13 April 2013 Forma on en Ges on intégrée des ennemies de 7 288 295 Benin cultures maraîchères, Kallale, Benin 14–19 April 2013 Forma on en Techniques de BDL, Mayahi, Niger 17 0 17 Niger 15–20 May 2013 Forma on en Ges on intégrée des nuisibles des 2 30 32 Niger cultures maraichères, Birnin N’Gaouré 6–10 May 2013 Forma on en Techniques de BDL, Matameye, 17 5 22 Niger Niger, 21-24 May 2013 Forma on en Techniques d’extrac on des 3 20 23 Niger semences du melon, Birnin N’Gaouré, 17–20 June 2013 Forma on en Techniques de prépara on des bio 2 30 32 Niger pes cides, Birnin N’Gaouré, 8–12 July 2013 Training course on microdosing, warrantage and 11 0 11 Benin, Niger, Nigeria input shop development, ICRISAT-Niamey, 16–20 September 2013 Forma on sur Les techniques culturales de 16 0 16 Niger produc on du moringa et technologie de bio- 43 récupéra on des terres dégradées (BDL) 25–27 September 2013 Par cipants scoring chickpea plants suitable for their respec ve agroecosystems. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 43 06/08/2014 12:34:58 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Forma on en Techniques de pépinière 2 33 35 Niger maraîchère, Birnin N’Gaouré, 14–17 October 2013 Forma on en Techniques de produc on 36 1 37 Niger maraîchère et de mul plica on et stockage de semences, Matameye, Niger, 11–16 November 2013 Forma on en Techniques de produc on 1 29 30 Niger maraîchère et de mul plica on et stockage de semences, Matameye, Niger, 18–23 November 2013 Forma on en Techniques de pépinières 80 20 100 Niger maraîchères, Maradi, Niger, 24–30 November 2013 Excel course, 25 September–25 October 2013 20 7 27 Niger English Training course, 23 September - 06 04 10 Niger 25 November 2013 Sub-total (Niger) 277 1356 1633 Bamako, Mali Forma on sur Les tests culinaires des hybrides, 20 15 35 Mali Djiguidala, 15 January 2013 Forma on sur L’enquête de suivi de la diversité 9 3 12 Mali variétale, Dioïla, 1 April 2013 Atelier de forma on sur Les méthodologies de 15 0 15 Mali sélec on de l’arachide, Samanko, 6–15 May 2013 Forma on sur L’approche CEP par grappe et 26 2 28 Mali essais par cipa fs, Kou ala, 13–15 May 2013 44 Forma on sur La microdose mécanisée et 29 1 30 Mali l’u lisa on du Gro Plus, Samanko, 28–30 May 2013 Forma on en Produc on de semences hybrides 47 10 57 Mali de sorgho, Kou ala, 28 May 2013 Forma on de jeunes producteurs pour la 33 1 34 Mali conduite des champs de démonstra on hybride de sorgho, Dioïla, 1 June 2013 Forma on en Produc on de semences hybrides 38 10 48 Mali de sorgho, Dioïla, 2 June 2013 Tr Forma on sur Microdose mécanisée et 26 3 29 Mali u lisa on de GroPlus, Kou ala, 4–6 June 2013 Forma on des partenaires de l’ICRISAT sur la 32 2 34 Mali microdose mécanisée, le processus de trempage et d’enrobage des semences avec le GroPlus, Kou ala, 4–11 June 2013 Forma on sur L’évalua on par cipa ve des 38 2 40 Mali nouvelles variétés et la diff usion de technologie, Samanko, 1–2 July 2013 Forma on sur Les techniques agricoles et les 38 2 40 Mali techniques de vulgarisa on, Samanko, 1–2 July 2013 Forma on en Produc on de semences hybrides 1 20 21 Mali de sorgho, Siby, 4 July 2013 Forma on en Produc on de semences hybrides 7 52 59 Mali de sorgho, Samanko, 24 September 2013 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 44 06/08/2014 12:35:02 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Training on Groundnut disease screening in 13 2 15 Mali West Africa, ICRISAT Samanko, 21–23 October 2013 Afl atoxin management, Tiele, Mali, 25 October 155 155 Mali 2013 Forma on sur L’évalua on et la valorisa on des 40 5 45 Mali champs de démonstra on de sorghos hybrides, Kou ala, 1–2 November 2013 Training on Pre and post-harvest afl atoxin 120 80 200 Mali management using varietal and demonstra on plots in collabora on with the extension service (Secteur d’Agriculture de 120, Kolokani), 1 November 2013 Forma on sur Africa Rising, Samanko, 23 3 26 Mali 2–3 November 2013 Afl atoxin management, Kita, Mali, 5 November 16 0 16 Mali 2013 Pre and post-harvest management of afl atoxin, 500 500 1000 Mali Kita, Mali, 5 November 2013 Training on Peanut transforma on and post- 180 180 Mali harvest afl atoxin management, Kita, 5 November 2013 Training on Pre and post-harvest afl atoxin 300 200 500 Mali management using varietal and demonstra on plots in partnership with AMASSA-AFRICA GREEN, Kou ala, 13–14 November 2013 Training of NGO agents, Kou ala, Mali, 13–14 5 13 18 Mali November 2013 45 Trainees in a chickpea fi eld. A trainee in a pigeonpea fi eld. Photo: Vidyasagar, ICRISAT Photo: Vidyasagar, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 45 06/08/2014 12:35:07 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Training on Pre and post-harvest afl atoxin 10 0 10 Mali management, Kou ala, 13–14 November 2013 Training on Integrated afl atoxin management, 3 56 59 Mali Sadiola, Kayes, November 2013 Training on Integrated afl atoxin management, 0 155 155 Mali Ouéléssébougo, November 2013 Sub-total (Mali) 1389 1472 2861 Kano, Nigeria Training on Dry season groundnut seed 56 2 58 Nigeria produc on, Kano, 17 January 2013 Pre-season training for extension agents and 17 1 18 Nigeria technicians, Ningi, 1 May 2013 Pre-season training for extension agents and 21 3 24 Nigeria technicians, Kano, 2 May 2013 Pre-season training for extension agents and 11 0 11 Nigeria technicians, Katsina, 10 May 2013 Pre-season training for extension agents and 25 2 27 Nigeria technicians, Dutse, 11 May 2013 Training of enumerators on Household data 12 0 12 Nigeria collec on, Bebeji, 21–22 May 2013 Groundnut value chain stakeholders workshop, 38 4 42 Nigeria 30–31 July 2013 Groundnut oil extrac on machine training, 9 24 33 Nigeria 8 August 2013 Sorghum survey for farmers in Kano state, 21 0 21 Nigeria 14 August 2013 Groundnut farmers and stakeholders workshop, 51 1 52 Nigeria 21 August 2013 46 EAs and stakeholders mid-season training, 11 0 11 Nigeria Katsina, 28 August 2013 EAs and stakeholders pre-season training, Dutse, 23 1 24 Nigeria 3 September 2013 EAs and stakeholders pre-season training, 17 1 18 Nigeria Bauchi, 4 September 2013 Large-scale farmers mee ng and training, 22 0 22 Nigeria 9 September 2013 EAs and stakeholders mid-season training, Kano, 24 0 24 Nigeria 10 September 2013 Hammer mill and groundnut oil extrac on 27 22 49 Nigeria machine demonstra on and training, 10 September 2013 Training in Dry season groundnut seed 51 1 52 Nigeria produc on, Kano, 19 September 2013 Training in Dry season groundnut seed 37 2 39 Nigeria produc on, Dutse, 19 September 2013 Training in Dry season groundnut seed 33 4 37 Nigeria produc on, Bauchi, 20 September 2013 Training in Dry season groundnut seed 31 0 31 Nigeria produc on, Katsina, 20 September 2013 Training for women on Food Security, value 2 29 31 Nigeria addi on, entrepreneurship and sustainability of women's coopera ve, Zango, 9–10 December 2013 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 46 06/08/2014 12:35:17 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Training for women on Food Security, value 1 32 33 Nigeria addi on, entrepreneurship and sustainability of women's coopera ve, Bebeji, 12–13 December 2013 Training for women on Food security, value 0 33 33 Nigeria addi on, entrepreneurship and sustainability of women's coopera ve, Tsanyawa, 16–17 December 2013 Training for women on Food security, value 0 30 30 Nigeria addi on, entrepreneurship and sustainability of women's coopera ve, Gambawa, 19–20 December 2013 Sub-total (Kano) 540 192 732 Nairobi, Kenya Training on Finger millet postharvest handling 5 22 27 Kenya and value addi on, Busia, Kenya, 17–18 January 2013 Data processing using SPSS, Nairobi, 17–26 8 5 13 Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea, Sudan February 2013 Assessing the impacts of climate variability and 22 3 25 Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda change on agricultural systems in Eastern Africa, Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, 26 February– 2 March 2013 Capacity building-cum-training program, 20 3 23 India, Ghana Uganda, 18–23 March 2013 Training on value links, 8–12 April 2013 8 4 12 Kenya, UK, Germany, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda Training on Protocols for yield gap assessment 0 12 12 NARS scien sts from India, Bangladesh, from local to global scale, Cotonou, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, 22–25 April 2013 Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, 47 Ethiopia, Zambia Members of women’s groups busy making dishes from fi nger millet during the training in Busia, Kenya. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 47 06/08/2014 12:35:18 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Training on Trade off analysis Model for Mul - 15 17 32 NARS scien sts from Kenya, Ethiopia, Dimensional Impact Assessment (TOA-MD), Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Dubai, 29 April–3 May 2013 Africa, Mali, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Sta s cs workshop on Data analysis, Nairobi, 24 2 26 Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, 20–29 May 2013 South Sudan, Malawi, Eritrea Credit linkage forum in western Kenya for fi nger 13 8 21 Kenya millet value chain, 19–20 June 2013 Providing eff ec ve climate services to farmers in 26 19 45 Extension offi cers from Makueni, Kenya Makueni County, Wote, Kenya, 24–25 June 2013 Training workshop on DNA extrac on and PCR 7 8 15 Zambia analysis, 26–28 June 2013 Genotyping-by-sequencing for cereals, 5–8 19 12 31 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, August 2013 Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Eritrea, South Africa, Niger Providing eff ec ve climate services to farmers 17 13 30 Extension offi cers from Machakos, in Machakos County, Machakos, Kenya, 14–15 Kenya August 2013 Data processing using SPSS, Asmara, 16 4 20 Eritrea 24 August–1 September 2013 Making the best of climate: Improved planning 355 245 600 Farmers from Wote and Kai divisions, of farm opera ons using climate informa on by Makueni, Kenya farmers, 9–30 September 2013 Chickpea agronomic management and 18 5 23 Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, germplasm maintenance, Nairobi, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Eritrea 10–12 September 2013 48 Sharing knowledge on sorghum hybrid parents improvement during a fi eld demonstra on. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 48 06/08/2014 12:35:22 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Par cipants ICRISAT loca on Name of the course/scien fi c vVisit M F Total Countries Phylogene cs workshop for chickpea and 13 6 19 Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, pigeonpea breeders, 18–20 September 2013 Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya Molecular seed purity tes ng, 23 September– 3 1 4 Malawi 5 October 2013 Gender and value chain analysis, 22–24 October 12 7 19 Zambia 2013 Training course on Applica on of biometrics 17 3 20 Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, and bioinforma cs tools in crop improvement Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, research, Nairobi, Kenya, 4–9 November 2013 Philippines, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda Impact Model training and workshop on 9 2 11 Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, India Foresight and scenario analysis, Nairobi, Kenya, 6–8 November 2013 Capacity building workshop on Partnering 10 9 19 Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, communica ons – Bringing together Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, communica on specialists from diff erent Zimbabwe countries in Africa involved in the HOPE project, Tanzania, 25–28 November 2013 Hybrid pigeonpea technology, seed produc on 15 3 18 Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and integrated crop management, Nairobi, Ethiopia Kenya, 9–14 December 2013 Sub-total (Nairobi) 652 413 1065 Bulawayo, Training workshop on Conserva on agriculture 5 6 11 Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe and fer lizer microdosing, Bulawayo, 17–21 February 2013 49 GRAND TOTAL 2863 3439 6302 ICRISAT-HOPE Project Partnering for Communica ons training workshop in Arusha, Tanzania. Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 49 06/08/2014 12:35:35 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Publica ons Full list available at h p://www.icrisat.org//ICRISAT-staff -publica ons-2013.htm To access digital versions of publica ons, go to h p://oar.icrisat.org 50 Workshops, conferences and mee ngs in 2013 Full list available at h p://www.icrisat.org//ICRISAT-workshops-2013.htm Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 50 06/08/2014 12:35:38 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill The ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill was launched in 2013, aimed at enlisting the support of outstanding personalities in championing the Institute’s mission, and in helping strengthen awareness of and motivate partner organizations and the public alike to act on the need for science-based agricultural solutions in improving the livelihoods and attaining food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers in Asia and sub- Saharan Africa. During the visit of Mr Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda on, to the ICRISAT headquarters in May 2013, he accepted to become the fi rst ICRISAT Ambassador of Goodwill. In the same year, the Ins tute has been honored with the acceptance of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, renowned scien st and 11th President of India, and Rt. Hon. James Bolger, former Prime Minister of New Zealand to be named ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill, joining Mr Gates. Photo: P Panjiar 51 Mr Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda on “ICRISAT crops are great – as they target millions of smallholder farmers globally.” Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT Photo: J Kane-Potaka, ICRISAT Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India Rt. Hon. James Bolger (center), Former Prime Minister of New Zealand “I have no doubt that the developing world stands to “To overcome poverty, hunger and malnutri on, science is benefi t from any technology that can increase food an essen al component that must be behind all our eff orts. produc on, lower food prices, and improve food quality.” ICRISAT plays an important role in this, par cularly in the resource-poor, marginal environments of the world.” AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 51 06/08/2014 12:35:50 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 EXPLOREit @ ICRISAT EXPLOREit @ ICRISAT breaks informa on management barriers, making scien fi c informa on more accessible to the public. EXPLOREit (h p://EXPLOREit.icrisat.org) was launched in 2013 giving the general public easy access to ICRISAT’s 40 years of scien fi c informa on and data. ICRISAT found that typical websites were too restric ve in providing access to informa on due to their single naviga on structure, and databases or searches did not present the informa on in ways that were easy for people to scan the detail of the content. EXPLOREit is based on a new informa on management system called Mul Profi ler consis ng of mul ple naviga ons and easy-to-scan profi les on Nutri on Profi le the subject areas. Informa on can be found according to the diff erent ways people come looking for ICRISAT’s informa on. This was iden fi ed as: topics (eg, climate change, nutri on and crop improvement); crops; types of farming systems; countries; or resource types (eg, 52 publica ons or data). For the fi rst me, ICRISAT also has access to a summary of all its current and past projects, an inventory of all data sources, and a central lis ng of all stories, videos, and more. Complex systems behind the scenes also automa cally feed the majority of informa on to all the relevant profi les. To achieve this, ICRISAT has made a momentous leap in its use of technology – moving from a sta c website to a dynamic site that feeds informa on from databases using consistent metadata as well as harves ng informa on from other websites. A range of technologies are used on the pla orm, adapted depending on the source. This ini a ve is suppor ve of ICRISAT’s open access policy to make ICRISAT’s informa on and data available and accessible globally. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 52 06/08/2014 12:35:57 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Awards 2013 Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT Photo: ICRISAT Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT Dr William Dar receiving the MS Swaminathan Leadership in Agriculture Award for Dr Hari D Upadhyaya received the pres gious 2013 2013 from Dr K Kasturirangan (2nd right), Member (Science), Planning Commission, Crop Science Research Award, as well as the Frank N Government of India. Meyer Medal for Plant Gene c Resources from the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA). 53 Photo: AATSEA Photo: ICRISAT Dr Dar receiving the “Excellence in Agricultural Leadership Dr Rajeev Varshney was given the 2013 Young Award” from Prof Kasem Soytong, President of the Crop Scien st Award by the Crop Science Associa on of Agricultural Technology in Southeast Asia. Society of America (CSSA). Photo: NAAS Photo: ICRISAT Photo: V Suneel, ICRISAT Dr HC Sharma (le ) being conferred a Fellowship Rachit Saxena (right) receiving the Young Mr SM Karuppanche y, Dr SD Mazumdar and by India’s Na onal Academy of Agricultural Scien st Cer fi cate for Plant Gene c Mr S Aravazhi, receiving the Federa on of Indian Science President Dr RB Singh. Resources Award from Dr Krishan Lal, Chambers of Commerce and Industry FOOD 360o President, INSA. Award for Best Incubator category from Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary PK Mohanty. AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 53 06/08/2014 12:36:00 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT in the NEWS 54 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 54 06/08/2014 12:36:33 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT in the NEWS 55 AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 55 06/08/2014 12:36:40 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT locations in the semi-arid tropics ICRISAT locations in the semi-arid tropics Niamey, Niger Bamako, Mali New Delhi, India (Regional offi ce, West (Liaison offi ce) and Central Africa) Hyderabad, India Kano, Nigeria (Global headquaters) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 56 Nairobi, Kenya (Regional offi ce, Eastern and Southern Africa) Lilongwe, Malawi Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Maputo, Mozambique AnnualReport2013_Fgs.indd 56 06/08/2014 12:36:42 PM ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 Vision A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Mission To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutri on and environmental degrada on in the dryland tropics. The Publica on Team Editor-in-chief and writer Cris na P Bejosano Editorial assistance Smitha Sitaraman, Sreeram Banda, Anjana John, Showkat Rather Graphic design and layout Ch Vengala Reddy, K Chandrasekhara Rao, SK Meeravali Produc on support VVS Satyanarayana, MNR Ramesh Distribu on S Ratnam Photo: ICRISAT AnnualReportCover2013_Fgs.indd 2 05/08/2014 12:09:27 PM Inclusiveness for a prosperous and food secure drylands ICRISAT Annual Report 2013 ICRISAT is a member Science with a human face of the CGIAR Consor um The Interna onal Crops Research Ins tute ICRISAT-India ICRISAT-Nigeria for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non- (Headquarters) PMB 3491 profi t, non-poli cal organiza on that conducts Patancheru 502 324 Sabo Bakin Zuwo Road agricultural research for development in Asia Telangana, India Tarauni, Kano, Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array Tel +91 40 30713071 of partners throughout the world. Covering ICRISAT-Liaison Offi ce ICRISAT-Malawi 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 CG Centers Block, NASC Complex Chitedze Agricultural countries, the semi-arid tropics have over Dev Prakash Shastri Marg Research Sta on 2 billion people, of whom 644 million are New Delhi 110 012, India PO Box 1096, Lilongwe, Malawi the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT innova ons help the dryland poor move from poverty ICRISAT-Ethiopia ICRISAT-Mozambique to prosperity by harnessing markets while C/o ILRI Campus C/o IIAM, Av. das FPLM No 2698 managing risks – a strategy called Inclusive PO Box 5689 Caixa Postal 1906 Market-Oriented Development (IMOD). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Maputo, Mozambique ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru ICRISAT-Mali ICRISAT-Kenya near Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with two (Regional hub, WCA) (Regional hub, ESA) regional hubs and six country offi ces in sub- BP 320, Bamako, Mali PO Box 39063, Nairobi, Kenya Saharan Africa. It is a member of the CGIAR ICRISAT-Zimbabwe ICRISAT-Niger Consor um. CGIAR is a global research Matopos Research Sta on BP 12404, Niamey partnership for a food secure future. PO Box 776, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Niger (Via Paris) About ICRISAT: www.icrisat.org ICRISAT’s scien fi c informa on: h p://EXPLOREit.icrisat.org ISSN 1017-9933 Order code: IRE 023 146-2014 Science with a human face AnnualReportCover2013_Fgs.indd 1 05/08/2014 12:09:25 PM About ICRISAT