ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium Science with a human face The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid ICRISAT-Patancheru ICRISAT-Liaison Office ICRISAT-Nairobi Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political organization (Headquarters) CG Centers Block (Regional hub ESA) that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and Patancheru 502 324 NASC Complex PO Box 39063, sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout Andhra Pradesh, India Dev Prakash Shastri Marg Nairobi, Kenya the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in Tel +91 40 30713071 New Delhi 110 012, India 55 countries, the semi-arid tropics have over 2 billion people, of whom 644 million are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT ICRISAT-Bamako ICRISAT-Kano ICRISAT-Niamey (Regional hub WCA) innovations help the dryland poor move from poverty to PMB 3491, BP 12404 BP 320 prosperity by harnessing markets while managing risks – a Sabo Bakin Zuwo Road Niamey, Bamako, Mali Tarauni, Kano, Nigeria Niger (Via Paris) strategy called Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD). ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru near Hyderabad, ICRISAT-Bulawayo ICRISAT-Lilongwe ICRISAT-Maputo Matopos Research Chitedze Agricultural c/o IIAM, Av. das Andhra Pradesh, India, with two regional hubs and five country Station Research Station FPLM No 2698 offices in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a member of the CGIAR PO Box 776 PO Box 1096 Caixa Postal 1906 Consortium. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Lilongwe, Malawi Maputo, secure future. Mozambique ISSN 1017-9933 Order code: IRE 022 184-2013 About ICRISAT www.icrisat.org Citation: ICRISAT Annual Report 2012. 2013. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: 40 pp. ISSN 1017-9933. The Publication Team: Editor-in-Chief and Lydia Flynn Leader of the Publication Team Editorial Assistance Anjana John Chief Graphic and Layout Artist K Chandrasekhara Rao Graphic and Layout Artist SK Meeravali Cover Design L Flynn and Ch Vengala Reddy Production Support VVS Satyanarayana MNR Ramesh Distribution VS Reddy S Ratnam Cover photos: Top to bottom and left to right (L Vidyasagar, Alina Paul-Bossuet, L Vidyasagar, ICRISAT file photo and L Vidyasagar), ICRISAT. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh India Vision A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Mission To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. Goal Partnership-based international agricultural research-for- development that embodies science with a human face. Photo: L Vidyasagar, ICRISAT Approach Farmers of Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh harvest An Inclusive Market-Oriented chickpea. Development (IMOD) approach to take smallholder farmers from poverty to prosperity. This Annual Report is in recognition of more than 300 partners from more than 50 countries, over the last 40 years. Partnerships for Impact Contents Message from the Director General ............................................... 4 Message from the Chair ................................................................. 5 Partnerships for Impact .................................................................. 6 Unraveling the chickpea genome .................................................... 6 Peanuts and partnerships in Mali and Niger ................................... 8 Photo: S Sridharan, ICRISAT Kaffrine farmers forearmed with forecasts ................................... 10 Scaling up training with “Fighting Striga” videos ........................... 12 CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food – Smallholders access quality seed in Malawi .................................. 14 exchange visit, Zimbabwe. Hatching success through agri-business incubators ...................... 16 About ICRISAT ............................................................................... 18 ICRISAT Governing Board 2012 ...................................................... 18 ICRISAT Senior and Collaborative Staff Members .......................... 19 New bilateral projects funded in 2012 .......................................... 23 Financial Summary ........................................................................ 28 Capacity Strengthening ................................................................. 30 Publications ................................................................................... 36 Workshops, Conferences and Meetings in 2012 ........................... 36 Awards 2012 .................................................................................. 37 ICRISAT in the NEWS...................................................................... 38 Message from the Director General The year 2012 was a landmark year for ICRISAT good and improved seed easily available to as we celebrated our fortieth anniversary. farmers. Here too, the excellent partnerships with More importantly, it was a celebration of forty national systems and like-minded private sector years of agricultural research dedicated to partners facilitate the outreach to even remote improving the lives of poor farmers in the semi- villages and farms. arid tropics – and what an eventful period this While our Inclusive Market-Oriented Development has been. We are keenly aware that much of our (IMOD) framework is aimed at assisting success stems from the excellent partnerships we smallholder farmers to move from subsistence enjoy, and this annual report acknowledges the farming to the more rewarding and secure immense contribution of our partners, recognizing market mainstream, our Agribusiness Incubation that our impacts are a credit to our combined Program, of the Agribusiness Innovation Platform, efforts. is fully involved in creating opportunities for Although ICRISAT is widely known as an agency startup businesses to grow into more useful and serious about agricultural research to improve prosperous ventures. Our partner reports on livelihoods, we know that to remain relevant setting up agribusiness incubators in India and we have to respond to current needs, elevate Africa testifies to this. our efforts, and communicate our science and Along with our partners, we take pride in technology to the ultimate beneficiary, the poor reporting that our efforts are showing impact. smallholder farmer. Our report this year bears At this point I would like to also recognize the examples of ongoing successes, achieved through encouragement and guidance given to us by our the strategic partnerships we are fortunate to very engaged Governing Board, by our supportive have established – and this time our partners donors and stakeholders, and by our dedicated themselves contribute to the stories and affirm the staff. I wholeheartedly thank and congratulate you power of partnerships. all. Let us continue to make meaningful impacts, Take for instance the unraveling of the chickpea and realize our vision – prosperous, food-secure genome – ICRISAT and its partners have once and resilient dryland tropics. again demonstrated the power of productive partnerships by achieving this breakthrough in legume genomics, which will play a crucial role in speeding up the development of improved varieties for smallholder farmer crops. In sub-Saharan Africa as well as in Asia, it would have been impossible for ICRISAT alone to spread essential knowledge about effective farming William D Dar practices, or to simplify the process of making Director General Message from the Chair At the outset, let me congratulate ICRISAT on poor infrastructure, hunger, malnutrition and forty years of sterling service and scientific poverty being the hallmarks. But these have been contributions to both agriculture and the overcome to a certain degree with solutions smallholder farmers of the semi-arid tropics. such as microdosing, crop varieties resistant to Around such a significant anniversary, besides pests and disease, early maturing varieties that the celebrations, there was a lot of looking back escape terminal drought, major capacity building and reviewing of our achievements, an activity programs, food safety measures, programs to that naturally leads to plans for the future. What facilitate availability of good seed, and programs are the pitfalls? What works? What needs urgent that enhance livelihoods. Along with its excellent attention? What can we do better? At this science, ICRISAT’s excellent partnerships have juncture, permit me to quote one of my personal been at the crux of many of these solutions. We and favorite mantras, “If you’re not part of the are honored to work with so many excellent solution, you are actually part of the problem.” partners. It is an incredibly powerful mantra, and works at ICRISAT is serious about its mission, and assuming many levels, because it assists one to define the the new responsibilities of the CGIAR Research problem and focus one’s efforts on contributing Programs into our mandate has given us a solutions. new impetus; one that includes “CGIAR family At ICRISAT, we keep re-examining the problems members” as well as partners in Governments, and challenges. That is what science is about. NARES, Research Institutes and Universities. In ICRISAT moves with the times and is constantly this new “avatar”, ICRISAT is even more confident working against new problems, while at the same about achieving its goals. ICRISAT’s approach of time applying new solutions to old problems. Take “Inclusive Market-Oriented Development” is an for example the challenge of pests and diseases. important ingredient in the solutions, one that This is an old problem that keeps recurring continually reminds us about who we are aiming every time immunity wanes or environmental to benefit – a noble goal indeed. conditions change. One of our solutions is our increasing understanding of the plant genome On behalf of my fellow Governing Board structure, which permits scientists to breed and members, I thank ICRISAT, its management, select new varieties and hybrids with inbuilt its staff and its partners for their dedication to defenses in their genetic makeup. improving the lives of the smallholder farmers. Ever since man began to farm some 8000 years Finally, I am convinced that ICRISAT will continue ago, farmers have been subject to the vagaries to be part of the solution. of the elements and have been searching for solutions for just as long. Farmers in the semi- arid tropics have faced more than their fair Nigel Poole share of challenges– poor soils, erratic rainfall, Chair, Governing Board Photo: UC Davis Rajeev Varshney (left) and Prof Doug Cook in a “ready for harvest” chickpea field at ICRISAT headquarters. Unraveling the chickpea genome 49 scientists from 23 organizations in 10 countries, coordinated by ICRISAT In 1866, Gregor Mendel characterized hereditary Genomics Institute (BGI)-Shenzhen, China, units as factors — observable differences that with key involvement of national partners in were passed from parent to offspring, and sixty Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, years ago, Watson and Crick proposed the double Germany, India, Mexico, Spain and the USA – an helix model of DNA. Today, we know that a international team comprising 49 scientists from genome is the total amount of genetic information 23 organizations in 10 countries. The chickpea of a living organism, in the form of DNA, needed genome sequence was completed by the end of to build and maintain a living example of that 2012 and announced in January 2013. organism. Successful sequencing of the chickpea genome Discovering the genetic code of a living thing is (after pigeonpea genome sequencing in 2011) always exciting, and more so when the newly is a true example of the power of partnerships. discovered information has great implications Organizations with complementary expertise were for improved food and ultimately improved brought together by ICRISAT – to contribute funds, livelihoods of farmers. genomic and genetic resources, and large-scale analyses. As a result, this partnership not only The International Chickpea Genome Sequencing delivered the draft genome sequence of chickpea Consortium (ICGSC) undertook the chickpea but also generated re-sequencing data of ninety genome sequencing project led by ICRISAT, chickpea lines. These analyses provided insights the University of California-Davis, and Beijing into domestication that will help to increase the ICRISAT 6 Annual Report 2012 efficiency of chickpea improvement by integrating biotechnological tools into conventional breeding. “The chickpea genome sequence is expected to help in the development of superior varieties with enhanced tolerance to drought and resistance to several biotic stresses. India will benefit most from this genome sequence, as it is the largest producer of chickpea. This is by far the most significant collaboration between ICAR, ICRISAT and the global genomics community,” said Dr Swapan Datta, Deputy Director General - Crop Science, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Professor Jun Wang, Director of BGI, says, “The collaboration between BGI and ICRISAT has yielded great achievements in crops research. I believe (Left) Features of the chickpea genome and (right) diverse that our partnership will revolutionize research germplasm lines used for re-sequencing and analysis. on orphan crops, which are key staples in many Development Corporation (Australia), Indo-German low-income countries and extremely important to Science Technology Corporation (Germany and India), smallholder farmers worldwide.” National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research “This genome sequence will provide the basis for a and Technology (Spain), National Research Initiative of wide range of studies, from the important goal of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, accelerated breeding, to identifying the molecular Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech basis of a range of key agronomic traits, to basic Republic and the European Regional Development studies of chickpea biology,” said Professor Doug Fund, University of Cordoba, ICAR, BGI and ICRISAT. Cook from the University of California-Davis. Renowned agricultural scientist and Member of the Dr David Bergvinson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Indian Parliament, Prof MS Swaminathan says, “I Foundation, commented, “Making the chickpea compliment the excellent scientific work done by Rajeev genome available to the global research community Varshney and his colleagues in developing a high-quality is an important milestone to address nutritional genome sequence of chickpea. The knowledge provided security. We look forward to seeing how researchers by this study will help accelerate the improvement of around the globe will harness this resource to this crop through marker-assisted breeding.” increase chickpea productivity against the backdrop Prof Tim Close, Geneticist at the Department of of climate change in the developing world.” Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, observes, “There has been a paradigm Dr Rajeev Varshney, project leader, explains the shift in biological research during the past few years, breakthrough. An international like-minded group driven largely by a more than 2,000-fold reduction of scientists came together at the Vth International in the cost of DNA sequencing, and simultaneous Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics improvements in computational methods. The rise in Asilomar, USA in 2010. “We all agreed it was of model systems has completely reshaped the high time that we had a genome sequence for landscape: each organism can be studied directly, and chickpeas,” he said. Dr Varshney is also the its significance determined by economic, social and Comparative and Applied Genomics Theme Leader ecological relevance. Here, we have an example of an of the CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme international, culturally diverse group of individuals (GCP), coordinator of the ICGSC, and Director of who have worked together to bring this paradigm shift the Center of Excellence in Genomics at ICRISAT. firmly into the realm of a crop of major importance. The initiative was funded by the CGIAR GCP, US It is inspiring!” National Science Foundation, Saskatchewan The work reported in this article is continuing under the Pulse Growers (Canada), Grains Resource CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 7 Photo: D Dembele, ICRISAT ICRISAT scientists with partners from Plan Mali- Sanambelé. Peanuts and partnerships in Mali and Niger ICRISAT with farmer organizations and eight NGOs “News of our accomplishments in the initial 2 pilot ICRISAT developed a range of improved groundnut villages, spread like wildfire,” said Mr Moussa varieties, and in collaboration with NGOs in Mali Hamma Diallo, Coordinator of Plan Mali’s program and Niger, evaluated them in farmer participatory with ICRISAT in the Sanankoroba district of Mali, variety trials in target villages. Farmers helped with “With such high demand from the women’s groups, the evaluation and selected those that met their the program was extended to 17 villages in 2012 criteria. The average yield of the new varieties ranged involving more than 600 women, and more are to be from 15-25% increase over the farmers’ variety, also added in 2013.” increasing enthusiasm at the prospect of income Groundnut (peanut) is the major source of livelihood generation and improved nutrition. for small-scale farmers in the West African countries of The partnerships in Mali and Niger include Mali and Niger. It is generally seen as a woman’s crop farmer organizations and eight NGOs – Aga Khan in these countries, with a high percentage of individual Foundation, Plan Mali, Sahel 21, Adaf Galle, MALI plots being cultivated by women. Women are ESPOIR, AMASSA-AFRICA GREEN, and AMED in Mali essential in the fight against malnutrition and poverty, and MORIBEN in Niger. especially rural women, who not only contend with poverty, but who have unequal resources and social Recounting the start of the partnership, services such as land, health and education. ICRISAT Mr Diallo said, “We found that women grow is therefore helping to empower these women by mainly groundnuts on small plots for household facilitating access to improved seeds, and training consumption, so our Kati Unit Program, known as them on cultivation and post-harvest management. Saving for Change, explored the idea of introducing ICRISAT 8 Annual Report 2012 improved groundnut varieties from ICRISAT to women groups. We selected the Bougoula and Sanambelé villages as a pilot test we called Friends of the Village Children. At the initiation of the partnership in the 2009-10 cropping season, the country director of Plan Mali, Mr Michelet William said, “Although our program is focusing on the nutrition of children, empowering their mothers is essential to enhance their well-being, especially in the remote villages where there are limited resources, extreme poverty and malnutrition. We are pleased to partner with ICRISAT to avail new groundnut varieties for the rural poor, chiefly women Photo: A Traore, ICRISAT and children”. Mr Diallo further added, “Teamwork has developed well, and we are now producing seed A bumper harvest of groundnut – outcome of a good partnership. of a preferred variety in four villages. The women now have access to agricultural equipment and farm animals. Facilitators in the team have mastered the taught them techniques to improve soil fertility.” He also use of rainfall records and data collection, and we reports, “We constructed a warehouse and a groundnut have co-opted village animators to accompany the store, and have made provision of a revolving fund for Plan-ICRISAT partnership in all 17 villages.” the procurement of seed.” Mr Sedou Togola, Director General of Sahel 21, Other outcomes of ICRISAT’s partnerships for groundnut Mali, reports on their partnership achievements production in the region include: with a hint of pride, “We have made available five • In collaboration with NGOs such as the Aga Khan improved varieties of groundnut in seven villages, Foundation, Amassa-Africa Green, ADAF GALLE, trained more than 60 producers (mainly women) CAAD and extension services in Mali, nearly 3000 on techniques for producing certified seed, helped farmers (60% women) have received training in two women’s groups to purchase oxen and a integrated crop management to enhance groundnut plough, and increased awareness of research results productivity and control aflatoxin contamination. through annual field days. • Women’s groups in Niger’s Dosso department are “This meets the objectives we committed to on now producing 65% of the certified groundnut seed 7 June 2011, when we formalized our partnership in Niger. Seed producers have been linked to grain with ICRISAT – to introduce new groundnut varieties producers to supply local processors with good adapted to drier areas of Kolokani District, the quality produce, thus creating a market pool for Sahel 21 intervention areas; develop sustainable quality seed production. The women seed and grain production systems and community-based seed producers have been assisted with draft animals and production; contribute to increasing women’s ploughs, and processors in turn have been assisted income, capacity building, food security and with small-scale oil extraction machines to reduce enhanced nutrition,” he continued. drudgery. In collaboration with the Wadache Farmers Mr Oumar Coumare, Supervisor Faladie and organization, 1100 farmers also received training in Tominian Districts of the Association des integrated aflatoxin contamination management. Organisations Paysans Professionnel (AOPP) says • Partnerships have indeed made a difference to of the partnership efforts, “Producers start to women farmers in West Africa, as is apparent remember the history of their varieties and reflect from this happy announcement of Mr Diallo (Plan on their progress. There is a revival of interest Mali), “The village chiefs are now allocating better in deepening the knowledge and expertise to land than ever before to the women for groundnut conserve genetic diversity. We have strengthened cultivation!” the capacity of producers in marketing and storage The work reported in this article is continuing under the CGIAR of seed and in the fight against aflatoxin, and have Research Program on Grain Legumes. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 9 Photo: J Hansen, CCAFS Farmers training workshop on the interpretation and application of seasonal rainfall forecasts in Kaffrine, Senegal. Kaffrine farmers forearmed with forecasts The National Meteorological Service, agronomists and agricultural extension, along with CGIAR scientists as a catalyst Kaffrine is a region in central arid Senegal prone The seasonal forecasts are innovative in their own to recurrent climatic hazards such as flooding right and stem from state-of-the-art advances in and dry spells. Here, climate forecasters from the climate model output downscaling to the specific Senegal’s Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile region of Kaffrine, using the Climate Prediction et de la Meteorologie (ANACIM) and agricultural Tool developed at the International Research extension workers from the National Department Institute for Climate and Society (IRI, based in of Agriculture have joined hands since 2011 to help Columbia University, USA), in an attempt to get farmers overcome climate risks. One partner uses high closer to the geographical scale where farmers level science to obtain weather and climate forecast can make decisions. Once the downscaled information, while the other spreads the knowledge to forecast for Kaffrine is received from the National farmers of the region with forecasts and early warning Meteorological Service, agronomists and advisories, enabling them to make better on-farm agricultural extension experts based in Kaffrine decisions. add value to the received information on likely climate conditions, keeping in mind the specific Behind this salutary partnership, the first of its kind risks these will yield, and recommend mitigation in Senegal, is the CGIAR Research Program on Climate measures. This demonstrates a good practice Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)-funded example where climate scientists collaborate with project to support the production and communication agricultural researchers to produce a tailored of downscaled probabilistic seasonal forecasting to agromet advisory usable by farmers to guide their improve decisions made by farmers in Kaffrine. farm-level operations. ICRISAT 10 Annual Report 2012 “For once, we see our forecasts on weather and climate being useful for farmers and for development in the country,” states Dr Ousmane Ndiaye, Columbia University trained climate scientist who returned to Senegal in 2011 and took the lead in this CCAFS-ICRISAT project. “The information was new to farmers, but actually the farmers were very keen and enthusiastic, and did show up for the first training. After the training they shared the information and keep coming for other training as well. So we keep training, and felt Photo: J Hansen, CCAFS that we were filling an actual gap. Building trust was very important for us, so that the farmers can use our Farmer workshop participants examine a rain gauge in the field. information. We build trust by trying to connect our climate information to things that are well known to those who have the information and those who need farmers – the indigenous knowledge.” it will not, however, happen in a vacuum; scientists Building strong partnerships at the national level and and development partners will need to mediate and enabling the institutional framework for collaboration actively support this process. among relevant technical departments is indeed The CCAFS-ICRISAT partnership served this crucial role of a prerequisite to the successful uptake of climate boundary organization in Senegal, through unrelenting services by farmers. Climate and weather forecasts and iterative stakeholder meetings and scoping of farmer produced by the National Hydro-Meteorological information needs in climate services. This process services in the region are of no value to farmers, today has engendered a solid partnership between unless downscaled to fit the geographic area and ANACIM and Senegal’s Department of Agriculture, which have value added with agricultural extension support. will outlive the project itself, and has already started Only the agricultural researchers and planners can to demonstrate beneficial results for the local farmer provide such support. communities in Kaffrine. As such, partnerships between forecasters and “The information provided by the Department of national knowledge hubs have to be enabled, Agriculture and the national Meteorological service are and spaces opened for relevant partners to useful to us. We now know when to expect the beginning dialogue and pool their expertise in response to of the rains and whether the rains will stop during the farmers’ information needs. Such a process of season. Because of this information, today we are able to bridging the gap at the national level between better plan our farming activities!” exclaims a woman farmer from Sikilo, one of the target villages of Kaffrine, The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, where the seasonal outlook and agrometeorological Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a advisories have been shared with farmers since 2011. strategic collaboration to address the increasing This is indeed research for development. In 2013 and challenge of global warming and declining food beyond, CCAFS plans to scale up this approach so that security. millions more farmers can have access and benefit Led by CGIAR Consortium member the from available climate information and advisory International Center for Tropical Agriculture services in Kaffrine, and throughout the rest of Africa (CIAT), CCAFS collaborates with all 15 CGIAR and South Asia. research centers, ICRISAT included, as well as with the other CGIAR thematic research programs. In the meantime, national partners at ANACIM gear up for yet another risk-prone June-July-August rainy CCAFS brings together the world’s best season, during which they will continue to monitor risks researchers in agricultural science, climate over Kaffrine and support farmers in the region with science, environmental and social sciences downscaled climate information and advisory services. to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between The work reported in this article is continuing under the climate change and agriculture. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 11 Photo: P Van Mele, Agro-Insight Large-scale community mobilization and engaging farmers with evening shows of the DVDs. Scaling up training with “Fighting Striga” videos Media companies, rural radio broadcasters, NGOs and farmer organizations, backed by scientists Striga is a killer weed that sucks the life out of researchers, play a bigger role from being mere crops in West Africa, but training videos on teachers, to facilitators of knowledge exchange fighting Striga are helping to control this scourge. between farmers and other stakeholders. Within nine months, the number of viewers rose Since 2006, ICRISAT and partners have conducted to over 15,000, due mostly to efforts of partners. farmer field schools to experiment with a wide range Several NGOs, farmer organizations and rural of Striga control options. As a result, they developed radio broadcasters have responded positively to ISSFM practices for pearl millet and sorghum the request for feedback and often request more cultivation. However, the scarcity of skilled trainers DVDs, technical support documents and training and the need for maintaining quality training were of their field agents. bottlenecks in scaling up. Through concerted efforts Physical uprooting of the weed combined with and intense collaboration with the private company proper soil fertility management are the key Agro-Insight, and with ICRISAT partners in Ghana, lessons presented in the videos. Besides providing Mali, Niger and Nigeria, ICRISAT produced a series new knowledge, the videos engage large numbers of ten farmer-to-farmer ISSFM videos in French and of farmers who are exposed to and discuss English, and translated these into six major West integrated Striga and soil fertility management African languages (Bambara, Bomu, Hausa, Mooré, (ISSFM). Also, field agents, technicians and Peulh and Zarma) in early 2012. ICRISAT 12 Annual Report 2012 All language versions were put onto a multi-language DVD, called “Fighting Striga”, and a distribution and monitoring plan was made with stakeholders from four focus countries – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria. Partners included local, national and regional organizations, ranging from national research institutes, chambers of agriculture and NGOs, to farmer organizations, rural radio stations and seed companies. Of the 30,000 DVDs produced in Mali and Nigeria, over 20,000 copies have already been distributed. ICRISAT distributed DVDs to partners and other strategic development agencies who then further distributed the DVDs Photo: P Van Mele, Agro-Insight within their own network of partners, who in turn “We find someone to play the DVDs and watch with our distributed them even further (third level). Through families and friends,” say farmers in Sindala village, Mali. intensive data collection and monitoring, it became regionally relevant and locally appropriate farmer-to- clear that within a year the DVDs had reached farmer training videos. 2150 representatives in 700 organizations from 43 countries. These videos are also used by the international NGO, Access Agriculture, who operates a video- and audio- “The farmers enjoyed watching the (Arabic version) sharing web-based platform (www.accessagriculture. videos, which encouraged them to comment and org) devoted to agricultural support in developing fully participate in discussions,” said Noureldin countries, and open to all. They also makes videos Ahmed Abdalla, Sudan Meteorological Authority, available by large-scale multiplication and dissemination Khartoum, Sudan. based on national demand. It is too early to assess total impact, but several The videos continue to be translated into new partners observed communities mobilizing languages, eg, Dagaari, Sisaala, Dagbani, Gonja, themselves for hand pulling of Striga, or digging Kusaal, Buli and Frafra for northern Ghana. Several and filling compost pits in Mali and Niger at the end governmental and non-governmental organizations of the 2012 rainy season. They stated that this was discovered the quality and relevance of the videos (via a direct response to watching the videos. the Access Agriculture website) and have had them “The communities understood that fighting Striga translated into Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili (Kenya), requires concerted efforts to attain results, and I Chichewa (Malawi), Dendi, Bariba and Nago (Benin). have already seen examples of community action Some agencies also support large-scale production to hand pull Striga,” says Ali Mamane Aminou from of the DVDs and intend to broadcast the videos on the farmer organization, FUMAGASKIYA in Maradi, national television, further increasing availability and Niger. visibility. While the prime goals of the videos were to “We were thrilled to see how quickly institutions train farmers and extension agents, universities responded to these videos. Since they were hosted in Africa and Europe have included the DVDs in on the Access Agriculture website, many have come BSc and MSc curricula. They found the videos a forward to invest in getting the videos translated into useful tool to illustrate the reality of smallholder local languages and make these available again in the farming in Africa, while at the same time showing public domain for any agricultural service provider new technologies and approaches to participatory to view and download. The videos are now reaching research. The “Fighting Striga” videos developed audiences not only in West Africa, but also in Eastern by ICRISAT, Agro-Insight and partners are effective and Southern Africa”, says Dr Paul Van Mele, Chairman because they are made after strong interactions of Access Agriculture. with farmers through participatory approaches The work reported in this article is continuing under the CGIAR such as farmer field schools, thereby resulting in Research Programs on Dryland Cereals and Dryland Systems. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 13 Photo: ICRISAT Groundnut (peanut) harvest in Malawi (Inset: NASFAM Farma Nuts, photo: NASFAM). Smallholders access quality seed in Malawi The National Smallholder Farmer Association and ICRISAT In 2012, over 700 metric tons of groundnut seed seed through technical support to smallholder was distributed through the Farm Input Subsidy farmers involved in growing groundnuts. Before Programme in Malawi. This is a newsworthy ICRISAT and NASFAM launched this partnership, achievement, as fourteen years ago certified seed there was a high demand for groundnuts in of legumes was unheard of in Malawi, and it was domestic, regional and also in the international only between 1998 and 2000 that the government arena. This partnership aimed at promoting made efforts to produce certified seed of production of groundnut and other grain legumes groundnuts and other legumes. Unfortunately, in the smallholder sector and providing capacity due to poor management this effort only survived for smallholders to access better markets on the one phase. Brighter days arose in 2000 when domestic, regional and international levels. the National Smallholder Farmer Association Right from the start, there was determination to of Malawi (NASFAM) and ICRISAT formed a improve the seed quality, which was the biggest partnership that was to widen progress in these concern of the two organizations. The groundnut efforts. Today, smallholder farmers, many more seed production program commenced in 2003, than just those affiliated to NASFAM, enjoy and the partners chose the traditional groundnut enhanced access to quality seed. producing districts of Malawi – Mchinji, Kasungu The NASFAM-ICRISAT partnership was first and South Mzimba – as the sites for the program. established with funding from USAID. This NASFAM affiliated farmers had earlier grown ongoing project involved the multiplication of groundnut in these areas. ICRISAT 14 Annual Report 2012 The improved seed is initially produced by an ICRISAT breeder and is then multiplied through a contractual system with farmers, who are carefully selected based on a set of given criteria. The provided “Basic” seed is further increased into the next category called “Certified” seed. It is the certified seed that is used to produce high quality grain. The Seed Unit of the Department of Agricultural Research Services inspects the seed crop at various stages of development until harvesting. Once harvested, the Seed Unit takes samples for determination of quality, and issues a certificate if the seed meets the standards. Photo: NASFAM The seed that receives certification is then made available for sale or provision to the farmers for NASFAM- ICRISAT training in progress. commercial grain production. The program process is rigorous and focuses a lot on the capacity development of both NASFAM seed. In addition, seed production training on staff as well as the farmers. The training package certified seed is conducted all year to build capacity involves ICRISAT staff visiting the groundnut to meet quality standards and specifications in the growing Associations to train staff at the onset processing. In 2005, NASFAM introduced the sale of each season. Residential trainings with the of NASFAM Farma Nuts Super Grade Raw Nuts. To Association Field Officers are held annually and go further along the value chain, the organization last for two to three days. These trainings are also introduced Farmers Pride NASFAM Roasted compact and involve lectures and field days that and Salted Peanuts in 2007. Technology adoption are crucial, as they enhance the knowledge of the has been widespread. At present almost every staff trained in the process of seed production farmer in Mchinji grows new varieties of groundnut and the knowledge of the parent material demonstrating that they are now capable of (seed), principles of seed production and Good understanding, applying and adapting the farming Agricultural Practices. practices they were taught. ICRISAT has been able to extend the training The partnership has also significantly contributed to NASFAM staff by adding other legumes or to the legume crop diversification agenda, where NASFAM commodities such as sunflower, coffee NASFAM has witnessed a remarkable increase in and chilies to the training package. Over the groundnut production in the previously dominant years, ICRISAT and NASFAM have seized such tobacco producing areas like Kasungu and Mzimba opportunities to share the latest farming research Districts. practices. Although mostly grown in the Central Region of NASFAM generally provides its member Malawi, groundnut still counts as an important food Associations with a deeper level of technical legume in smallholder agriculture. It provides up assistance and acts as a conduit through which to 25% to 30% of household agricultural income. results from research on new technologies and For smallholder farmers, there is hope that they crop varieties are made available to farmers. will continue to get advisory and training services ICRISAT, on the other hand as a research institute from ICRISAT and have a well-established feedback developing improved varieties, provides the initial mechanism to respond to variety development and seed so that many farmers can have access to adoption, all of which is beneficial to them, their good quality seed of the best varieties. community, and the nation. Through the partnership, smallholder farmers The work reported in this article is continuing under the have ready access to good quality, affordable CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 15 Photo: ICRISAT Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (former President of India) inaugurates the NIABI 2012 conference in the presence of Dr WD Dar (left) and Director of IARI, Dr HS Gupta. Hatching success through agri-business incubators South-South collaboration between India and Africa “ Through ICRISAT’s help and expertise we have ICRISAT’s ABI works as a global platform for increased the technology commercialisation in transferring technologies developed by ICRISAT India from 40 agro-technologies in 2010-11 to 93 (or jointly with partners) to the private/public technologies in 2012-13. We have also enhanced sector. It also provides services in technology, the number of start-up clients from 60 to more than business development, resource mobilization and 600 across 2012. This brought in revenues above infrastructural facilities to fledgling agri-businesses. US$ 2 million through the 10 business planning and development units,” said Dr PS Pandey, National A noteworthy area of collaboration is with the Coordinator, Indian Council of Agricultural Research Indian national agricultural research and extension (ICAR). system to strengthen development of farmer Dr Pandey was referring to the business planning linkages through Public Private Partnership and development units (BPDs) that ICRISAT’s Agri- mechanisms, such as the BPD units. In conjunction Business Incubator (ABI) helped to “handhold and with this, ICAR initiated the National Agricultural mentor”. Partnerships were key to this success, and Innovation Project (NAIP), funded by the World lessons learned in India were transferred to Africa Bank, which aims to accelerate the collaborative where new partnerships were formed to assist in the development and application of novel agricultural establishment of six agri-business incubators. technologies. ICRISAT 16 Annual Report 2012 After a successful pilot project in 2009, through which NAIP set up 10 BPD units in its research institutes and State Agricultural Universities, the BPDs and ICRISAT-ABI formed the Network of Indian Agri-Business Incubators (NIABI) to accelerate and support the process of encouraging the national agricultural system to embrace entrepreneurship development. Working through the potent partnership of NIABI, several budding businesses are showing promise of succeeding and scaling up in a relatively short time. “NIABI was instrumental in promoting the concept of agri-businesses through BPDs. In a short span of NIABI, a gateway for agri-business ventures to take off. three years, ICRISAT-ABI has done a commendable job of incubating start-up entrepreneurs, commer- According to UniBRAIN Facility Coordinator, Mr Ralph cialis ing agro-technologies and benefitting the von Kaufmann, “UniBRAIN’s tripartite (university, farmers through new products and access to business, research) collaboration is an innovative model, markets. The three initial agri-business incubation and ICRISAT should be proud to be contributing to its conferences since 2011 helped in creating a validation and growth through a partnership with competitive atmosphere among the BPDs by FARA, ANAFE, PanAAC, ASARECA, CORAF/WECARD and acknowledging the best performance of the CCARDESA.” incubators and incubatees. Overall, ICRISAT’s Agribusiness and Innovation Platform “I am really thankful to ICRISAT for successfully (of which ABI is a component) has extended its successful contributing to making NIABI what it is today! This experience into Africa as part of the ICRISAT South-South has instilled confidence in us to further increase Initiative. This includes: the number of incubators by another ten, taking the overall total to twenty BPDs across the country, and • Mentoring the six UniBRAIN Agribusiness Innovation making us pioneers in the world with the maximum and Incubation Consortia in five African countries number of agri-incubators,” said Dr Pandey. (Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Uganda and Zambia). • Being the Implementing Agency for two projects In 2011, to help sustain the rising demand for jobs, of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, incomes and value added agricultural products in Government of India, under the India-Africa Forum sub-Saharan Africa, ICRISAT launched a South-South Summit-II: Initiative (IS-SI) for Indian-African partnerships in agricultural research-for-development. This i. Food Processing Business Incubation Centers will increased the reach and impact of ICRISAT in the be established in Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali global fight against poverty and hunger, a reach and Uganda, to help local entrepreneurs to scale- that has been extended further by the participation up food processing businesses. of ICRISAT-ABI in the Universities, Business and ii. Setting up Food Testing Laboratories in Gambia, Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN) Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda and initiative, which is led by the Forum for Agricultural Zimbabwe, to provide local entrepreneurs with Research in Africa (FARA) with generous support access to the state-of-the art, ISO 17025:2005 from the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs accredited facilities so that they can produce high (Danida). UniBRAIN is promoting agribusiness quality and safe food products that comply with incubation in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting international standards. the six agribusiness incubators mentioned Based on the high rate of success from these partnerships, earlier, which now form the nucleus of an African plans are underway for increased investment to more network, similar to NIABI. In addition, food than double the number of agri-business incubators in processing incubation centers and food testing India in the very near future, and to further extend this laboratories have also been set up in Africa. success in the African continent. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 17 ICRISAT Governing Board 2012 Nigel Poole, UK S Ayyappan, India Chair, ICRISAT Governing Board Vice-Chairman, ICRISAT Governing Board 8, Knowles Avenue Secretary to the Govt of India, Dept of Crowthrone Agricultural Research and Education Berks, RG45 6DU, UK (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 International Crops Research Institute Ministry of Agriculture for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Department of Agriculture Patancheru and Cooperation Andhra Pradesh 502 324, India Krishi Bhavan New Delhi 110 001, India Deborah Delmer, USA Chandra A Madramootoo, Canada 33 Riverside Dr., Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Apt. 1A1/2A1 Environmental Sciences New York NY 10023 Department of Bioresource Engineering USA McGill University Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Québec H9X 3V9, Canada Molapo Qhobela, South Africa Oluwande Muoyo Vice Principal - Institutional Development Plot 288 Akin Oluybade Street, The University of South Africa, OR Tambo Victoria Island Lagos Building, 12th floor, Office #17, Pretoria Nigeria Republic of South Africa Adama Traore, Mali Minnie Mathew, India Executive Secretary & Research Director Chief Secretary to the Govt of Andhra Pradesh National Committee on Agricultural Secretariat Research (CNRA) Hyderabad 500 022 Boulkassouombougou India Rue 599 Bamako, Mali (West Africa) Gry Synnevag, Norway Meryl Williams, Australia NORAGRIC – Centre for International 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 ICRISAT 18 Annual Report 2012 ICRISAT Senior and Collaborative Staff Members Name, Designation, Country of Origin Patancheru (Headquarters) AJ Rama Rao, Head, Human Resources Kaushal Kishor Garg, Scientist, Director General’s Office Services (NRS), India Watersheds, India William D Dar, Director General, O/o CN Reddy, Head, Medical Services, Tomohiro Kurai, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan Director General, Philippines India Richard P Burgos, Chief of Staff (CoS)- K Mohan Sharma, Senior Manager, G Pardhasaradhi, Manager, Soil and Plant DG’s Office, Philippines Human Resources Services, India Analytical Laboratory, India Prabhakar Pathak, Principal Scientist (Soil C Geetha, Head - DG’s Office, O/o Housing and Food Services & Water Mgt), India Director General, India (until 31 Oct K Ravi Shankar, Head - Housing and K Ramu, Scientist (Post-Doctoral), Resilient 2012) Food Services, India Dryland Systems, India, (until 24 Dec Dr G Narendra Kumar, Director, 2012) Country Relations and Business Security Office Affairs, Country Relations and TD Peter, Head - Security Services, AVR Kesava Rao, Scientist Business Affairs (New Delhi), India India (Agroclimatology), India S Raghavendra Rao, Manager Prabhat Kumar, Director, Business & Purchase, Supplies and Disposal (Watersheds), India Country Relations, (New Delhi), India, Services GL Sawargaonkar, Special Project (until 8 Oct 2012) PN Mallikarjuna, Head - PSDS, India Scientist (Agronomy), India Strategic Marketing and Financial Services Takeshi Watanabe, Special Project Communication Rajesh Agrawal, Director, Finance, Scientist, Japan Joanna Kane-Potaka, Director, Strategic India Impact Assessment Office Marketing and Communication, S Sethuraman, Head - Financial Kizito Mazvimavi, Head, Impact Australia Services, India (until 15 Jul 2012) Assessment Office, Zimbabwe Rex L Navarro, Interim Director, Supriya Bansal, Financial Controller / Strategic Marketing and Communica- Head - Financial Services, UK Research Program - Markets, tion, Philippines (until 30 Nov 2012) PV Gopiramanan, Manager, Treasury Institutions and Policies Cristina P Bejosano, Head, Public and Operations, India M Cynthia S Bantilan, Research Program Awareness and Marketing Support, MS Raju, Senior Manager, Project Director - Markets, Institutions and Philippines Finance, India Policies, Philippines Lydia Flynn, Senior Editor-in-Chief, India Ch Sridhar, Manager, CRP Finance and P Parthasarathy Rao, Assistant Research R Narsing Rao, Manager, Grants and MIS, Financial Services, India Program Director and Principal Scientist (Economics), India Contracts, India Deputy Director General’s Office G Basavaraj, Scientist (Economics), India Murli M Sharma, Senior Manager - David A Hoisington, Deputy Director Protocol, Visitors and Travel Services, Madhusudan Bhattarai, Principal General (Research), USA India Scientist (Economics), Nepal B Hanumanth Rao, Senior Manager - Mark D Winslow, Marketing Specialist, D Kumara Charyulu, Scientist Intellectual Property, India USA (Agricultural Economics), India Alina Paul Bossuet, Consultant, France Research Program - Resilient Uttam Kumar Deb, Principal Scientist Jerome Bossuet, Consultant, France Dryland Systems - Economics (Village Level Studies), Bangladesh Internal Audit Peter Q Craufurd, Research Program TN Menon, Head, Internal Audit, Director - Resilient Dryland Systems, Chanda G Goodrich, Principal Scientist (Empower Women), India ICRISAT & Associate Director (Asia), UK CGIAR-IAU, India SP Wani, Assistant Research Program N Nagaraj, Principal Scientist Swati Jain, Manager, Internal Audit, Director - Resilient Dryland Systems (Economics), India India & Principal Scientist (Watersheds), S Nedumaran, Scientist (Economics), India India Human Resources Services KH Anantha, Scientist, Watersheds, R Padmaja, Scientist (Gender Research), Hector V Hernandez, Director, India India Human Resources and Operations, Girish Chander, Scientist (Soil Science), A Amarender Reddy, Special Project Philippines India Scientist (Economics), India ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 19 Research Program - Grain Legumes PT Lekha, Special Project Scientist Kiran K Sharma, Principal Scientist (Cell CLL Gowda, Research Program Director (Applied Genomics), India Biology) and Director, PTTC and Chief - Grain Legumes, India Nalini Mallikarjuna, Principal Scientist Executive Officer, Agribusiness and Hari D Upadhyaya, Assistant Research (Cell Biology), India Innovation Platform, India Program Director - Grain Legumes & KAVS Krishna Mohan, Special Project Mamta Sharma, Senior Scientist Principal Scientist and Head, Gene Scientist (Computational Genomics), (Legumes Pathology), India Bank, India India Shivali Sharma, Scientist (Genetic Gaurav Agarwal, Special Project Myer G Mula, Scientist (Seed Systems), Resources), India Scientist (Applied Genomics), India Philippines Vikas Kumar Singh, Special Project Sarwar Azam, Special Project Scientist Suresh Pande, Principal Scientist Scientist (Applied Genomics), India (Computational Genomics), India (Pathology), India Pallavi Sinha, Special Project Scientist Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, Senior Manish K Pandey, Special Project (Functional Genomics), India Scientist (Cell/Molecular Biology), Scientist, India S Srinivasan, Special Project Scientist India GV Ranga Rao, Special Project Scientist (Chickpea Breeding), India K Hima Bindu, Scientist (DST-INSPIRE), (IPM), India Hari Kishan Sudini, Scientist India Abhishek Rathore, Senior Scientist (Groundnut Pathology), India Pooran M Gaur, Principal Scientist (Biometrics), India (Chickpea Breeding), India Mahendar Thudi, Scientist (Applied B Venkateswara Rao, Manager, Field Genomics and Genotype Service S Gopalakrishnan, Scientist Research Operations (Chickpea Laboratory), India (Bioproducts), Grain Legumes, India Breeding), India Rajeev K Varshney, Director, Centre of Anupama J Hingane, Special Project K Narsimha Reddy, Manager, Excellence in Genomics (CEG), India Scientist (Pigeonpea Breeding), India Germplasm Conservation, India P Janila, Scientist (Groundnut Manish Roorkiwal, Special Project K Mohan Vishnuvardhan, Special Breeding), India Scientist (Agricultural Genomics Project Scientist (Pigeonpea Breeding) Pawan Khera, Special Project Scientist Network), India (Durgapura, Rajasthan), India (Molecular Breeding), India VS Arun Kumar Sama, Special Project Research Program - Dryland Dong Hyun Kim, Post-Doctoral Scientist Scientist (Molecular Breeding), India Cereals (Genomics), Korea DVSSR Sastry, Manager, Genebank Vincent Vadez, Assistant Research CV Sameer Kumar, Senior Scientist, Seed Laboratory, India Program Director - Dryland Cereals & (Pigeonpea Breeding), India KB Saxena, Principal Scientist Principal Scientist (Plant Physiology), R Vijaya Kumar, Manager, Field (Pigeonpea Breeding), India France Research Operations (Pigeonpea Rachit Kumar Saxena, Scientist (Applied Santosh P Deshpande, Scientist (Molecular Breeding), India Genomics), India Breeding), Dryland Cereals, India Vinay Kumar, Special Project Scientist HC Sharma, Principal Scientist SK Gupta, Senior Scientist (Pearl Millet (Applied Genomics), India (Entomology), India Breeding), India ICRISAT 20ICRAInSnAuTa lM Reapnoartg 2e0m12ent and senior staff members from headquarters, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West and Central Africa. Jana Kholova, Associate Scientist, Saikat Datta Mazumdar, Chief Pradyut J Modi, Senior Manager- Cereals Physiology, Czechoslovakia Operating Officer, NutriPlus Information Systems Unit, India A Ashok Kumar, Senior Scientist- Knowledge Program, India Chukka Srinivasa Rao, Senior Manger - Sorghum Breeding, India Jonathan Philroy, Assistant Manager, Agri Data Management, Knowledge Sharing Punna Ramu, Special Project Scientist, Business Incubator Program, India and Innovation, India India Farm, Engineering and Transport NT Yaduraju, Principal Scientist - ICT4D, P Srinivasa Rao, Scientist (Sorghum Services (FETS) India Breeding), India M Prabhakar Reddy, Program Leader Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Ch Ravinder Reddy, Senior Scientist, - Farm, Engineering and Transport Technology Exchange, India Services, India Nairobi, Kenya P Sudhakar Reddy, Scientist (DST- Suresh C Pillay, Assistant Program Said N Silim, Director, ESA, Uganda INSPIRE), India Leader - Farm, Engineering and Alastair William Orr, Assistant Director Trushar Shah, Scientist - Bioinformatics, Transport Services and Senior for ESA and Principal Scientist - Kenya Manager (Engineering Services), India Economics, Dryland Cereals, UK Rajan Sharma, Senior Scientist-Cereals C Buchappa, Senior Manager, Susanna de Villiers, Senior Scientist, Pathology & Head, Plant Quarantine Engineering Services, India Grain Legumes, South Africa (until 15 Oct 2012) Lab, India Bijoo Davis, Manager, Electrical and Rakesh K Srivastava, Senior Scientist Airconditioning, India Lieven Claessens, Principal Scientist - Natural Resources (Water and Soils), (Molecular Breeding), India K Hanmanth Rao, Senior Manager, Resilient Dryland Systems, Belgium KN Rai, Consultant, Pearl Millet Farm Services, India David Harris, Principal Scientist Breeding, India Mohd Aslam Shariff, Manager, (Agroecosystems/Climate Change), BVS Reddy, Consultant, Sorghum Transport Services, India Resilient Dryland Systems, UK Breeding, India Knowledge Management and Kai Mausch, Scientist, Economics (ESA), Sharing (KMS) Markets, Institutions and Policies, Agribusiness and Innovation Dileepkumar Guntuku, Principal Germany Platform (AIP) Scientist/Global Leader (Knowledge Mary A Mgonja, Principal Scientist S Aravazhi, Manager - Agri Business Sharing and Innovation & Coordinator (Breeding), Dryland Cereals, Tanzania Incubator Program & COO-IPP, India for South-South Exchange), ES Monyo, Principal Scientist (Breeding) SM Karuppan Chetty, Chief Operating Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, and Project Coordinator, TL-II, Grain Officer, Agri Business Incubator India Legumes, Tanzania Program, India Rosana P Mula, Coordinator, Learning Henry Fred Ojulong, Scientist (Breeding), R Bhubesh Kumar, Assistant Manager, Systems Unit, Philippines Dryland Cereals, Uganda Agri Business Incubator Program, M Madhan, Manager, Library and KPC Rao, Principal Scientist, Resilient India Information Services, India Dryland Systems, India ICRISAT ICRISAT Management and senior staff members from headquarters, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West and Central Africa. Annual Report 2012 21 Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT NVPR Ganga Rao, Scientist (Breeding), Maputo, Mozambique Mariam Toure, Manager, Finance and Grain Legumes, India Tilahun Amede Wondifraw, Principal Administration, WASA, Mali Christin Schipmann, Agricultural Scientist (Natural Resources / PCS Traore, Manager, GIS, Resilient Marketing Economist, Markets, Systems Agronomy), Resilient Dryland Dryland Systems, France Institutions and Policies, Germany Systems, Ethiopia Samba Traore, Project Manager, EU - Franklin Peter Simtowe, Scientist IFAD Food Facility Project, Dryland (Agricultural Economics), Markets, West and Central Africa (WCA) Cereals, Mali Institutions and Policies, Malawi Bamako, Mali Robert B Zougmore, Regional Program Simone Verkaart, Junior Professional Leader, CCAFS, Resilient Dryland Farid Waliyar, Director, WCA, France Officer (Technology Transfer), Systems, Burkina Faso BR Ntare, Assistant Director, WCA, and Resilient Dryland Systems, Holland Principal Scientist (Breeding), Grain Niamey, Niger Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Legumes, Uganda Mahamadou Gandah, Project Andre F van Rooyen, Senior Scientist Amadou Bila Belemgoabga, Manager, Coordinator, AGRA Microdose Project (Crop Livestock) and Country Administration, WCA, Burkina Faso and Country Representative, Resilient Representative, Resilient Dryland Agathe Diama, Regional Information Dryland Systems, Niger Systems, South Africa Officer, WCA, Mali Fatondji Dougbedji, Scientist (Agronomy), Sabine Homann - Kee Tui, Scientist, Gatien Falconnier, Associate Resilient Dryland Systems, Niger Markets, Institutions and Policies, Professional Officer (Crop Livestock Falalou Hamidou, Regional Scientist Germany Systems/Modeling), Resilient Dryland (Physiology), Grain Legumes, Niger Justice Nyamangara, Scientist, Systems, France CT Hash, Principal Scientist (Breeding), Agronomy, Resilient Dryland Systems, Kodjo Kondo, Monitoring and Dryland Cereals, USA Zimbabwe Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, Markets, Amadou Hassane, Manager, Finance, Masikati Patricia, Post Doctoral Fellow, Institutions and Policies (WASA WCA, Niger Project), Togo Resilient Dryland Systems, Zimbabwe Rodolfo Martinez Morales, Senior Vera Lugutuah, Associate Professional Swathi Sridharan, Editor - ESA, Strategic Scientist (Crop Diversification / Officer (Human Nutrition), Dryland Marketing & Communication Office, Agronomy), Resilient Dryland Systems, Cereals, Ghana India Mexico Tom van Mourik, Special Project Jupiter Ndjeunga, Principal Scientist, Lilongwe, Malawi Scientist, HOPE Project, Resilient Markets, Institutions and Policies, Moses Siambi, Principal Scientist Dryland Systems, Holland Cameroon (Agronomy) and Country Abdoulaye Saley Moussa, Senior Mensah Edouard Romeo, Associate Representative, Grain Legumes, Scientist (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Professional Officer (Economics), Kenya Program, Resilient Dryland Systems, Markets, Institutions and Policies, Benin S Anitha, Post Doctoral Fellow, Grain Niger Gaston Sangare, Regional Farm Manager, Legumes, India George E Okwach, Project Manager, WCA, Mali Kai Mausch, Associate Professional HOPE Project for Sorghum and Officer (Economics), Markets, Millets, Dryland Cereals, Kenya Kano, Nigeria Institutions and Policies, Germany HFW Rattunde, Principal Scientist Hakeem Ayinde Ajeigbe, Principal Scientist, (Sorghum Breeding & Genetic Agronomy and Country Representative, Emmanuel S Monyo, Principal Scientist Resources), Dryland Cereals, USA Resilient Dryland Systems, Nigeria (Breeding), Grain Legumes, Tanzania Eva W Rattunde, Principal Scientist Samuel MC Njoroge, Associate (Sorghum Breeding & Genetic Collaborative Staff Professional Officer (Groundnut Resources), Dryland Cereals, Pathology), Grain Legumes, Kenya CIRAD Germany Christopher Ochieng Ojiewo, Regional Kirsten Vom Brocke, Principal Scientist SVR Shetty, Chief of Party, WASA, Scientist (Plant Breeding and Seed (Bamako, Mali), Germany Markets, Institutions and Policies Production), Grain Legumes, Kenya (WASA Project), India International School of Hyderabad Patrick Okori, Principal Scientist Arame Tall, Scientist (Climate Helge Gallinger, Principal - International (Groundnut Breeding), Grain Information Services), CCAFS, School of Hyderabad (Patancheru, Legumes, Uganda Resilient Dryland Systems, Senegal India), Germany ICRISAT 22 Annual Report 2012 New bilateral projects funded in 2012 Technical support for promotion of conservation agriculture Programme (BIPP), Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, in Insiza and Mberengwa Districts, Zimbabwe [as part of India Protracted Relief Programme (PRP) Phase II activities] Partners: Krishidhan Seeds Pvt. Ltd., India Donor Agency: Action Contre la Faim (ACF), Zimbabwe Development of the GCP crop ontology and trait dictionaries Capacity building for soil and plant analysis laboratories for for chickpea, sorghum, groundnut and pigeonpea the improvement of soil health in West Africa Donor Agency: Bioversity International, a member of the Donor Agency: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa CGIAR Consortium (AGRA), Kenya The role of information networks for the adoption of Improving soil fertility, productivity and livelihoods of agricultural innovations – the case of sorghum and finger smallholder farmers in northern Uganda by intensifying and millet in Tanzania diversification of Pigeonpea cropping systems Donor Agency: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Donor Agency: AGRA through National Agricultural Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) / Deutsche Research Organization (NARO), Uganda Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Enhancing the adaptive capacity of smallholders to climate Partners: University of Göttingen, Germany variability through response farming innovations Donor Agency: Association for Strengthening of Agricultural Field testing of ICRISAT legume varieties and technologies in Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (ASARECA), Uganda selected regions of the Philippines (Phase 3) Donor Agency: Bureau of Agricultural Research, Dept. of Pearl millet innovations for improved livelihoods in drought- Agriculture, Philippines prone areas of Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) Partners: Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit I Donor Agency: Association for Strengthening of Agricultural (DA RFU I); Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit III Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (ASARECA), Uganda (DA RFU III) – CLIARC; Department of Agriculture Regional Genomic approaches for stress tolerant chickpea Field Unit IV A (DA RFU IV A) - STIARC; Department of Donor Agency: Australia-India Strategic Research Fund Agriculture Regional Field Unit V (DA-RFU V); Department of (AISRF), Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Agriculture Regional Field Unit VI (DA RFU VI)- WESVIARC; India Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit VII (DA-RFU Partners: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics VII) – CENVIARC; Department of Agriculture Regional Field (ACPFG), University of Adelaide, Australia; Indian Unit VIII (DA-RFU VIII) – EVIARC; Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India; Regional Field Unit IX (DA-RFU IX) – ZAMPIARC; Department National Institute for Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), of Agriculture Regional Field Unit X (DA-RFU X) – NOMIARC; India. Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit XII (DA-RFU XII) – CEMIARC; Philippines. Increasing productivity of legume-based farming systems in the central dry zone of Myanmar Conservation agriculture, forage fodder demonstration plots Donor Agency: Australian Center for International design and monitoring in Chivi, Mangwe, Bulilima and Binga Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Australia districts of Zimbabwe Partners: University of New England, Australia; University Donor Agency: CAFOD, Zimbabwe of Adelaide, Australia; Department of Agricultural Research, Provide technical support to Enhancing Community Resilience Myanmar; Department of Agriculture, Myanmar; Yezin Programme (ECRP)-Malawi consortium Implementing University, Myanmar Partners in seed systems development, pre- and post- harvest Developing resilient and profitable rural livelihood systems in handling and storage of crops semi-arid Mozambique: A conceptual approach Donor Agency: Care International, Malawi Donor Agency: Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Pathways to agricultural and economic development in rural Austria Malawi project Partners: Mozambiquan Agricultural Research Institute Donor Agency: Care International, Malawi (IIAM), Maputo, Mozambique; University of Natural Implementation of the AgMIP program for South Asia and Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria. Sub-Saharan Africa Genomics assisted accelerated product development of high Donor Agency: Columbia University, USA yielding pigeonpea hybrids Partners: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan; Donor Agency: Biotechnology Industry Partnership Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Pakistan; COMSATS ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 23 Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Pakistan; Washington State University (WSU), USA; CIAT; Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa; National University of Lesotho (NUL), Lesotho; Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia; Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa; University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of the Free State, South Africa; Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA), South Africa; Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Grain Crops Institute (GCI), South Africa; Project Directorate for Farming Systems Research (PDFSR), India; ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, India; Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Nepal; CIMMYT; Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Bangladesh; Oregon State University, USA; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore; Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU); Foundation for Environment, Climate and Technology (FECT), Sri Lanka; University of Peradeniya (UoP), Sri Lanka; University of Ruhuna (UoR), Sri Lanka. Enhancing capacities of the AgMIP South Asia Regional Teams through Capacity-Building Workshops and Knowledge-Sharing Platforms Donor Agency: Columbia University, USA Assessing the impacts of climate variability and change on agricultural systems in eastern Africa while enhancing the region’s capacity to undertake integrated assessment of vulnerabilities to future changes in climate Donor Agency: Columbia University, USA Partners: Makerere University, Uganda; Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Kenya; Mekelle University, Ethiopia; Bureau of Agricultural Consultancy and Advisory Services (BACAS), Tanzania. Crop-livestock intensification in the face of climate change: Exploring opportunities to reduce risk and increase resilience in Southern Africa using an integrated multi-modeling approach Donor Agency: Columbia University, USA Partners: Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal to Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; University of the Free State, South Africa; University of the Cape Town, South Africa. Climate change Impacts on West African Agriculture: a Regional Assessment (CIWARA1) Donor Agency: Columbia University, USA Partners: University of Ghana; Agrhymet Regional Centre, Niger; Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR), Senegal; University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana; Agence Nationale de la Meteorologie (Mali Meteo), Mali; Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Ghana; Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Meteorologie (ANACIM), Senegal; Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso. Conversion of Commonwealth of Learning – Commonwealth Computer Navigator Certificate (CCNC) modules to flash format Donor Agency: Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada Integrating bio-treated wastewater with enhanced water use efficiency to support the Green economy in EU and India (Water4Crops) Donor Agency: Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under Indo-EU collaboration on Biotechnology, India Partners: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI); India; University of Agricultural Sciences-Dharwad (UASD), India; MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), India; National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India; Jain Irrigation Systems Limited (JISL), India; Euro India Research Centre (EIRC), India; SAB Miller India (SABM), India; University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (UASB), India. Biofortifying sorghum with high grain iron and zinc content for combating micronutrient malnutrition Donor Agency: Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, India Partners: Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, India; Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad, India. Development of low-lignin high-biomass sorghums suitable for biofuel production Donor Agency: Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, India Partners: Directorate of Sorghum Research, ICAR, India. Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award and Research Grant for Dr Hima Bindu Kudapa Donor Agency: Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, India Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award and Research Grant for Dr Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy Donor Agency: Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, India Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award and Research Grant for Dr Santisree Parankusam Donor Agency: Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, India Enhancing productivity of groundnut and pigeonpea cropping systems in Tanzania and Uganda ICRISAT 24 Annual Report 2012 Donor Agency: European Commission through International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy Partners: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Govt of Tanzania; Ngetta Zonal Agricultural Research Development Institute (Ngetta ZARDI), Uganda; National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) of NARO, Uganda. AHBFI/ICRISAT Proposal – Development of a robust commercially sustainable Multiple Uses Sorghum (MUS) value chain in Kenya and Tanzania Donor Agency: European Commission through International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy Partners: Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI), Kenya; Dunia Trust Limited, Tanzania; Sokoine University of Agriculture; Selian Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Tanzania; Iramba District Council, Tanzania; Kondoa District Council, Tanzania; Kongwa District Council, Tanzania; Moshi Rural District Council, Tanzania; Mwanga District Council, Tanzania; Same District Council, Tanzania; Serengeti District Council, Tanzania; Singida Rural District Council, Tanzania; Tanzania Chamber of Commerce in Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA), Tanzania; World Vision International, Zimbabwe. Pre-Implementation phase activities for UniBRAIN agribusiness incubators (AIICs) and partners Donor Agency: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Ghana Implementation phase of the Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN) project Donor Agency: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Ghana CV Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers’ under the Visiting Fellowship – Ms Mareme Niang, Agronomist, Senegal Donor Agency: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India CV Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers’ under the Visiting Fellowship – Mr Nouhan Belko, PhD Student, Senegal Donor Agency: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India CV Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers’ under the Visiting Fellowship – Dr Walid El-Rodeny, Egypt Donor Agency: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India Comprehensive adoption and impact study of improved chickpea cultivars in Andhra Pradesh, India Donor Agency: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy Training to strengthen the capacity of agribusiness incubators and partners Donor Agency: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Ghana Expanding the GCP crop ontology within the community of practice and partners to integrate data sets for the GCP priority crops through the Integrated Breeding Platform (Crop Ontology-Community of Practice) Donor Agency: Generation Challenge Program (GCP)/ CIMMYT through Bioversity, a member of the CGIAR Consortium* Establishing a climate change knowledge network in Indian agriculture Donor Agency: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Improving rural livelihoods through innovative scaling-up of science-led participatory research for development in Karnataka Donor Agency: Govt. of Karnataka, India Partners: IRRI, CIMMYT, ILRI, IFPRI, IWMI, ICARDA Extension of Bhoochetana in paddy and sugarcane for 2012-13 Donor Agency: Govt. of Karnataka, India Farmers participatory trial and popularisation of improved cultivars of sweet potato in three districts of Odisha Donor Agency: Govt. of Odisha, India Partners: CIP Enhancing livelihoods of resource-poor farmers of Rajasthan through introduction of eco-friendly pigeonpea varieties Donor Agency: Govt. of Rajasthan through Swami Keshawanand Rajasthan Agricultural University (SKRAU), India * All CGIAR donors are recognized and listed in http://www.cgiarfund.org/FundDonors ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 25 Development of hybrid pigeonpea technology suitable for Rajasthan Donor Agency: Govt. of Rajasthan through Swami Keshawanand Rajasthan Agricultural University (SKRAU), India Evaluation of high yielding Pigeonpea varieties and hybrids in Tamilnadu Donor Agency: Govt. of Tamil Nadu, India To serve as a Member in the Management Committee of CGIAR Program: Policies, Institutions and Markets Donor Agency: IFPRI, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Partners: Foretell Business Solutions Pvt Ltd Testing the design and communication of downscaled, probabilistic seasonal forecasts; and evaluating their impact on farmers’ management and livelihood outcomes at Wote, eastern Kenya under the Research Theme # 2 of CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Donor Agency: ILRI, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Calibration and intercomparison of climate, crop and economic models and assess their strengths and weaknesses in simulating impacts of climate change on agriculture in Eastern Africa under the Research Theme # 2 of CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Donor Agency: ILRI, a member of the CGIAR Consortium US-India Consortium for Development of Sustainable Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuel Systems (SALBS) Donor Agency: Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC), Indo-US S&T Forum (IUSSTF), India Partners: Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad; Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad; Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore; Rajamatha Vijayaraje Sindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalay, Gwalior; Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad; Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai; Abellon Clean Energy, Ahmedabad; Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Bangalore, India; University of Missouri, Virginia Tech, Montclair State University, Texas A&M University, Show Me Energy, Green Technologies, USA. Sustainable management of crop-based production systems for raising agricultural productivity in rainfed Asia Donor Agency: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy Partners: Rajmata Vijayeraje Scindhia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya (RVSKVV), India; Jharkhand Tribal Development Society (JTDS), India; Mitigating Poverty in Western Rajasthan (MPOWER), India; Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Laos; Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Nepal; Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), Vietnam. Development of genetic markers for sorgoleone (a BNI component) release capacity in sorghum (Seed multiplication of a sorghum GCP-reference germplasm set collection) Donor Agency: Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Japan Innovating communication media and methods for more effective Aflatoxin mitigation, variety uptake, and use of interventions in Groundnut in Malawi and Tanzania Donor Agency: McKnight Foundation, USA Partners: Danish Management, Denmark; Agricultural Research Institute, Tanzania. Implementing agency for setting up five Food Processing Business Incubation Centres (FPBICs) in 5 African countries (Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali and Angola) under India-Africa Forum Summit-II (IAFS-II) Donor Agency: Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India, India Implementing Agency for setting up Food Testing Laboratories (FTLs) in 5 African countries (Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Gambia and Nigeria) under India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-II) Donor Agency: Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India, India Characterization of commercial hybrids to enable model applications for environmental characterization in India Donor Agency: Pioneer Overseas Corporation, USA Tracking Aspergillus flavus toxigenic strain AF 11- 4 in groundnut crop soils using SCAR marker based PCR diagnostic assay Donor Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board, Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, India Pre-breeding for chickpea improvement Donor Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board, Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, India Pathological, cultural variability and sequence diversity in Rhizoctonia bataticola causing dry root rot of chickpea Donor Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board, Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, India Integrated water resource development in Kolar district through watershed interventions Donor Agency: The Coca-Cola Foundation, USA ICRISAT 26 Annual Report 2012 Cartes d’adaptation variétale des sorghos et mils d’Afrique de l’Ouest : Validations de terrain au niveau des agro-systèmes villageois au Mali [START Fellowship Award under the African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP) for Ms Aichata F Mohamed Sako] Donor Agency: The Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA), University of Dar es Salaam in partnership with START Secretariat, Tanzania Partners: Institute d’economie rural (IER), Mali; University of Bamako, Mali. Unlocking health benefits of Pearl millet: Identifying factors for starch digestibility, and Slowly Digestible Starch (SDS) using a world inbred germplasm association panel Donor Agency: Unilever Industries Pvt. Ltd., India Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa Donor Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through IITA Partners: Malienne pour la Securite et la Souverainete Alimentaire (AMASSA), Mali; MOBIOM, Mali; L’Association Malienne d’Eveil pour le Developpement Durable (AMEDD), Mali; ILRI Global crop yield gap and water productivity atlas Donor Agency: Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Partners: Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria; Institut de I’Environment et des Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso; Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Institute of Rural Economy (IER), Mali; Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR); Centre Regional AGRHYMET (AGRHYMET), Niger; CIMMYT. EAGER: Development of a geospatial soil-crop inference engine for smallholder farmer Donor Agency: Univ. of Florida, USA Africa RISING: Transforming key production systems: Maize mixed East and Southern Africa (Multiplication of breeder and basic seed for maize and legumes in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia) Donor Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through CIAT, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Strengthening partnerships for innovation in beans, groundnuts and sesame research and technology transfer in Mozambique Donor Agency: USAID through IITA, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Africa RISING: Transforming key production systems: Maize mixed East and Southern Africa (Multiplication of breeder and basic seed for maize and legumes in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia) Donor Agency: USAID through IITA, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Partners: CIAT; CIMMYT; Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute (ARI Naliendele), Tanzania. Value chain analysis of grain legumes in eastern and southern Africa: Building partnerships for impact through research on sustainable intensification of farming systems Donor Agency: USAID through IITA, a member of the CGIAR Consortium Pigeonpea improvement using molecular breeding (Pigeonpea Activity – India) Donor Agency: USAID, USA Partners: National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), India; Agricultural Research Station-Tandur, India; Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), India; Agricultural Research Station-Gulbarga, India; University of Agricultural Sciences-Raichur, India. US-CGIAR Linkage Program linked to CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes Donor Agency: USAID, USA US-CGIAR Linkage Program linked to CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals Donor Agency: USAID, USA Water Resources Group: Expert input on preparing detailed project report for water-enabled growth in Karnataka Donor Agency: World Bank, USA Partners: Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Karnataka, India; IWMI. To conduct CCAFS workshop on “Scaling up good practice in climate services for farmers in Africa and South Asia” to be held in Dakar, Senegal from 10-12 December 2012 Donor Agency: World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland Conservation agriculture, forage fodder demonstration plots design and monitoring in Matobo and Insiza districts, Zimbabwe Donor Agency: World Vision International, Zimbabwe Conservation agriculture, forage fodder demonstration plots design and monitoring in Matobo and Insiza districts (under the GRM Internatiional funded Protracted Relief Programme (PRP) Phase II, Year 4 Donor Agency: World Vision International, Zimbabwe ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 27 Financial Summary Balance Sheet US$ thousands 2012 2011 Assets Cash and Cash equivalents 10,393 9,711 Investments 56,916 55,170 Accounts receivable 24,234 11,261 Inventories 821 1,002 Prepaid Expenses 436 496 Property and Equipment - net 6,349 6,040 Other assets 4,753 3,257 Total Assets 103,902 86,937 Liabilities Accounts payable 22,937 19,299 Accruals and provisions 3,781 2,401 Payments in advance from donors 30,793 23,027 Long-term liabilities 13,023 11,621 Total Liabilities 70,534 56,348 Net Assets Unrestricted Unappropriated 19,064 17,345 Appropriated 10,113 9,113 Permanently Restricted 4,191 4,131 Total Net Assets 33,368 30,589 Total Liabilities & Net Assets 103,902 86,937 Operating results and movements in Net Assets US$ thousands 2012 2011 Operating results  Revenue 69,128 67,014  Expenditure 65,373 65,316  Change in net assets, operational 3,755 1,698 Net Assets - Unrestricted  Unappropriated   Balance, beginning of the year 17,345 18,647   Operating surplus for the year 3,755 1,698   Gratuity/Pension Charge (1,036) -   Transfer to Appropriated (1,000) (3,000)   Balance, end of the year 19,064 17,345  Appropriated   Balance, beginning of the year 9,113 6,113   Transfer from unappropriated 1,000 3,000 Total Net Assets - Unrestricted 10,113 9,113 Net Assets - Permanently restricted 4,191 4,131 Total Net Assets 33,368 30,589 ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 28 Grant income from donors for 2012 Donor US$ ' 000 Donor US$ ' 000 CGIAR Consortium 25,166 IFAD 250 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 12,002 UK 219 Sir Ratan Tata Trust 205 USA 6,186 Other Donors 204 28,000 India 5,677 Sir Dorab ji Tata Trust 189 CGIAR Challenge Programme 3,35 9 Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust 178 26,000 European Commission 1,848 FAO 175 Germany 1,588 Canada 132 24,000 Ireland 1,303 CFC 121 CGIAR Consortium Research Centers 726 Coca Cola India Foundation 76 22,000 Netherlands 518 World Vision 72 20,000 McKnight Foundation 450 China 40 Australia 435 Thailand 39 18,000 AGRA 407 World Bank 39 Global Crop Diversity Trust 402 Action Contre la Faim 24 16,000 FARA 377 France 21 Seed Companies 367 Denmark 10 14,000 Japan 332 Switzerland 8 Philippines 323 Care Inc., 7 12,000 ASARECA 286 IER 7 Asian Development Bank 278 Aga Khan Foundation 7 10,000 Austria 256 Grand Total 64,309 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 CGIAR Conso rti um Bill & M elin da G ate s F oundati on USA India CGIAR Chall enge Progra mme CGIAR Conso rti um Researc h Centers European Commiss ion Germ any Ire lan d Netherla nds McK nigh t F oundati on Austr ali a AGRA Global Crop Dive rsi ty Tru st FA RA Se ed Compan ies Jap an Philip pines ASA REC A Asia n Deve lopment B an k Austr ia IFA D UK Sir Rata n Ta ta Tru st Other D onors Sir Dorab ji T ata Tr ust Nav ajb ai Rata nTat a T rust FA O Can ad a CFC Coca Cola India Fo undati on World Visio n China Thail an d World Ban k Acti on Contre la Fa im Fra nce Denmark Sw itz erla nd Care In c. IER Aga Khan Fo undati on ICRISAT 29 Annual Report 2012 US$ Thousands Capacity Strengthening a. Number and diversity of degree students trained/being trained at ICRISAT Scholars Master’s Interns Program PhD Fellows ICRISAT Location M F M F M F M F Countries South Asia 24 35 4 1 16 16 7 14 South Asia (India, Bangladesh) - - - - - - 5 4 South East Asia (Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar) - 1 - - - - - - East Asia (Taiwan) 1 4 - 1 - - - 1 North America (United States) - 1 - - - - - - West Asia (Syrian Arab Republic) 1 - 1 1 1 - 5 1 East Africa (Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda) - - - - - - 1 - North Africa (Egypt) - - - - - - 3 2 West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal) 2 2 - - - - - 1 Europe (Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland) - - - - - - - - Oceania (Australia) Totals 28 43 5 3 17 16 21 23 156 71 41 44 (Joined and completed in 2012) 52 2 44 (Joined before 2012 and completed in 2012) 8 7 4 (Joined in 2012 and continuing onwards) 11 14 13 (Continuing from previous year) 0 18 1 Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) 3 0 9 3 0 1 0 0 East Africa (Kenya) Totals 3 13 0 16 West and Central Africa (WCA) 15 6 16 4 5 1 1 0 West Africa (Niger, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria) 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 Europe (Italy, Belgium, Germany) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 East Africa (Kenya) Totals 16 6 16 4 6 4 1 0 53 22 30 1 (Joined and completed in 2012) 12 5 1 (Joined before 2012 and completed in 2012) 2 1 0 (Joined in 2012 and continuing onwards) 7 18 0 (Continuing from previous year) 1 6 0 Grand Total 96 84 45 225 ICRISAT 30 Annual Report 2012 b. Number of formal courses offered with number and diversity of participants No. of Students ICRISAT Location Name of the Course/Scientific Visit M F Total Countries Patancheru, India National Training on Carbon Sequestration and Carbon 15 1 16 India Trading, 06-17 February 2012 Capacity Building Training Cum Exposure Visit of Seed 16 - 16 India Certification Personnel and Seed Entrepreneurs of Orissa, 13-16 February 2012 Training Program for IAARD Scientists from Indonesia, 3 2 5 Indonesia 19-23 March 2012 Scientific Visit of Philippine Academic and Agricultural 7 3 10 Philippines Administrators/ Leaders, 12-17 March 2012 Philippine agriculture scientists/administrators visit 5 3 8 Philippines ICRISAT-Patancheru, 22-27 July 2012 Scientific Visit of SUC Presidents of the Philippines, 3 4 7 Philippines 03-07 September 2012 Scientific visit of two Filipino research managers, 1 1 2 Philippines 13 September 2012 Scientific visit of a research leader, 26-28 September 1 0 1 Philippines 2012 Scientific visit (Interactive session on fundamental of 0 2 2 Philippines scientific writing), 06-11 October 2012 Scientific visit of Philippine agricultural scientists, 1 2 3 Philippines 21-27 October 2012 Training-cum Field Exposure on Pigeonpea Seed 19 1 20 India Production, 30-31 October 2012 Scientific visit of Philippines agricultural scientists, 0 2 2 Philippines 26-27 November 2012 ICRISAT-ICAR International training course on high 0 2 2 Philippines throughput phenotyping for chickpea and pigeonpea diseases, 3-9 December 2012 Sub-total (Patancheru) 71 23 94 ICRISAT-Niamey, Training Workshop on Data Analysis, Niamey, Niger, 17 2 19 Niger, Burkina Faso, Niger 23-27 January 2012 Benin, Senegal BMZ Abiotic Stress Project Planning Meeting, Niamey, 15 3 18 Niger, Mali, Burkina Niger, 12-15 March 2012 Faso, Senegal, Germany GCP Training Workshop at the Grand Hotel, Niamey, 20 3 23 Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, 15-16 March 2012 Mexico, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal Capacity Building Training-cum-Exposure Visit of Seed Certification personnel and Seed Enterpreneurs of Odisha, 13-16 Feb 2012. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 31 Photos: ICRISAT No. of Students ICRISAT Location Name of the Course/Scientific Visit M F Total Countries Atelier Sur Le Contrôle De Qualité Et La Certification 14 5 19 Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Des Semences, Niamey, Niger, 26-28 March 2012 Burkina Faso Atelier De Formation Sur Les Techniques De 5 5 Niger Maraichage, Sadoré, 02-06 April 2012 Atelier De Formation Sur Les Techniques De 5 5 Niger Production De Plants Et Gestion Des Pépinières, ICRISAT- Niamey, Niger, 16-20 April 2012 Atelier D’analyse Des Données Socio-Économiques En 2 3 5 Niger, Burkina Faso Utilisant Le Logiciel STATA, Niamey, Niger, 23 May-01 June 2012 Gestion des Pépinières et Techniques de propagation 18 11 29 Niger des Arbres, à Sadoré, 16-20 July 2012 Pearl Millet Downy Mildew Greenhouse Screening, 19 5 24 Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Sadoré, Niger, 01-02 August 2012 Senegal, Burkina Faso Atelier de formation sur l’utilisation du logiciel cahier 19 5 24 Senegal, Niger, Mali, électronique du GCP, TVC, Niamey, Niger, 04 August Burkina Faso 2012 Atelier de formation sur l’opinion des experts sur 19 2 21 Senegal, Burkina Faso, l’adoption des variétés d’arachide, de mil et de sorgho Mali, Nigeria, Niger en Afrique de l’ouest, Hôtel Sahel, Niamey, Niger, 06-07 August 2012 Photo: ICRISAT Groundnut harvest time. ICRISAT 32 Annual Report 2012 No. of Students ICRISAT Location Name of the Course/Scientific Visit M F Total Countries Atelier de formation sur les méthodes d’évaluation 11 1 12 Niger, Nigeria, Burkina d’impact des technologies et innovations et d’analyses Faso, Mali, Ghana, Benin des chaines de valeurs, Hôtel Sahel, Niamey, Niger, August 2012 GIS and Remote Sensing Course for Agriculture and 27 3 30 Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Natural Resources Management at ICRISAT- Niamey, Burkina Faso, Ghana, 6-17 August 2012 Benin, Germany Atelier régional de formation sur l’analyse des sols et 17 9 26 Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso des plantes, Hôtel Sahel, Niamey, Niger, 10-21 September 2012 Atelier régional de formation sur les GLP/ 11 4 15 Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Recommandation de fertilisation, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso, 07-16 November 2012 Formation in situ sur les techniques améliorées de 40 40 Benin maraichage, Birni NGaouré Niger, 12-16 November 2012 Formation in situ sur les techniques améliorées de 40 40 Benin maraichage, Kalale Benin, 19 November-01 December 2012 English Training Course, 29 November 2012-29 20 8 28 Niger January 2013 Atelier de formation sur la gestion des risques 28 28 Niger, Mali, Senegal, climatiques, Niamey-Niger, 10-15 December 2012 Burkina Faso, UK, Germany Formation des Formateurs sur la Bio-récupération des 64 8 72 Niger terres dégradées (BDL), Sadoré, Niger, 10-15 December 2012 Formation in situ sur les techniques améliorées de 40 40 Niger maraichage, Banizoumbou Niger, 26-28 December 2012 Sub-total (Niger) 331 192 523 ICRISAT-Bamako, Formation sur l’installation des tests participatifs, 15 5 20 Mali Mali Koutiala, 09 May 2012 Formation sur les techniques culturales, de récolte et 702 702 Mali de conservation de l’arachide, Mountougoula, Tièlè, Sanankoroba 10-11 May, 12-13 May, 14-15 May et 16-17 May 2012 Atelier de formation sur « Approche champ paysan 29 1 30 Mali par grappe, la gestion du striga et la fertilité du sol et outils pour la dissémination des technologies à grande échelle », Koutiala, Mali, 15-18 May 2012 Formation sur l’installation des tests participatifs, Kita, 24 3 27 Mali 28 May 2012 Formation sur la Production et la conservation de 21 3 24 Mali semences certifiées de sorgho, Kita, 29 May 2012 Formation sur les techniques culturales, de récolte 147 147 Mali et de conservation de l’arachide, Koutiala, 30 May-02 June 2012 Atelier de formation sur le Compostage en fosse et 28 7 35 Mali en tas pendant la saison de pluie, distribution et utilisation des vidéos d’instruction paysan-au-paysan et production de semences de sorgho, niébé, mil et oseille, Koutiala, 02-06 June 2012 Formation sur la Production de semences d’hybride de 50 5 55 Mali sorgho, Dioïla, 04 June 2012 ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 33 No. of Students ICRISAT Location Name of the Course/Scientific Visit M F Total Countries Formation sur la Production de semences d’hybride de 26 0 26 Mali sorgho, Koutiala, 06 June 2012 Formation sur l’installation des tests participatifs, 33 5 38 Mali Yorobougoula (Yanfolila), 07 June 2012 Formation sur la Collecte des données des tests 24 1 25 Burkina Faso participatifs, Dédougou, 07-08 June 2012 Formation sur la Production et la conservation de 38 4 42 Mali semences certifiées de mil et de sorgho, Koutiala, 07-08 June 2012 Formation sur la Production et la conservation 15 3 18 Mali de semences certifiées de sorgho, Yorobougoula, (Yanfolila), 08 June 2012 Atelier de formation sur le compostage en fosse et 20 10 30 Mali en tas pendant la saison de pluie, distribution et utilisation des vidéos d’instruction paysan-au-paysan, Yorobougoula, Mali, 12-13 June 2012 Formation sur l’Evaluation participative des nouvelles 26 3 29 Mali variétés de sorgho et mil, Ségou, 13-14 June 2012 Formation sur les techniques culturales de récolte et 133 133 Mali de conservation de l’arachide, Bougoula, Dialakoroba, Garalo, 21-22 June 2012 Formation sur l’Evaluation participative des nouvelles 19 5 24 Mali variétés de sorgho et mil, Kati, 12 July 2012 Formation sur les techniques culturales, de récolte et 27 30 57 Mali de conservation de l’arachide, Didiéni, 13-14 July 2012 Formation sur l’Evaluation participative des nouvelles 22 2 24 Mali variétés de sorgho et mil, Kati, 20 July 2012 Formation sur la Production de semences hybrides de 40 0 40 Mali sorgho, Samanko, Siby, Sotuba, 06-08 October 2012 Formation sur la gestion intégrée de l’aflatoxine, Tiélé 317 317 Mali (Ouéléssébougou), 16 October 2012 Formation sur la gestion intégrée de l’Aflatoxine, Zone 300 600 900 Mali de Kolokani, 18 October 2012 Formation sur la gestion intégrée de l’Aflatoxine, 317 317 Mali Sanankoroba, Dialakoroba, 23 October 2012 Formation sur la Méthode d’échantillonnage de 1 1 Mali l’arachide, Kolokani, 09 November 2012 Formation sur la transformation de l’arachide dans le 127 127 Mali cadre de la gestion intégrée de l’Aflatoxine, Mopti, 14 November 2012 Formation sur la gestion intégrée de l’Aflatoxine, 30 10 40 Mali Koutiala, 30 November-01 December 2012 Sub-total (Mali) 1232 1996 3228 ICRISAT-Kano, Training Workshop for seed lab technicians, at the 35 20 55 Nigeria Nigeria Central Seed testing laboratory, Abuja, Nigeria, 27-28 February 2012 Training for Seed Certification officers, seed 47 5 52 Nigeria companies, Seed production officers and ADPs, National Agricultural Seed Council, Samaru, Zaria, 26-27 March 2012 Business plan development Training at IAR Conference 42 6 48 Nigeria room, Zaria, Nigeria, 24 April 2012 Training on Linkages for Agro dealers and Seed 60 10 70 Nigeria companies, IAR Samaru, Zaria, 25 April 2012 ICRISAT 34 Annual Report 2012 No. of Students ICRISAT Location Name of the Course/Scientific Visit M F Total Countries Actor Identification Training at Kano State Agricultural 39 3 42 Nigeria and Rural Development Authority, Kano, 25 April 2012 Pre-season Training for Extension Agents and Lead 41 4 45 Nigeria Farmers, at Federal Crop Protection School, Hotoro, Kano, 24 May 2012 Training on Data collection and reporting at ICRISAT 14 1 15 Nigeria Station Kano, 5 December 2012 Training on Data collection and reporting, ICRISAT 16 3 19 Nigeria Station Kano, 11 December 2012 Sub total (Nigeria) 294 52 346 ESA, Nairobi Training of farmers in understanding probabilistic 200 259 459 Wote, Kenya climate information, 3-22 September 2012 Workshop on experimental designs and data analysis, 33 3 36 Kenya, Malawi, Nairobi, Kenya, 15-19 October 2012 Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia Pigeonpea production technology with emphasis on 4 1 5 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania hybrid breeding, ICRISAT-Patancheru, 26 October- 7 November 2012 Training in climate, crop and economic models to 30 6 36 Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda assess impacts of climate change, Adama, Ethiopia, and Ethiopia 3-8 December 2012 Sub-total (ESA) 267 269 536 GRAND TOTAL 2195 2532 4727 Photo: J Hansen, CCAFS Farmers’ workshop on climate information, Senegal. ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 35 Publications Full list available at http://www.icrisat.org/icrisat-staff-publications-2012.htm To access digital versions of publications go to http://oar.icrisat.org Workshops, Conferences and Meetings in 2012 Full list available at http://www.icrisat.org/icrisat-workshops.htm Photo: L Vidysagar, ICRISAT Awards 2012 Dr Dar receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology from Dr Rajeev Varshney being honored by GAAS Vice President TCA President Max P Guillermo. Dr Chen Dong. R Varshney receiving the certificate of HC Sharma re-elected president H Upadhyaya elected Honorary Fellow appointment from Professor Huangming of International Congress of of ISPGR. Yang, Chairman, BGI. Entomology. Dr CLL Gowda (left) receiving the (L) Abdul Rashid War and (R) Md Riyazaddin receiving their gold medals International Service in Crop Science Award for Environmental Biology. from CSSA President Dr Jeffrey Volenec. Photos: ICRISAT ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 37 ICRISAT in the NEWS ICRISAT 38 Annual Report 2012 ICRISAT in the NEWS ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 39 ICRISAT locations in the semi-arid tropics Niamey, Niger New Delhi, India Bamako, Mali Patancheru, India Kano, Nigeria Nairobi, Kenya Lilongwe, Malawi Maputo, Mozambique Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Semi-arid tropics of the world ICRISAT Annual Report 2012 40 Citation: ICRISAT Annual Report 2012. 2013. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: 40 pp. ISSN 1017-9933. The Publication Team: Editor-in-Chief and Lydia Flynn Leader of the Publication Team Editorial Assistance Anjana John Chief Graphic and Layout Artist K Chandrasekhara Rao Graphic and Layout Artist SK Meeravali Cover Design L Flynn and Ch Vengala Reddy Production Support VVS Satyanarayana MNR Ramesh Distribution VS Reddy S Ratnam Cover photos: Top to bottom and left to right (L Vidyasagar, Alina Paul-Bossuet, L Vidyasagar, ICRISAT file photo and L Vidyasagar), ICRISAT. ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium Science with a human face The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid ICRISAT-Patancheru ICRISAT-Liaison Office ICRISAT-Nairobi Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political organization (Headquarters) CG Centers Block (Regional hub ESA) that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and Patancheru 502 324 NASC Complex PO Box 39063, sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout Andhra Pradesh, India Dev Prakash Shastri Marg Nairobi, Kenya the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in Tel +91 40 30713071 New Delhi 110 012, India 55 countries, the semi-arid tropics have over 2 billion people, of whom 644 million are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT ICRISAT-Bamako ICRISAT-Kano ICRISAT-Niamey (Regional hub WCA) innovations help the dryland poor move from poverty to PMB 3491, BP 12404 BP 320 prosperity by harnessing markets while managing risks – a Sabo Bakin Zuwo Road Niamey, Bamako, Mali Tarauni, Kano, Nigeria Niger (Via Paris) strategy called Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD). ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru near Hyderabad, ICRISAT-Bulawayo ICRISAT-Lilongwe ICRISAT-Maputo Matopos Research Chitedze Agricultural c/o IIAM, Av. das Andhra Pradesh, India, with two regional hubs and five country Station Research Station FPLM No 2698 offices in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a member of the CGIAR PO Box 776 PO Box 1096 Caixa Postal 1906 Consortium. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Lilongwe, Malawi Maputo, secure future. Mozambique ISSN 1017-9933 Order code: IRE 022 184-2013 About ICRISAT www.icrisat.org