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Champions of the Poor of the Semi-Arid Tropics
ICRISAT and Partners
William D. DarDirector General, ICRISAT
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This presentation
• The context• Our research heartland• Major outputs and impacts• Moving into the future
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• The semi-arid tropics• Climate change and surging food
and fuel prices• Return of agriculture into center
stage of global economy• Emergence of private sector and
civil society in rural development• CGIAR change management
process
The context
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• 800 million people: the world’s poorest• Unpredictable climate, low/erratic rainfall and poor soils• Inadequate physical and social infrastructure
The semi-arid tropics
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The only global R&D organizationfor semi-arid agriculture
ICRISAT
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Our research heartland
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An integrative strategy of agricultural research that maximizes synergies among biotechnology, plant breeding, agronomy, agro-ecosystems and social sciences with
people empowerment at its core
Research strategy
IGNRM
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Global research themes
• Agro-ecosystems development • Crop improvement, management and utilization
• Harnessing biotechnology for the poor
• Institutions, markets, policy and impact
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Conserving accessions of sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut
and six small millets
Enhancing biodiversity
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ICRISAT’s improved crops are important in ensuring food and nutritional
security of more than 565 million poor people in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Producing more and better food at lesser cost
HHB 67-Improved ICGV91114
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Enhanced legume cultivation in Myanmar
• To enhance food security and farmer livelihoods in Myanmar
• ACIAR-funded project to increase the legume cropped area to at least 4.5 million ha by 2010
• Collaborators include: NSW Department of Primary Industries, University of New England; Department of Agricultural Research, Myanmar and Myanmar Agricultural Services
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Chickpea improvementprogram with Australia
• Chickpea development program to develop lines with excess boron and salinity tolerance with ARC linkage
• 55 salinity-tolerant lines exchanged and being evaluated with WA
• ICRISAT works on this with UWA and the Dept of Agriculture & Food (WA)
• To develop early-maturing, disease-resistant desi chickpea breeding lines
• Over 2,000 breeding lines reviewed and rated by COGGO
• COGGO-sponsored targeted pre-breeding program with ICRISAT, UWA, CLIMA, Dept of Agriculture & Food, and PAU (India)
ARC Linkage grant COGGO grant
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Increasing farming system efficiency through high value crops, new markets
and adding value to farm products
Reducing rural poverty through crop diversification
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Improving pearl millet residues for livestock
• To improve animal productivity in crop-livestock systems in India
• Through marker-assisted and conventional plant breeding to genetically increase the nutritive value of pearl millet
• ICRISAT-implemented project, supported by ACIAR and partnered by ILRI
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Sorghum development
• Need for high quality post-rainy sorghum grain and stover
• Research to increase productivity and fodder quality
• Sponsored by ACIAR, involves University of Queensland, QDPI&F, Indian National Center for Research in Sorghum, and ICRISAT
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Greening landscapes and improving livelihoods of the rural poor
Sustainable natural resource management
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Making agricultural innovations accessible to the rural poor and linking them with
markets for higher income
Improving policies and institutional innovations
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•Climate change and vulnerability
•Drought and land degradation
•Bio-energy•Agricultural diversification
Research on contemporary global issues
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Major outputs and impacts
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610 improved varieties and hybrids developed by ICRISAT and partners released in 77 countries (1976-2007)
Sorghum
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Chickpea
Pearl millet
Global impact of ICRISAT’s crops
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Pushkal is the world’s first pigeonpea hybrid through cytoplasmic male sterility
(CMS) system
World’s first pigeonpea hybrid
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Kabuli chickpea: increased area 5-fold and production 13-fold in 9 years in Andhra
Pradesh, India
Chickpea
Short-duration chickpea
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Mature in 75 days, escape terminal drought and heat stress, with improved resistance to
fusarium wilt and large seeds
New “super early” chickpeas
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Bio-reclamation of degraded lands
Planting basins to harvest rainwater and reduce soil erosion, and leguminous crops and
trees to improve soil fertility and mitigate drought in the Sahel
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Maintains soil nutrients, stops soil erosion and prevents water loss, doubling cereal
yields in Southern Africa
Conservation agriculture
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Community watersheds
• Increases yields fourfold and incomes by 77% (India) and 45% (SE Asia)
• Influenced policies for adoption of model in Asia and Southern Africa
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Linking farmers to markets
The best way to prosperity for African farmers
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Moving into the future
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Vision: Improved well-being of the poor of the semi-arid tropics
Mission: Reduce poverty, increase agricultural productivity, enhance food and nutritional security and protect the environment of the semi-arid tropics
Our roadmap
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Thank you !!!
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17 August 2009 from 5-6pmTattersall Lecture Theatre (G103), UWA (Hackett Drive, Entrance No. 2, Car Park 4, 5 and 6)
Dr Yunbi XuHead of Applied Biotechnology CenterInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico
Enquiries: (08) 6488 4717 Email: [email protected] Website: ioa.uwa.edu.au
“A roadmap from the genomics revolution to a new era in public plant breeding”