ICRISAT, - (2012) ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.
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How can we, our partners and society as a whole spark a transformative dynamic that reaches hundreds of millions of poor? In these times of constant change, how can we change and re-orient ourselves to continue to ask the right questions and fi nd appropriate long-lasting solutions? These are the questions we, as ICRISAT, recently posed when defi ning our strategic plan for 2011–2020. Our process to answer this question resulted in Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD) – a unifying conceptual framework that has at its heart the ability to create opportunities for farmers to reinvest in agriculture by harnessing the power of markets. This year’s Eastern and Southern Africa Annual Report goes beyond accounting for our work at the project level. Instead, we show how various themes and work areas across disciplinary and project boundaries merge into a higher level narrative illustrating the processes that drive the creation of sustainable change. We present three examples that have already been started with markets as their core inspiration. Work done in Ethiopia on chickpea describes highly complex value chains with numerous players and steps between the farmer and the fi nal consumer in countries far from Africa. The core lesson here lies in understanding international market needs, facilitating local markets, and providing farmers with the right germplasm to access these markets. The story on groundnuts in Malawi describes how challenges in market access can be solved through local level collective action and also exemplifi es ICRISAT’s role and responsibility to fi nd solutions to associated problems such as afl atoxin. Finally, the story on the systems approach followed in Zimbabwe illustrates how livestock markets stimulate technology adoption and reinvestment in both crop and livestock production, resulting in more resilient mixed systems. This report illustrates IMOD in action. IMOD helps to create market-based incentives for improving technology adoption and facilitating eff ective value chain development; it also defi nes the role of upstream research and provides a framework that dire cts our research to address the needs of the poor. The systems perspective through the lens of IMOD is ICRISAT’s most promising answer to igniting a spark of transformation that will reach many thousands in the semi-arid tropics.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Monograph) |
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| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Sanat Kumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2012 03:42 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2012 03:42 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6134 |
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