"10080","16","archive","1305",,,"disk0/00/01/00/80","2017-07-05 06:19:42","2018-04-26 09:18:00","2017-07-05 06:19:42","article",,,"show",,,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Mausch","K","","","","","","","Mausch","K","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","ICRISAT (Nairobi)","Kenya","Targeting resilience and profitability in African smallholder agriculture: Insights from ICRISAT-led research programs","pub","IM1","CRPS5","crp1.4","public",,,"Smallholder agriculture, dryland farming, resilience, profitability, development, ICRISAT, Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)",,"We thank the ICRISAT scientists at the annual Social Scientists’ meeting who suggested an outline of
contents. Tilahun Amede, Deevi Kumara Charyulu, Sabine Homann Kee-Tui, Uttam Kumar Deb,
Romeo Mensah, Nareppa Nagaraj, Swamikannu Neduraman, Jupiter Ndjeunga, K.P.C. Rao,
P. Parthasarthy Rao, Tom van Mourik, and Andre van Rooyen provided materials. Dave Harris,
Sabine Homann Kee-Tui, and Eva Weltzien gave useful comments on a previous draft. The paper
was edited by Swathi Sridharan. We thank Dave Harris and Anthony Whitbread, who reviewed the
original working paper for ICRISAT. The authors are responsible for remaining errors and omissions,
and for the views expressed in this paper that should not be attributed to the organization with which
they are affiliated.","We reviewed the strategy for Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) adopted by the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). The objective was to
examine ICRISAT’s research strategy related to the twin challenges of resilience and profitability in
developing technologies aimed at improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the drylands
of Africa. To do this, we examined the expected impact on resilience and profitability of its present
program and the realized impact of ICRISAT’s previous research. We argue that the current CGIAR
Research Programs led by ICRISAT envisage separate product lines for resilience and profitability,
targeted at two groups, i.e., subsistence- and market-oriented smallholders. This approach, expected
to make technology more appropriate for farmers’ needs, risks overlooking the interconnectedness
of the two targets if they are too rigorously separated. Although our review of ICRISAT’s previous
research program suggests that success stories have taken numerous forms—some increasing resilience,
others profitability—our review also suggests that it is possible to develop win–win technologies
that improve both targets. Finding ways to replicate win–win technologies will require that ICRISAT
tests the resulting technologies and their implementation in specific contexts to improve and replace
them as the research programs evolve.","2017","published",,"Facets","2","1","NRC Research Press",,"545-558",,,,,,"10.1139/facets-2017-0029",,,,,"TRUE",,"23711671",,,,,,"","http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0029","https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=Targeting+resilience+and+profitability+in+African+smallholder+agriculture%3A+Insights+from+ICRISAT-led+research+programs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en","pub",,"","",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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