<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Future of agriculture in the semi-arid tropics: proceedings of an International Symposium on Future of Agriculture in Semi-Arid Tropics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India, 14 Nov 2000</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M C S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bantilan</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rao</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Padmaja</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Poverty, food insecurity, rapid population growth, and environmental degradation are problems hounding the semi-arid tropics (SAT) today. A long-term strategy is needed to overcome these intractable problems in the fragile SAT ecosystems. This publication reports on a symposium that was devoted to identifying and prioritizing agricultural R&amp;D strategies relevant to ICRISAT and its stakeholders in the future.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2001</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Monograph</mods:genre></mods:mods>