TY - JOUR N2 - The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), established in 1972 with its headquarters at Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, is a non-profit, non-political, international research organization for science-based agricultural development. It belongs to the Alliance of Future Harvest Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops ? sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut ? which support the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor in the Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT). The mission of ICRISAT is to help empower 600 million poor people to overcome hunger, poverty and a degraded environment in the dry tropics through better agriculture. ICRISAT pursues an integrated genetic and natural resource management (IGNRM) strategy to improve the livelihoods of the poor in the semi-arid crop-livestock-tree production systems. The strategic focus in the SAT is to attain impact while maintaining a global level of scientific excellence in agricultural research. AV - public A1 - Reddy, B V S A1 - Ramesh, S A1 - Gowda, C L L TI - Forging research and development partnerships with private sector at ICRISAT-sorghum as a case study UR - http://oar.icrisat.org/1207/ JF - International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter SP - 6 Y1 - 2005/// ID - icrisat1207 EP - 10 VL - 46 ER -