OAR@ICRISATICRISAT Annual Report 2005 'Germinating the seeds of success in the semi-arid tropics'-ICRISATauthorLast year, we sowed the seeds of success. This year, we have reaped a sweet and bountiful harvest. Our collective and untiring efforts to help empower the hundreds of millions of poor and unreached people in the dry tropics are paying off. As we have further strengthened our global research themes, we continue addressing new challenges in the dry tropics. Among these are achieving greater research impact in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), putting transgenic products in the public domain, addressing new horizons in crop improvement and protection, enhancing cross theme collaboration, promoting alternative uses of our mandate crops, developing new science tools and optimizing opportunities in ICT and e-learning. Moreover, we are sustaining the momentum gained in 2004. We are going full blast in fine-tuning decentralization in the SSA hubs, intensifying strategic partnerships, alliances and South-South collaboration, and more importantly, strengthening inter-Center collaboration through the Alliance of Future Harvest Centers of the CGIAR.Annual Reports2005International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid TropicsAnnual Reports

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