http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6733 2013-09-16T07:31:58Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/6733/ Switzerland and ICRISAT "Working hand-in-hand to reduce poverty" ICRISAT, - Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics The need to ensure global food security is a perennial challenge that several countries have focused on over the years. Apart from their regular contributions to this cause, the Government of Switzerland also addresses this challenge through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Global Programme Food Security (GPFS), which puts more muscle into SDC’s bilateral and multilateral cooperation efforts. The mission of GPFS is to “influence global food security frameworks, institutions and policies to increase in a sustainable manner the production and productivity of smallholders and to improve the food security of vulnerable populations, particularly women” (SDC GPFS Strategic Framework 2010- 2015... International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 2011 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/6733/1/Switzerland-ICRISAT_May-2011.pdf ICRISAT, - (2011) Switzerland and ICRISAT "Working hand-in-hand to reduce poverty". Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage