?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F7257%2F&rft.title=Inclusive+Market-Oriented+Development+(IMOD)&rft.creator=ICRISAT%2C+-&rft.subject=Agriculture-Farming%2C+Production%2C+Technology%2C+Economics&rft.description=During+2010%2C+we+conducted+an+in-depth+review+of+ICRISAT%E2%80%99s+strategy+vis-a-vis+dryland+agriculture+in+Asia+and+sub-Saharan+Africa%2C+with+its+marginalized%2C+resource-poor+and+perennially+shock-prone+communities.+ICRISAT+challenged+this+pessimistic+view+and+found+that+the+ingenious+and+resourceful+dryland+farmers+can+indeed+increase+their+crop+productivity+and+incomes+by+several-fold+while+improving+the+resilience+of+their+lands+and+livelihoods+by+applying+scientific+innovations+backed+up+by+adequate+policy%2C+marketing+and+other+support+services.%0D%0AThe+result+was+a+recognition+of+the+need+for+market+connections+to+extricate+the+highly+vulnerable+subsistence+farmers+out+of+poverty.+It+was+strongly+felt+that+harnessing+markets+for+smallholder+farmers+combined+with+research+for+development+to+improve+systems+for+managing+risks+would+bring+them+into+the+mainstream+to+take+part+in+and+benefit+from+development.+Thus+was+born+our+Inclusive+Market-Oriented+Development+or+IMOD+strategy+to+2020.%0D%0AIMOD+is+about+producing+surpluses+that+can+be+stored+as+food+to+serve+as+a+buffer+in+times+of+hunger+and+sold+to+markets.+Income+from+marketed+produce+enables+farm+families+to+purchase+more+food+when+needed%2C+including+inputs+such+as+seeds%2C+fertilizer%2C+labor%2C+tools%2C+livestock%2C+insurance+and+education.+These+will+further+raise+farm+productivity%2C+triggering+a+series+of+investments+leading+to+economic+growth.+As+this+is+sustained%2C+it+creates+a+self-reinforcing+pathway+to+prosperity.%0D%0AICRISAT%E2%80%99s+mission+is+to+help+the+world+to+reduce+poverty%2C+hunger%2C+malnutrition+and+environmental+degradation+in+the+dryland+tropics+of+the+developing+world.+We+do+this+through+partnership-based+agricultural+research-for-development.+What+follows+is+a+detailed+account+of+what+made+us+re-examine+our+strategy%2C+and+the+exciting+renewal+that+our+new+strategy+represents.&rft.publisher=International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics&rft.date=2013&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F7257%2F1%2FIMOD_1-28_2013.pdf&rft.identifier=++ICRISAT%2C+-++(2013)+Inclusive+Market-Oriented+Development+(IMOD).++Documentation.+International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics%2C+Patancheru%2C+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India.+++++