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ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights

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Title ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights
 
Creator ICRISAT, -
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description How can we, our partners and society as a whole spark a transformative dynamic that reaches hundreds
of millions of poor? In these times of constant change, how can we change and re-orient ourselves to
continue to ask the right questions and fi nd appropriate long-lasting solutions? These are the questions
we, as ICRISAT, recently posed when defi ning our strategic plan for 2011–2020. Our process to answer
this question resulted in Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD) – a unifying conceptual
framework that has at its heart the ability to create opportunities for farmers to reinvest in agriculture by
harnessing the power of markets.
This year’s Eastern and Southern Africa Annual Report goes beyond accounting for our work at the
project level. Instead, we show how various themes and work areas across disciplinary and project
boundaries merge into a higher level narrative illustrating the processes that drive the creation of
sustainable change. We present three examples that have already been started with markets as their core
inspiration.
Work done in Ethiopia on chickpea describes highly complex value chains with numerous players and
steps between the farmer and the fi nal consumer in countries far from Africa. The core lesson here lies
in understanding international market needs, facilitating local markets, and providing farmers with the
right germplasm to access these markets. The story on groundnuts in Malawi describes how challenges
in market access can be solved through local level collective action and also exemplifi es ICRISAT’s
role and responsibility to fi nd solutions to associated problems such as afl atoxin. Finally, the story on
the systems approach followed in Zimbabwe illustrates how livestock markets stimulate technology
adoption and reinvestment in both crop and livestock production, resulting in more resilient mixed
systems.
This report illustrates IMOD in action. IMOD helps to create market-based incentives for improving
technology adoption and facilitating eff ective value chain development; it also defi nes the role of
upstream research and provides a framework that dire cts our research to address the needs of the poor.
The systems perspective through the lens of IMOD is ICRISAT’s most promising answer to igniting a spark
of transformation that will reach many thousands in the semi-arid tropics.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6134/1/ESAResHighlights2011_2012.pdf
ICRISAT, - (2012) ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.