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Team ICRISAT is Outstanding: A Compendium of Speeches and Presentations by William D Dar January–December 2007

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Title Team ICRISAT is Outstanding: A Compendium of Speeches and Presentations by William D Dar January–December 2007
 
Creator Dar, W D
ICRISAT, -
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description I am a member of the Indian
Administrative Service from 1970
and am generally based in Andhra
Pradesh. In the past decades, I
had several occasions to interact
with the International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-
Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), first as an
outsider and for the past year and
a half, as a Member of the Board
of this institution. Earlier, I had
occasion to notice with
considerable dismay, certain
managerial and cultural traits in
ICRISAT, which were wholly unacceptable and even offensive. But
that was in the past.
Under the able leadership of Dr William Dar, and in large measure
due to his relentless efforts, ICRISAT has grown into an
organization which the international community can be proud of.
The team spirit, the determination and the sheer quality of the
research which this institution has now been recognized for,
augurs well for the future. It is undoubtedly Dr William Dar’s
initiatives which have brought out such a welcome change in the
institute.
When I first joined the Board, I was struck by the fact that the
focus of the Board and its research programmes were largely to
address the concerns of CGIAR rather than the concerns of those
directly engaged in the semi-arid tropics.
As Member of the Board, it is my opinion that such an approach
was prescriptive rather than participatory. The world of tomorrow
which all of us are striving to build in our own humble ways, will
surely be an inclusive world. The development of a constant
evolutionary mode of learning in order to produce global public
goods of particular significance to the semi-arid tropics, will need
such inclusive approaches and that is what Dr William Dar has so
richly enabled....
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2008
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6485/1/J547_07_Team_ICRISAT.pdf
Dar, W D and ICRISAT, - (2008) Team ICRISAT is Outstanding: A Compendium of Speeches and Presentations by William D Dar January–December 2007. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.