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ICRISAT’s Vision and Strategy for West and Central Africa (WCA) to 2015

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Title ICRISAT’s Vision and Strategy for West and Central Africa (WCA) to 2015
 
Creator ICRISAT, -
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description ICRISAT WCA, as the apex dryland agricultural research organization for the West and Central Africa, seeks in this
document to refine its strategic thinking towards 2015 from 2010. More so, ICRISAT WCA wishes to exemplify the
importance and growing vulnerability of its mandated area --- the SAT which is home to a substantial majority of the
truly poor people where population growth rates remain very high and the vulnerability of agriculture to the vagaries of
weather and the potential of further climate change is high. Additionally, it wishes to articulate more clearly its
alignment with the MDGs, CGIAR strategic directions and the new CGIAR System priorities. These are seen to be the
necessary basis for future medium term planning (following the Governing Board’s advice in September 2005). These
are viewed presently as suitable frameworks on which a robust research strategy can be formulated to account for
changes in the likely external environment for the foreseeable future.
Likewise, some refinement in earlier thinking is appropriate and timely in response to increasing globalization of
markets, greater environmental insecurity, lower prices for agricultural commodities and higher fuel prices, new
intellectual property right regimes, the growing importance biotechnology, and research partnerships health, ICT/KM
and private sectors and finally the emergence of the Alliance for CGIAR centers (including associated centers such as
AVRDC, IFDC) as a major driver in concerted research actions.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2008
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4065/1/473_2007_ICRISAT_WCA_strategy_Final-10_Oct07.pdf
ICRISAT, - (2008) ICRISAT’s Vision and Strategy for West and Central Africa (WCA) to 2015. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.