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Impacts Achieved and Challenges Ahead

• The Challenges of the SAT
• The Semi-Arid Tropics
• The Environment
• The Mission
• Impact Highlights
• Leadership in Research
• The Dimensions of Impact
• The Challenges Ahead

The Challenges of the SAT

The Semi-Arid Tropics

ICRISAT has a global mandate for agricultural research in the SAT

 • Home to one-sixth of the world’s population

 • Stubborn, widespread poverty: more than 300 million poor

 • Half the population lack access to even basic health and nutrition

         • Most farmers operate at subsistence level, aiming simply to survive

 • Persistent drought: 2 years out of 5 in many areas

 • Infertile soils

 • Huge loss of top soil due to erosion

 • Climate change—desertification, increasing rainfall variability.

 

The Mission

ICRISAT and its partners are working together to

 • Alleviate poverty and hunger

 • Develop technologies for sustainable increases in food production

 • Control plant pests and diseases

 • Protect the environment through better management of natural resources

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