ICRISAT is proud to be celebrating its golden jubilee in 2022 and with it fifty years of scientific research. Our advances in agricultural and social science continue to transform dryland communities across Asia and Africa by reducing poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and environmental degradation.
Since 1972, ICRISAT has worked tirelessly on behalf of the 2.1 billion people who call the drylands home. These are regions that exhibit some of the harshest and most unforgiving conditions and lowest human development outcomes to be found anywhere on the planet.
And while the world continues to grapple with climate change, geopolitical shifts and pandemics, there sadly remains one constant that incrementally increases with each new shock – hunger. Tragically women and children are most affected. In answer to these challenges, ICRISAT has delivered landmark varietal releases of crops across Asia and Africa vital to food security in order to register sustainable impacts in improving dryland agri-food systems and make farming more profitable.
The awarding of the Africa Food Prize 2021 to ICRISAT is but one of several valued accolades that validates our approach to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and with it a brighter future for dryland communities.
Our success has been one defined by partnerships – people, organisations and nations of goodwill working in unison for a common goal. We thank our partners, funders and supporters, whose unwavering confidence in us, have spurred this journey spanning five decades. As we look to the next 50 years, we take this special occasion to invite you to partner with us through some of the opportunities below.
Dr Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes
Director General, ICRISAT
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International conference on “Innovations to Transform Drylands”
Sponsorship Categories
Sponsorship packages have been specially designed to provide opportunities for sponsors to:
- Showcase their brand and connect with key global audiences
- Demonstrate their support for agriculture and crop production in the drylands of Asia and Africa
- Demonstrate their expertise in strengthen value chains, food processing and food safety, mainstreaming nutrition and ensuring food security for dryland communities
- Meet key influencers and decision makers in the global agricultural arena
- Develop and expand networks across industry and academia
- Outreach to the global media and be promoted on social media
Silver
Platinum
Gold
bronze
Platinum
- Corporate branding on the stage backdrop
- Corporate branding on the official website with a blog post
- Co-branded media release and feature story of choice with ICRISAT
- Corporate branded standees
- Continual playing of your corporate video
- Development of sponsor video, dedicated sponsor page, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter posts during the event
Gold
- Corporate branding on the stage backdrop
- Corporate branding on the official website with a blog post
- Co-branded media release and feature story of choice with ICRISAT
- Corporate branded standees
- Development of sponsor video, dedicated sponsor page, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter posts during the event
Silver
- Corporate branding on the stage backdrop
- Corporate branding on the official website
- Corporate branded standees
- Mention in all ICRISAT media outreach
Bronze
- Corporate branded standees
- Mention in all ICRISAT media outreach
For details regarding available sponsorship slots and other partnership opportunities at ICRISAT 50 events, contact Senior Scientific Officer Mr. Nilesh Mishra M.Nilesh@cgiar.org
International conference on “Innovations to Transform Drylands”, 21 – 23 February 2023
The conference aims to bring global experts from research, academia, industry, policymakers and NGOs to brainstorm the way forward and coalesce new and innovative approaches and scientific innovations to address the challenges faced in the drylands.
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ICRISAT is holding an international conference “Innovations to Transform Drylands” from the 21-23 February 2023 at its headquarters in Hyderabad, India. The conference will bring together global experts from research, academia, industry, policymakers and NGOs to coalesce new and innovative approaches and scientific innovation to capitalize on the opportunities while addressing the challenges inherent in the drylands.
Why the Drylands?
Drylands cover about 41% of the earth’s land surface and are inhabited by more than 2 billion people who rank among the poorest of the poor globally. Poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, frequent drought, and environmental degradation are widespread features of the drylands and adversely impact those who live there. About 60% of the total arable land in South Asia is classified as dryland, while the corresponding figure for sub-Saharan Africa is around 70%.
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the challenges inherent in these regions and has disrupted global efforts to achieve the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which envisions addressing food and agriculture security, livelihoods and the management of natural resources among other SDGs. This urgent situation calls for sustainable efforts to transform dryland agriculture and with it the livelihoods of millions through new frameworks of cooperation, partnerships and innovations.
This year ICRISAT is celebrating its golden jubilee. For fifty years ICRISAT has been a global leader in agricultural science which has positively impacted millions of people who call the drylands home.
Our 50th anniversary was inaugurated by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, and other dignitaries in early February 2022. ICRISAT with its five decades of scientific legacy and impact is well positioned to significantly deliver tomorrow’s solutions, today. We invite you to join us on our journey for the next fifty years.
Contact
Victor Afari-Sefa (Conference Secretariat)
International Conference on Innovations to Transform Drylands
ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India, 502324
Email : icrisatic50@cgiar.org
Agripark 2023
ICRISAT will also be staging Agripark 2023 – a one-day globally reaching exhibition to showcase innovations in dryland agriculture. ICRISAT invites applications from interested exhibitors working in dryland agri-food systems from seed companies, processing companies, NGOs, food producers, farm machinery manufacturers, research organizations, agritech companies and associated organisation to not only be a part of this exciting exhibition but to showcase your brand to the world!
For more information on this opportunity, please contact the Director of Communications Ramon Peachey on R.Peachey@cgiar.org
# Any other donation amount is welcome.
In celebration and recognition of our 50 years of work in the drylands since 1972, ICRISAT is seeking to raise $50 for the 50 years of impact that we along with our partners and donors have made to the lives of the poorest of the poor.
We call it $50 for 50 but we know it to be so much more – as in 2022 with the global challenges upon us all, every dollar will go to work in combatting hunger and malnutrition, especially for women and children.
As a global knowledge leader that has delivered several agricultural world firsts, our success has and continues to be undergirded by your generosity.
As a valued ICRISAT supporter we invite you to donate $50 to celebrate 50 years of impact (or any amount which will be gratefully received and acknowledged).
Your donation will help us continue to deliver the scientific advances that are reducing poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation. Should you opt in, your name or organisation’s name will be added to the 50th anniversary page of a new ICRISAT website to showcase your support.
Every dollar of your donation will go towards ICRISAT’s work in delivering those scientific advances that continue to transform dryland farming communities across Asia and Africa.
ICRISAT in the beginning
ICRISAT takes shape
1970s Attention on aflatoxin
1972 ICRISAT gets a logo
1975 Village Level Studies
1976 A Watershed moment
1979 First farmers' day
1979 Genebanks
1979 First marker-assisted pearl millet
1983 First ICRISAT varieties released
1983 Queen Elizabeth II visits ICRISAT
1989 Short-duration chickpea
1991 World’s first hybrid pigeonpea released
1994 Microdosing starts in Niger
1994 Sowing seeds of hope
1996 First CGIAR King Baudouin Award
1996 Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug visits ICRISAT
1999 Start of core and mini core germplasm collection
2000 Hybrid Parents Research Consortium
2000's Boost to infrastructure
2004 Guinea race hybrids for West Africa
2006 First CGIAR science award
2006 ICRISAT adopts IGNRM research strategy
2007 Ramadjita Tabo shares Nobel Peace Prize
2007 Pro-poor BioPower strategy devised
2008 World’s first commercial pigeonpea hybrid
2009 Platform for Translational Research on Transgenic Crops
2010 New Inclusive Market Oriented Strategy for 2020
2010 ICRISAT joins Molecular Breeding Platform
2011 Corporate Social Responsibility activities begin
2011 ICRISAT-led global team cracks pigeonpea genome
2012 First marker-assisted sorghum varieties released in sub-Saharan Africa
2012 Promoting women entrepreneurship
2012 Pigeonpea breeders develop a new CMS system
2012 Providing knowhow to set up India's first private sector seed bank
2013 Bill Gates visits ICRISAT
2013 High-iron biofortified pearl millet released in India
2013 ICRISAT Ambassadors of Goodwill launched
2013 Two ICRISAT-led CGIAR Research Programs launched
2013 Genome sequence of 90 chickpea lines decoded
2014 New significant investments in Africa
2014 First Agribusiness incubator in West Africa
2014 First peanut genome sequenced
2015 Finger millet now a mandate crop
2015 Digital Agriculture initiatives launch
Caption: Dr David Bergvinson exchanging the MoU with Mr Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Minister for Agriculture, Telangana State. Also seen are Mr KT Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology & Panchayat Raj, Mr C Parthasarathi, Secretary and Agri Production Commissioner and others.
2016 Popularizing millets through product development
2016 First genome code of cultivated peanut cracked
2016 First Machine-harvestable chickpea variety released
2016 A new sowing application for farmers
2016 Smart Food initiative
2016 Working in synchrony with the SDGs
2017 Innovation hub for agri-tech entrepreneurs
2017 Pigeonpea genome re-sequenced
2017 Two new machine-harvestable chickpea varieties released
2017 Plant disease and pest diagnostic app released
Pearl Millet Genome Sequence
Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method (LAMP)
ICRISAT’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Inauguration of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of ICRISAT by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi
Past Event
ICRISAT 50th Anniversary Celebrations and Round table on Partnerships and Funding for Sustainable Agriculture
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ICRISAT’s 50 year anniversary celebrations on 5th February 2022.
As part of this year-long celebration, ICRISAT has organized a roundtable discussion on 28th Mar 2022 at ICRISAT HQ in Hyderabad, India (1 pm IST – 2:15 pm IST)
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a pioneering, international scientific research for development organization, specializing in improving dryland farming and agri-food systems. The Institute was established in 1972, by a consortium led by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundation and with the support from the Government of India. ICRISAT works with global partners to develop innovative science-backed solutions to overcoming hunger, malnutrition, poverty and environmental degradation on behalf of the 2.1 billion people who reside in the drylands of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.