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International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
“The International Crops Research Institute for the
Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a nonprofit,
non-political organization that does innovative
agricultural research and capacity building for
sustainable development with a wide array of
partners across the globe. ICRISAT's mission is to
help empower 600 million poor people to overcome
hunger, poverty and a degraded environment in the
dry tropics through better agriculture. ICRISAT
belongs to the Alliance of Future Harvest Centers of
the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR).”
“ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru (25 km from
the city of Hyderabad) in the State of Andhra
Pradesh in central India. ICRISAT Centers in Mali,
Zimbabwe, and Nairobi provide hubs for staff based
at seven locations across Africa and Asia (see map).
ICRISAT staff travel extensively from these centers
to work with partners across the semi-arid tropics
(SAT) of the world.”
Mission
“To help the poor of
the semi-arid tropics through
Science with a Human Face
and partnership-based research for development to
increase agricultural productivity and food
security, reduce poverty, and protect the
environment in semi-arid production systems.”
Go to
ICRISAT’s website.
Genetic resource activities
“ICRISAT's Genetic Resources Unit is responsible for
assembly, characterization, evaluation, maintenance,
conservation, documentation and distribution of its
five mandate crops (sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea,
pigeonpea and groundnut) and their wild relatives.”
In addition, “ICRISAT also conserves, characterizes, and
promotes the utilization of six small millets
(finger-, foxtail-, barnyard-, kodo-, little-, and
proso millet) that have regional and
location-specific importance and as such classified
as under-utilized crops.”
Currently, the genebank holds
over 110,000 accessions of chickpea, groundnut,
pearl millet, pigeon pea, sorghum and minor millets
in trust for the world community under agreements
signed with the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO) on behalf of the Governing
Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture.
For more information about the collections held by
ICRISAT, go to
ICRISAT’s website.
Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources
Each of the CGIAR Centres has a representative on
the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources,
SGRP’s steering committee. The Committee sets the
strategy and priorities for SGRP and meets annually
to review its workplan.
To find out who is ICRISAT’s representative, please
go to our
Contacts page. |
The CGIAR System
Africa Rice Center (WARDA)
Bioversity International
CIAT
CIFOR
CIMMYT
CIP
ICARDA
ICRISAT
IFPRI
IITA
ILRI
IRRI
IWMI
World Agroforestry Centre
WorldFish Center
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