The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) will continue to maintain its headquarters at Patancheru in India, while enhancing its research activities and impact in sub-Saharan Africa.
This was decided at the annual general meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) held at Nairobi, Kenya, in the last week of October.
ICRISAT director-general William Dar said the Institute had accepted the challenge to find a win-win scenario in enhancing its impact in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Asia with a sense of urgency.
It will continue to invest more core resources in SSA while sustaining a response to its stakeholders in Asia, Dar informed.
ICRISAT is one of the 16 international agricultural research Institutes that are part of the CGIAR. The Executive Committee of the CGIAR has stated that maintaining ICRISAT's headquarters in India would be the most realistic move.
At Nairobi, it was also decided that a task force would be constituted by ICRISAT to suggest ways to enhance the institute's research programs and management in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The task force will be mandated to identify win-win strategies to enhance Icrisat
