Strategic Plan

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ICRISAT Strategic Plan 2021-2025

Foreword

s an agricultural research for development institute that represents the

interests of many global stakeholders, and with a goal to deliver real

impacts to smallholder farming families and their communities in the drylands,

this ICRISAT's Strategic Plan 2021-2025 allows us to respond to change while

remaining faithful to our mission. We have had an opportunity to step back and

evaluate, consider and re-calibrate our programs and activities to co-create

a forward-looking approach to continuously improve our strategy to deliver

important results and outputs.

As we prepared new Strategic Plan, there were apprehensions brought about by

the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as this Strategic Plan is released, uncertainties

continue to affect our plans. With people still working from home and no clear

resolution to the changes being imposed upon us from different sources for

the major part of 2021, at times we questions the possibility of making positive

changes with urgency during the last quarter of 2020 moving into 2021. Yet, with

the same global challenges, we realized that there is no better way to use our

efforts but to actively explore opportunities and plan for a vibrant and productive

future. In these times of change and difficulty, our workforce remains our

strongest asset – dedicated, committed to our vision and ready to embrace the

future.

We are pleased to share this five-year Strategic Plan 2021-2025 which builds

on our extensive partnerships, networking and our understanding of the needs

on the ground and sets out our current expertise with our vision for the next five

years of a streamlined, targeted research for development institution, working

closely with our partners and stakeholders in the private and public sectors.

With our unique advantages of expertise in the drylands and our nutritious grain

legumes and dryland cereals that tolerate the vagaries of climate change, the

recent advances in our research for development sphere will usher ICRISAT into

the new changing environment so that we will be highly competitive to play a

significantly greater role in supporting our partners and stakeholders to achieve

their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets.

This fresh perspective through our new Strategic Plan 2021-2025 elevates our

work and positions our science, talent, partnerships and resources to fit into a

dynamic overarching strategy. We are grateful to our stakeholders, collaborators

and partners who helped shape this forward-looking strategic plan.

Jacqueline d'Arros Hughes

Director General

ICRISAT

Prabhu Pingali

Chair

ICRISAT Governing Board

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