- Help halve rural poverty by increasing farm incomes through more productive, stable, diverse and profitable crops and crop products,
- Help halve hunger by contributing innovations that increase yields by 30% on a wide scale and through policy advice that stabilizes food prices and availability,
- Increase resilience of dryland farming through innovations that stabilize, safeguard and enhance natural resource capital, biological and systems diversity, and land health.
INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SEMI-ARID TERRAIN
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people, and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these poor people to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agriculture.
ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropic. To achieve this, their mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. Our approach is through partnership-based international agricultural research-for-development that embodies Science with a Human Face.
ICRISAT has set four bold targets in the next ten years that will enormously benefit the well-being of the dryland's poorest people: