9 September 2011
No. 1483
Research programs for sustainable food and nutrition security
CGIAR Consortium Board approves CRPs on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals The CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) have ushered in a new era for collaborative researchfor-development (R4D). The CRPs bring together a broad range of organizations to link research with development and ground-level action that improve people’s lives. This approach advances the CGIAR’s vision to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership.
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CRISAT led partners in developing and getting the Consortium Board’s (CB) approval of two CRP proposals – Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals. The two programs are part of 15 CRPs, each led by a Center from the CGIAR Consortium. The CRPs provide new pathways to improved livelihoods, food security, health, and sustainability of smallholder farmers and consumers of developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The CRP on Grain Legumes aims to apply crop improvement and related high-priority value-chain interventions to eight crops – groundnut, soybean, chickpea, cowpea, common bean, pigeonpea, lentil, and faba bean. It seeks to maximize benefits that grain legumes offer to smallholder farmers, especially women, by increasing their incomes, securing their food supplies, improving their nutrition and sustainably intensifying their farming systems. to page 2 ...4