date:May 16, 2013
search addressing emerging challenges that increase risks and vulnerability of smallholder farmers, particularly in the semi-arid tropics (SAT). Of the 1.4 billion people living in the SAT region worldwide, 560 million (40 per cent) are classified as poor and 70 per cent of the poor reside in rural areas. To be eliminated, it is imperative to improve overall productivity and sustainability of rainfed agriculture.
IFAD-supported grant projects implemented by ICRISAT in the past have either gener