FOCUSfor achieving goal of reducing povertyand zero hunger,to internalize plan for operationalizing an ecosystem to create wealth for small farm holders thru building partnerships as a team, deliberate and strategize the concept of scaling-up as a business model to serve millions of small farm holders,and synergize the work plans of inter-and intra-projects’ teams and intra-programs and build the winning team ICRISAT.

1. Suhas P Wani and Team
Regional Director - Asia
Asia Regional Program
Planning Meeting

2. 1. FOCUS for achieving goal of reducing
poverty and zero hunger
2. WE not I
3. WE are “Go-getters”
4. WALK the TALK
5. Multidisciplinary team with Synergy
6. Connective action
Our Virtues

3.  Demand driven, Science-led, Innovative,
Holistic, and Efficient solutions
Strategy
 Thru Consortium, Participatory Research, and
Skill development
 Leading from Behind with Accountability
 For Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Our Values and Strategy

4. 1. Our mission to achieve reduce poverty
and zero hunger
2. Feedback from satisfied stakeholders
3. Supportive environment
Motivational Proposition

5. Our Model is
 Holistic approach to benefit small farm holders – low-
cost technologies
 Scaling-up is must  Co-creation of Solutions
 A new proposition (building ownership)
 Science-led development (modern technologies)
 International standards (analysis, RS, DEM, water
budgeting, ICT etc.,)
BAU Model Cannot Work to Serve
Bottom of Pyramid
Collaborative capacity > Investment capacity

6.  Build the market for technologies
 Holistic understanding of the process
 Market oriented ecosystem
 Framework that allows private sector and social
actors to act together
 Wide variety of institutions co-exist and
compliment each other
 Co-creation of solutions
 Build Partnerships – We don’t go alone
Building an Ecosystem to Create
Wealth
Building a nodal organization > Investment capacity

7. Blast the Academic Logic Barriers
Change with the Times
(Confront the Brutal Facts)
 Small farm-holders’ potential for technology
absorption is huge
 Create the pull of new technologies
 Calls for Drastic “Forgetting Curve”
 Innovate hybrid solutions
 Serve as a Central Nodal Organization

8.  Igniting transformation
 Who is IMP than what?
Get the right people on bus and the wrong people off-
the bus – right people in the right seats and they will
figure out where to drive
 Have unwavering faith that we can and will succeed
in the end
 Culture of discipline – disciplined people don’t need
hierarchy
 Combined culture of discipline with an ethic of
entrepreneurship – Create performance
Get magical alchemy of performance
 Tipping point and continued push but not a planned
restricting, technologies, or a killer innovation
Impact at Bottom of Pyramid

9.  Don’t burden the people who are achieving with
the people who are not achieving
 Don’t carry the load of non-achievers on your
shoulder
 Be in the company of positive thinkers and more
away quickly from people with negative vibes
 Be rigorous but take care of team members
 Do not let wrong people hang around
 Harness the strengths for the benefit of the team
Impact at Bottom of Pyramid (Contd..)

10. We have a team with common and
focused vision, meticulous planning
with anticipatory management to build
partnerships to serve millions of small
farm holders by creating wealth in a
sustainable manner

11. Objectives
1. To internalize plan for operationalizing an
ecosystem to create wealth for small farm
holders thru building partnerships as a team;
2. Deliberate and strategize the concept of
scaling-up as a business model to serve
millions of small farm holders; and
3. Synergize the work plans of inter- and intra-
projects’ teams and intra-programs and build
the winning team ICRISAT

12. Thank you!
Join and help us to Transform
Lives of Small Farmers on a
Large Scale