For half a century, ICRISAT has been a proud steward of the global repository of genetic resources for millets, sorghum and legumes, held in trust under the auspices of FAO since 1994 and since 2004 implementing the Article 15 agreement with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).
The Board is pleased that the 9th Session of the Governing Body of the ITPGRFA adopted a resolution that calls upon all relevant stakeholders to assist the genebank of ICRISAT financially, as appropriate.
The Board and staff of ICRISAT celebrate a half century of delivering and applying science to address the critical food security needs of more than 2 billion people living in the drylands of Africa and Asia. We embrace the challenges that the future will bring and appreciate the trust that has been placed in our scientists and scientific partners around the world.
We stand ready to build on our collective successes from the past and adapt them to the weighty challenges of the future.
ICRISAT Board Members
Prof Prabhu Pingali, Chair (United States of America)
Dr Himanshu Pathak, Vice Chair (India)
Dr Jacqueline Hughes, Director General ICRISAT (United Kingdom)
Mr Somesh Kumar, Chief Secretary (India)
Prof Yaye Kene Gassama, (Senegal)
Dr Yilma Kebede, (Ethiopia)
Ms Folashade Ogunde, (Nigeria)
Ms Cathy Reade, (Australia)
Dr Laurie Tollefson, (Canada)
Dr Regine Andersen, (Norway)
Dr Jim Godfrey, (United Kingdom)
Dr Bonnie McClafferty, Board Observer (United States of America )
Unable to attend: Shri Manoj Ahuja, Agriculture Secretary India
ICRISAT is a part of the CGIAR family and the wider community of committed international agricultural research centers. While it remains outside the One CGIAR management arrangement based on the consideration that its mandate crops and host countries are best served this way, we look forward to ongoing and future collaboration with all relevant research centres.
