Suhas P Wani and TeamRegional Director - Asia

Asia Regional Program

Planning Meeting

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

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

1. Our mission to achieve reduce poverty and zero hunger

2. Feedback from satisfied stakeholders

3. Supportive environment

Motivational Proposition

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

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

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

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

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..)

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

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

Thank you!

Join and help us to Transform

Lives of Small Farmers on a

Large Scale