2. From Africa and Asia to Latin America and the Near East, there are 805 million people in
the world who do not get enough food to lead a normal, active life.
We can achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. In the world today, we
have the knowledge, tools and policies to feed everyone.
6. Vision
A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics
Mission
To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental
degradation in the dryland tropics
7. ICRISAT Locations
in the Semi-arid Tropics
55 countries
6.5 million sq km
2.5 billion people
Headquarters-
Patancheru,
Telangana,
IndiaESA
Regional
Hub-Nairobi, Kenya
WCA
Regional
Hub- Bamako, Mali
9. Knowledge Sharing and Innovation
• CGIAR Research
Programs
• ICRISAT Research
Programs
• Critical Focus
Areas
Improves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders
Data Services
Information Services
Education Services
Innovations
Foster Greater Convergence
between research and its
utilization in AR4D
Enhancing Research
Improving Operational
Efficiency
Capacity Building
Enhancing Impact
Facilitating Cultural Change
Facilitating information
exchange, linkages, PPP
10. Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating
science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)
Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture
… many more
11. Advances in ICTs and Social Media
By June 30,2014
Facebook boasted 1.32
billion monthly active
users worldwide.
829 m users on
average log on to
Facebook daily, as of
June 2014.
• More than 1 billion
unique users visit
YouTube each month
• Over 6 billion hours
of video are watched
each month on
YouTube—that's
almost an hour for
every person on
Earth, 100 hours of
video are uploaded
to YouTube every
minute
Number of pages:
32,605,026
Number of articles:
4,486,786
Number of files:
828,078
Number of edits:
706,393,946
Number of Users:
21,085,515
Number of admins:
1,416
Agriculture and Rural Development organizations must take
advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms
Digital resources provide potential opportunities
15. Building Classrooms in Knowledge Cloud for Next Generation
Promote Massive Open Online Courses for Agricultural Professionals
16. Agriculture and Allied Areas
In 1960s, the establishment of Agricultural Universities in India, on the pattern
similar to that of the Land Grant colleges of the United States (integration of
education, research and extension), contributed a lot in boosting the
agricultural growth from 51 million tons in 1950 to about 257.13 million tons
(MT) in 2013-14.
The model has shown a direction in reorganizing and strengthening the
agricultural education system in India and also helped in bringing diverse
subjects in the course curriculum integrating provision of hands-on practical
exposure to the student.
Now, the percentage of students pursuing agriculture as an undergraduate or a
post graduate degree or PhD, remains amongst the lowest as a comparison to
the other streams (All India Survey on Higher Education, MHRD). Reasons…
Outdated curriculum,
Unavailability of good quality faculty members
Requirement of reorienting the agricultural education
according to the changing scenarios at national and
international level etc.
.
19. Traditional Classroom trainings Vs ICT mediated
Trainings’
Traditional Classroom Trainings‘
2013
Investments 1 million USD
Reach is 407 participants
AgED Open Course Ware - 2014
Investments USD 900
Reach is 6330 learner participants
from 180+ countries
From Jan to Oct 2014
20. One Agriculture-One Science:
A Global Education consortium
July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, Florida
Sep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, India
Oct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA
21. Virtual Knowledge Series Platform
Knowledge Repository
Launch of National Virtual
Academy for Indian Agriculture
September 4, 2014 ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru
Classroom without Walls
ICT Literacy
(especially on MOOCs)
22. Internal
Students/
Employees
External
Students/
Partners
OER, 3rd Party Apps
EdCast
Mobile App
EdCast
Mobile App
LMS/
MOOC
sites
Import/
Export
Employers
KNOWLEDGE
CLOUDTM
Arc
h
CS
Sus
t
“Pre-Enroll Preparedness”
“Post-Enroll Readiness”
Institutions/ Instructors
Security
National Virtual
Academy for
Indian
Agriculture
Knowledge Cloud Architecture
27. Categorization of Content (16): over GreenSIM
Agriculture
Horticulture
Animal husbandry
Floriculture
Poultry
Irrigation
Fertilizers
Insurance
Banking
Rural health
Government schemes
Market prices
Sericulture
Farmer livelihood
Soil health
Co-operative
Farmers can retrieve the missed voice messages by dialing 53435
35. Experimental hubs: Content Validation
AMS, Women Federation
Organization, Mahabubnagar
RDT, Non Governmental
Organization, Ananthpur
Government, Karnataka
36. Feedback received from farmers
Narmadamma, farmer
from Addakal village
Chandrakala, farmer
from Addakal village
“Last time our whole groundnut crop was destroyed due to
unexpected rain, but this season a voice message received from
Krishi Vani on weather forecast saved our crop as we were able to
harvest three days ahead of the original harvest date. It saved us our
season-long efforts and hard work.”
“We used to take advices and recommendations from
agricultural input dealers and received mixed results. But now
with ICRISAT’s Krishi Gyan Sagar – personalized information
advisory services, we are getting precise application
recommendations in our farms. It saves money and gives us
better yield and income.”
These are two of the 40,000 farmers in 171 villages of India, taking benefits of
the Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani – Powered by the Green SIM project
Voices of Farmers: Impacts
38. What is next: Knowledge to the Poor revolution
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39. Knowledge to the Poor Revolution through
ICT Innovations for a food secure future
Use and Sustain ICT Innovations for establishing effective linkages between
Research – Extension – Education – Markets