Presentation on "Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)" by Dr. Timothy J. Krupnik
Channel: Project CSISA
Date: 2020-09-21

Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia is a long term project with a large team effort across the CGIAR centers across the South Asia. The CSISA aims to demonstrate how science-based analytics, targeting of appropriate agronomic and genetic technologies, multi stakeholder innovation systems, market based approaches and support for policy development can deepen development impact in South Asia's most poverty dense locations. This was founded in 2009 with a focus on Nepal, Bangladesh and India. It was a collaborative investment in a CGIAR consortium by USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The presentation was done by Dr. Timothy J. Krupnik, Project Leader for Bangladesh and Nepal highlighting the achievements of CSISA in last 10 years along with the ongoing activities and scale up plans.