This project seeks to decrease hunger and malnutrition and to increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in South Asia through the accelerated development and inclusive deployment of new varieties, sustainable management technologies, and policies.
The project has eight objectives: 1. Widespread delivery and adaptation of production and post-harvest technologies to increase cereal production and raise incomes. 2. Crop and resource management practices for sustainable future cereal-based systems. 3. High-yielding, abiotic stress-tolerant, and disease- and insect-resistant rice varieties and hybrids for current and future cereal and mixed crop-livestock systems. 4. High-yielding, abiotic stress-tolerant, disease-resistant wheat varieties for current and future cereal and mixed crop-livestock systems. 5. High-yielding, heat-tolerant and disease-resistant maize inbred lines and hybrids for current and future cereal and mixed crop-livestock systems. 6. Technology targeting and improved policies for inclusive agricultural growth. 7. Creating a new generation of scientists and professional agronomists for cereal systems research and management. 8. Project management, communication and impact assessment.