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Strategic<br />
Initiative<br />
SI 3. Smallholder<br />
precision<br />
agriculture<br />
SI 4. Stress<br />
tolerant maize for<br />
the poorest<br />
Partner type<br />
At least five IARCs (CIMMYT, CIAT, ICRISAT, IITA and IRRI);<br />
Universities (Cornell, Stanford, Oklahoma State, North<br />
Carolina, Adelaide); other ARIs (International Plant Nutrition<br />
Institute, ICAR‐India, CAAS‐China and EMBRAPA)<br />
CIMMYT and IITA<br />
NARESs where the target farming systems are important,<br />
including universities; the private sector (i.e. seed<br />
companies and farm implement manufacturers); NGOs and<br />
farmer groups.<br />
Private sector ICT companies<br />
Local and international NGOs and CBOs, extension<br />
providers, NARSs, seed companies and networks (e.g. the<br />
African Conservation Tillage Network), farmer<br />
organizations, regional and international organizations (e.g.<br />
FAO, AGRA)<br />
NARSs and local seed companies in sub‐Saharan Africa and<br />
Asia and in poverty pockets in Central America<br />
CIMMYT and IITA<br />
Partner roles<br />
Specialist knowledge in precision agriculture applied to field situations<br />
Facilitation of the international exploratory diagnostic trials, development of<br />
international database, ensuring appropriate data processing to enable<br />
precision agriculture applications pioneered by research partners<br />
International exploratory diagnostic trials; experimentation with pioneering<br />
precision agriculture implementation<br />
Collaborator in designing, testing and implementing the dissemination of<br />
scalable, GIS‐ and MIS‐responsive information to farmers and extension<br />
providers<br />
Feedback to and scaling out of SI 3 know‐how and information; adoption of<br />
research concepts for generation of more localized information, depending on<br />
their geographical presence<br />
High‐quality collaborative phenotyping, open‐source breeding and testing for<br />
stress‐prone environments, clustered by mega‐environments, agreed trait<br />
priorities and client needs; managed through competitive performance<br />
contracts<br />
Facilitation and participation in collaborative germplasm development with<br />
particular focus on cutting‐edge breeding approaches (doubled‐haploids,<br />
genomics selection, precision phenotyping) for stress environments;<br />
international data exchange and main source germplasm provider; seed<br />
business training and value chain analysis for stress environments; broker for<br />
use of proprietary know‐how, technologies and germplasm<br />
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