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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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