Greenphalettm for Empowering Small Farmers Experiences from Icrisat

Abstract

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) have once again underlined the importance of agriculture development if want to achieve global food & nutrition security and end poverty.  The demand for food is expected to continue to grow as a result both of population growth and rising incomes and the world will need to produce 70 percent more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 (FAO). The current yields in the smallholder farmers' fields are well below their potential; the yield gaps vary by anything between 100-300% across different crops.