More than 50 representatives from the government, private sector, universities, NGOs, and various other institutions gathered for the
Odisha research and delivery hub expert consultation meeting at the Mayfair Convention Center in Bhubaneshwar, India, on 10 July 2012.
Samarendu Mohanty, program leader for policy and targeting and head of
IRRI's Social Sciences Division, organized the meeting to finalize planned activities of the hub as part of the
Cereal Systems Initiative in South Asia (CSISA) project.
As the project moves into its second phase, plans are in place to expand its activities in the eastern state of Odisha by setting up a research and delivery hub to enable public-private-civil society partnerships for participatory technology development that are relevant and responsive to local conditions and priorities. Inputs from various stakeholders are thus needed to help the CSISA team formulate its work plan in the state.
Represented in the meeting were the
Central Rice Research Institute,
Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture, Directorate of Water Management,
Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology,
BISWA, AID/IRRI Programme,
Digital Green,
G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology,
ICRISAT,
ILRI,
IFPRI ,
CIMMYT,
CIP,
IIT Guwahati,
KIIT School of Rural Management,
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation,
Orissa State Seeds Corporation, Ltd.,
PALLISHREE,
PRADAN, PRAGATI, VARRAT, and the IRRI-CSISA team from IRRI headquarters and the India office.
