CABI South Asia-India, Brief Profile

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KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

CABI South Asia - India

Sharbendu BanerjeeDirector Business Development South Asia

January 2013,

Brief Profile


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Centre Overview

Projects & Collaborations

Publishing Activities


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CABI South Asia Centre Overview

CABI is an international organization,established in 1910. It was formerly known as

the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux,

which now operates simply as CABI.

Our Mission

CABI improves peoples lives worldwide by

providing information and applying scientific

expertise to solve problems in agriculture and

the environment

Lose Less , Feed More...


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CABI is a not-for-profit organization

established by a United Nations treaty-levelagreement between 47 member countries.

Global leader in

Agricultural development Agricultural research Infomediary Scientific publishing

Bioservices

CABI


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CABI and its Global ReachWe have 350+ staff across 17 locations worldwide

UK 195 Netherlands 1 Switzerland 22

Bulgaria 1

China 4

USA 3

Costa Rica 1

Trinidad & Tobago 5

Australia 1

Kenya 30

Brazil 2

Malaysia 22

India 10Pakistan 65

Hungary 1 Serbia 1

Cameroon 1


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Membership Benefits

Membership Benefits

Free access to CABI information products

Benefit from free access to CAB Abstracts and GlobalHealth for your Government department

or nominated University in your country via CAB

Direct

Enjoy free access to CAB eBooks and CABICompendia for your Government department or

nominated University in your country via the

Internet (for countries with a UN index number of

less than one).

Free identifications service

Use CABIs expertise, provided by the MicrobialIdentification Service and Global Plant Clinic, for free

identification of up to 10 microbial samples per year

CABIs activities play animportant role in all of the

research activities funded by

ACIAR.Peter Core, Director, ACIAR

Membership

Benefits
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Membership Benefits

Landmarks 1957: Indian Centre of Commonwealth Institute ofBiological control (CIBC) set up

1987: The Centre becomes the headquarters of theNational Biological Control Programme (nowNBAII)

1990s: Partnership with agriculture and forestrysector

2000: An Agreement signed with ICAR

2001: CABIs Office opened on 8 May

2010: Investment plan initiated, new recruitments

2011: Mobile agro-advisory and cyber extension

2012 : Plantwise & Direct2Farm project

55 years of CABIs presence in India


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ICAR CABI Historic Collaboration

CABI and ICAR have enjoyed a very long historyof productive collaboration and indeed India

was a founder country of CABI in 1913

CABI functions as an international extension of Indiasown national capabilities and resources


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Key Activities : 2001 - 2010

Establishment of Quarantine Facility for bio-control agents at ICAR,Bangalore (NBAII)

Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Indian Sub-continent

Biological control of Invasive Alien Species(Himalayan Balsam, Wild Ginger, Red Palm Mites)

NBAIM Enhancement : repatriation of 1450 cultures of Indian origin

Knowledge Management Centre of Excellence(Mobile Agro Advisory with IFFCO)

Plantwise (formerly the Global Plant Clinic)


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Membership Benefits

It is amazing what you can

achieve by

communicating, sharing

and collaborating....

On going

Key themes

Mobile Agro Infomediary

CABI IFFCO 2009 Direct2Farm 2011 GSMA m Farmer Project 2012 CafeMovel 2012

Plantwise

Networking and Partnerships

Training on various modules Clinics, Factsheets and Data Collection India

Bangladesh

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Other Scientific Endeavours

Drafting of crop specific modules Training and agro-advisory services for

Rice health

Management of Invasive Alien Speciesfor Biodivesity protection


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Membership Benefits

CABI

Direct2Farm

Concept

Mobile Agro Infomediary

What do we provide?

Actionable information on crop and livestock

locally relevant and contextualised

linked to local conditions, crop cycles andregulatory environment

derived from CABIs wealth of databases, aswell as National Agriculture ResearchSystem of the countries where we operate

ICT Platform for multidirectional information

exchange

..through our partnerships with mobileoperators and rural agri-service providers


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Direct2Farm Infomediary Schema

Research

Academia

Third party info

Quality Assurance

SOP-s. QC Workflow

Repurposing

CABI Factsheets

Digitalization

Ag. Extension Literature

Farmers(throughMobile

Operators)

Rural Serviceproviders/NGO-s

Information

Aggregation

Content Development &

Quality Assurance

Information

Dissemination

CABI Direct2Farm KR

Real-time data

collection

AnalyticsResearch & Policy Framework


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Membership Benefits

Case Studies

mAgri

GSMA mAgri Program (India & Africa) 1 million farmers in India & 250 thousand in

Kenya, 2012-2014

In consortium with ILRI, Digital Green,Handygo (India), FVR Int,, Airtel (Kenya)

CafMvel

mExtension for 150 thousand Coffee Growersin India

Funded by Coffee Board of India &International Coffee Organization, CFC

Pilot 2012-2013

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL)& Airtel (India)

Content provision since 2009

Current reach ~ 4 million farmers in India

CABI Direct2Farm in Action


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Plantwise in the Region


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Membership Benefits

India

Bangladesh

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Selection of National Coordinators inthe region (from Ministry of

Agriculture)

Identifying the Local Implementing

organizations

Partnership Agreements signed

Training on Plantwise modules

Establishing Plant Clinics

Data collection

Preparing factsheets

Activities undertaken


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Membership Benefits

Bangladesh

Ministry of Agriculture

NGOs (AAS, Sushilan, SPIED)

India

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

NGOs (MSSRF, SEWA, TERI, GLT)Nepal


NGOs (SECARD), Academia (HiCAST)

Sri Lanka


Partnerships


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Publishing Book commissioning (South Asia

edition

CABI online databases

Strategy

Increasing penetration of CABIsonline products

Developing a sustainable model forpublishing low cost print and

e-products

Activities


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Looking to the

future

Strategic Focus Areas

Agro-info management

Agri-extension (Cyber extension)

Plantwise implementation / expansion

Invasive Species management

Enhancing engagement with countries in

South Asian region

SPS (Capacity building)

Publishing


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Major Events Organised (2011-12) Strengthening Veterinary

profession in India to improve

Food Security (with ICAR)

SPS Expert Consultation meeting(with MoA/NIPHM)

Orientation on Invasive Species

Compendium (with MoA)

Mobile workshop (Stakeholders)

Asia Pacific Regional Consultation (

International Conference on PlantHealth Management (Along with

PPAI, CPF,ICAR, ANGRAU NIPHM,

NBPGR & ICRISAT)


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