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Hemant Nitturkar Project Director Cassava Seed System Project Innovation and entrepreneurship for inclusive agricultural development: Possibilities for India – Nigeria collaboration 5 th December 2017 ASSOCHAM and NACCIMA ABUJA
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Hemant NitturkarProject Director
Cassava Seed System Project
Innovation and entrepreneurship for
inclusive agricultural development:
Possibilities for
India – Nigeria collaboration
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Entity Background
RTB is a collaboration of five international non-profit research centers: Bioversity International, CIAT, IITA, CIRAD and led by CIP. RTB creates a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to addressing challenges in cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, bananas, plantains, and tropical and Andean roots and tubers across regions. Headquartered in Montpellier, France.
Striving to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops. Headquartered in Lima, Peru.
Fifty years of leading public good research to transform African agriculture through work on Cassava, Maize, Cowpea, Soybean, Yam, Plantain, Banana and Cocoa. Head quartered in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Hemant Inclusive development evangelist and India-Africa-phile, currently based in IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria and managing a project to establish an economically sustainable seed system for cassava in Nigeria.
Population dynamics
Imperatives for both countries
INNOVATION
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Our countries cannot create jobs for all, the youth need to create jobs for themselves, and others!
Scarce, costly and dwindling resources mean, frugal innovation is the way forward to make progress!!
Excluded populations too have aspirations; and they are no longer patient!!!
Learnings from India and Nigeria
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WHAT CAN I HELP WITH AND WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?
• India-Nigeria private seed industry collaboration• India-Nigeria seed certification agency
collaboration in cassava• Social entrepreneurship development • CSR development initiatives• Anything that aims at SDGs
development
