CABI South Asia - India

Brief Profile
Sharbendu Banerjee Director Business Development South Asia January 2013,

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 Centre Overview

Projects & Collaborations

Publishing Activities

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...

CABI
CABI is a not-for-profit organization established by a United Nations treaty-level agreement between 47 member countries.

Global leader in

Agricultural development Agricultural research Infomediary Scientific publishing Bioservices

CABI and its Global Reach

We have 350+ staff across 17 locations worldwide
UK 195 Netherlands 1 Switzerland 22 Hungary 1 Serbia 1

USA 3

Bulgaria 1

Costa Rica 1

China 4

Trinidad & Tobago 5

Malaysia 22

Brazil 2

Australia 1

Cameroon 1

Kenya 30

Pakistan 65

India 10

Membership Benefits

Membership Benefits
Free access to CABI information products
Benefit from free access to CAB Abstracts and Global Health for your Government department or nominated University in your country via CAB Direct Enjoy free access to CAB eBooks and CABI Compendia for your Government department or nominated University in your country via the Internet (for countries with a UN index number of less than one).

Membership Benefits

CABIs activities play an important role in all of the research activities funded by ACIAR.
Peter Core, Director, ACIAR

Free identifications service Use CABIs expertise, provided by the Microbial Identification Service and Global Plant Clinic, for free identification of up to 10 microbial samples per year

55 years of CABIs presence in India

Landmarks

1957: Indian Centre of Commonwealth Institute of Biological control (CIBC) set up 1987: The Centre becomes the headquarters of the National Biological Control Programme (now NBAII)

Membership Benefits

1990s: Partnership with agriculture and forestry sector 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

ICAR CABI Historic Collaboration

CABI and ICAR have enjoyed a very long history of productive collaboration and indeed India was a founder country of CABI in 1913
CABI functions as an international extension of Indias own national capabilities and resources

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)

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 Species for Biodivesity protection

Membership Benefits

It is amazing what you can achieve by communicating, sharing and collaborating....

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 and
regulatory environment

Membership Benefits

derived from CABIs wealth of databases, as

well as National Agriculture Research System of the countries where we operate

ICT Platform for multidirectional information

exchange ..through our partnerships with mobile

operators and rural agri-service providers

Direct2Farm Infomediary Schema

Information Aggregation Content Development & Quality Assurance
Digitalization

Information Dissemination

Ag. Extension Literature Academia

Repurposing

CABI Factsheets
Quality Assurance Rural Service providers/NGO-s Farmers (through Mobile Operators)

Research

SOP-s.

QC Workflow

CABI Direct2Farm KR
Third party info

Research & Policy Framework

Analytics

Real-time data collection

CABI Direct2Farm in Action

Case Studies

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 Growers in India Funded by Coffee Board of India & International Coffee Organization, CFC Pilot 2012-2013

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mAgri

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) & Airtel (India) Content provision since 2009 Current reach ~ 4 million farmers in India

Plantwise in the Region

Activities undertaken
Selection of National Coordinators in the region (from Ministry of Agriculture) Identifying the Local Implementing organizations

Membership Benefits

Partnership Agreements signed

Training on Plantwise modules Establishing Plant Clinics
India Bangladesh Nepal Sri Lanka

Data collection
Preparing factsheets

Partnerships
Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture NGOs (AAS, Sushilan, SPIED) India Indian Council of Agricultural Research NGOs (MSSRF, SEWA, TERI, GLT) Nepal Ministry of Agriculture NGOs (SECARD), Academia (HiCAST) Sri Lanka Ministry of Agriculture

Membership Benefits

Publishing

Activities
Book commissioning (South Asia edition CABI online databases Strategy
Increasing penetration of CABIs online products

Developing a sustainable model for publishing low cost print and e-products

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

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 Plant Health Management (Along with PPAI, CPF,ICAR, ANGRAU NIPHM, NBPGR & ICRISAT)

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