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ICRISAT to celebrate Earth Day

SANGAREDDY: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) joins more than one billion people in 190 countries across the globe in celebrating “Earth Day 2010”on April 22.

Four decades

Four decades after the first Earth Day, the world is facing more crises than ever before and climate change is one of the greatest challenges.

In an effort to brace the looming perfect storm, a confluence of crises involving climate change, food security, energy crisis, poverty and population explosion, ICRISAT works with strategic partners to meet the challenges of semi-arid agriculture, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists were developing farming systems resilient to shocks, buffering crucial resources like water and nutrients and adapting crops to warmer temperatures and new pest patterns. ICRISAT Director General Dr. William Dar said, in a release here on Wednesday: “The world is now locked into the inevitable changes of climate patterns, and however uncertain those changes might be, farmers must eventually adapt to them.”

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