Memorandum of Understanding between The United Nations World Food Programme and The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

This MOU is intended to provide a framework for the partnership between WFP and ICRISAT in the United Republic of Tanzania. 

WHEREAS WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impact of climate change.

WHEREAS ICRISAT, a non-profit, non-political International Organization, conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide range of partners around the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometres of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid tropics are home to over 2 billion people, with almost 650 million of these the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these poor people to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agriculture.

 

The Parties share a common vision of ending hunger and malnutrition, resilience building and promoting sustainable agriculture and rural transformation, with a particular focus on smallholder farmers as a critical global imperative and a pivotal element of the entire 2030 Agenda.

ICRISAT and WFP now wish to formalize their intent to operationalize their partnership and increase the effectiveness and impact of WFP and ICRISAT’s work to boost community resilience, productivity, and sustainability of food systems in semi-arid regions of Tanzania through joint implementation of natural resource management interventions.