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MANILA: In planning for Africa or Asia, you map out what you want to do. The questions are: What are you mapping out for? How do you get there? Most of all, where are you coming from? We can have the answers for ourselves if we learn from the bad and good lessons of ICRISAT in the last 40 years. ICRISAT wasn't always that smart. ICRISAT was in Africa for this year's regional planning meetings for West and Central Africa (WCA) on 22-24 January in Barmako in Mali and on 27-29 January in Nairobi in Kenya. In Barmako, scientists came from the regional and country offices in WCA and from ICRISAT headquarters in India to map out the WCA's research agenda. In Nairobi, the planning meeting was attended by scientists and staff who came from ICRISAT Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as well as from the WCA and ICRISAT India (31 January 2014,  ICRISAT Happenings 1608,  icrisat.org ). Actually, all those ICRISAT scientists and staff came from the same place:  Isla de Caridad  (Isle

MANILA: In planning for Africa or Asia, you map out what you want to do. The questions are: What are you mapping out for? How do you get there? Most of all, where are you coming from? We can have the answers for ourselves if we learn from the bad and good lessons of ICRISAT in the last 40 years. ICRISAT wasn't always that smart. ICRISAT was in Africa for this year's regional planning meetings for West and Central Africa (WCA) on 22-24 January in Barmako in Mali and on 27-29 January in Nairobi in Kenya. In Barmako, scientists came from the regional and country offices in WCA and from ICRISAT headquarters in India to map out the WCA's research agenda. In Nairobi, the planning meeting was attended by scientists and staff who came from ICRISAT Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as well as from the WCA and ICRISAT India (31 January 2014,  ICRISAT Happenings 1608,  icrisat.org ). Actually, all those ICRISAT scientists and staff came from the same place:  Isla de Caridad  (Isle