About CSISA: The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA), being implemented by the CGIAR institutions of IRRI, CIMMYT, IFPRI and ILRI, and supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID, was established in 2009 to catalyze sustainable intensification of staple crop production at scale in South Asia’s most important grain baskets while substantially improving rural livelihoods. Operating in rural hubs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, CSISA involves more than 300 public, civil society, and private sector partners including farmer groups, in the development and dissemination of improved cropping systems, resource-conserving management technologies, new stress-tolerant cereal varieties and hybrids, livestock feeding strategies and feed value chains, aquaculture systems, improved policies and strengthened markets. In essence, CSISA provides an innovation-system platform that links a wide range of public, private, and civil society sector programs within and across South Asia.