1. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet Timothy J. Dalton, Director Nat Bascom, Assistant Director College of Agriculture Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506

2. Feed the Future and Innovation Labs Awarded $13.7 million July 23, 2013-July 22, 2018

3. Why Focus on Sorghum and Millet? 400-500 million people worldwide rely upon these crops Key climate-resilient crop Target countries – 34+ million sorghum and millet farmers – $0.40/pp investment Wolfram Schlenker and David B Lobell 2010 Environ. Res. Lett. 5 014010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014010

5. Partnering in Collaborative Research Focus Countries Senegal – Pearl Millet and Sorghum Niger – Sorghum and Pearl Millet Ethiopia – Sorghum Areas of Inquiry Genetic Enhancement of Sorghum and Millet Production Systems Management Market Development and Added-Value Products Research Cross-cutting – Gender – Environment – Nutrition

6. Mechanism for Collaborative Efforts 2013-2018 Leader with Associate Award – Approximately $8.2 million allocated to grants Research Human/institutional capacity development – Associate award ceiling of $10 million Broader geographical focus and objectives 8-12 projects selected through NSF-style review using a Technical Advisory Committee

7. RFA/Proposal Development Proposals need to respond to national priorities – Reports on national priorities will be posted on SMIL website – Larger team efforts – Spanning areas of inquiry – US, African institutions? Dryland Cereals CRP? Searchable database for collaborators in Senegal, Niger and Ethiopia

8. RFA/Proposal Development September – Stakeholder priority setting in Senegal and Niger October – RFA distributed – Concept note phase 4-5 pages November – Full proposal phase of those selected (no guarantee of funding) December – Final Selection January 2014 – Project team meetings – Contracts/Funding in Q1 2014

9. Information on Program Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab website is in development – smil.k-state.edu Regular eNewsletter to be distributed INTSORMIL website will stay up for 1 year INTSORMIL documents will be archived at the University of Nebraska Digital Commons – digitalcommons.unl.edu digitalcommons.unl.edu

10. Contact & Questions? Tim Dalton 785-477-8239 tdalton@ksu.edu Nat Bascom 785-532-6309 nbascom@ksu.edu