Agribusiness and Innovation Platform - ICRISAT

Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP) is public-private partnership initiative from ICRISAT that work towards furthering ICRISAT’s mission by scaling-up its technology and research outcomes through agribusiness ventures, and advocating sustainable interventions with partners so as to benefit smallholder farmers, youth and women in rural community.

The Platform aims to connect with other stakeholders in the agri-innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to foster growth of agribusiness ventures and sharing of knowledge and information, that will help in improving livelihood of the rural community and enhancing contribution of non-farm sector to local economic development.

AIP has four programs: Agri-Business Incubator (ABI), Innovation and Partnership (INP), NutriPlus Knowledge (NPK), and Intellectual Property Facilitation Cell (IPFC).

AIP is part of the Research Program on Innovation Systems for Drylands (RP-ISD) at ICRISAT.