Award for Icrisat chief

William D. Dar, Director-General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), has received the M.S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture for 2013. The award was presented to Dar by K. Kasturirangan, Member (Science), Planning Commission, in New Delhi today. An excerpt from the award citation states, “His work has created great impact on the lives of resource poor farmers. Dar has also actively promoted Public-Private-Farmer partnership linking strongly the end users with the National Agricultural Research System as well as International Agricultural Research Centers.” William Dollente Dar is a citizen of the Philippines and received his doctoral degree from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Prior to joining ICRISAT, he had served as Advisor to the President of the Philippines.