ICRISAT GIS & modeling staff are currently engaged in a range of research and development projects, notably:

- the development of an aflatoxin risk early warning system to improve nutrition, health and income in West African smallholder farms (funding: CIDA/CCLF)

- a project on environmental risk management of genetically enhanced sorghums in Mali and Kenya (funding: USAID-BBI/PBS)

- the Desert Margins Program which currently covers Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe (funding: GEF) - website - map

- a Belgium-funded project on operationalizing bio-economic decision support tools to improve the livelihoods of Sahelian smallholder, mostly focused on Niger

- Carbon from Communities: A Satellite View and projects on soil C sequestration in West Africa: Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Senegal (NASA, USAID funding) - map

- CPWF project # 5 on enhancing rainwater and nutrient use efficiency for improved crop productivity, farm income and rural livelihoods in the Volta Basin (funding: Challenge Program on Water and Food) - maps