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Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
Opinion | Adam Hunt | 5/12/2020
Originally an EiB Op-Ed published on Farming First.Crop breeding is helping farmers in the developing world produce higher yields and better products under increasingly harsh conditions. This World Soil Day, Breeding Resource Initiative / EiB's phenotypinga and breeding...
Here's how to embed continuous improvement in your work
How to | Adam Hunt | 23/11/2020
By Gustavo Teixeira, Theresa Heitman and Adam Hunt Crop breeding programs are setting an example for how to examine and improve their work – while embedding this process into organizational culture. It's all to better meet the needs of their...
Webinar reveals approaches for breeders to save time and money, cut waste – and deliver for clients
| Adam Hunt | 22/10/2020
How can breeders and other research programs continually improve their processes and products? And how can they ensure they keep a customer focus at the centre of their work?A recent webinar organized by the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB) and Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for...
CGIAR breeding programs need more than just tech upgrades. They need change management
Opinion | Adam Hunt | 15/9/2020
By Hugo Campos, CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) / International Potato Center (CIP)The status quo anchors our minds to the past. Good change management can shake this up. Here are four ways plant...
Plant breeders could let women farmers guide them
| Sam Storr | 3/6/2020
Plant breeders produce new varieties for their customers: farmers. To predict what kinds of new varieties are likely to offer significant benefits to farmers, breeders may turn to their customers to evaluate which characteristics might make a new variety more acceptable. A comprehensive review of many such evaluations suggests that if breeders were to pay more attention to what women need, it could increase the usefulness of...
Breeding for better gender equity
| Sam Storr | 11/2/2020
This blog was also posted by the Gender & Breeding Initiative A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to gender is about to be launched with two breeding programs in Nigeria and Kenya. The pilot study represents an important milestone in a new collaboration between the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB) and the CGIAR Gender and Breeding Initiative (GBI), which is led by the CGIAR...
Change management and behavioral change is key to modernization in CGIAR
Opinion | Sam Storr | 3/9/2019
By Hugo Campos, International Potato Center (CIP) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it...
Digitization survey results announced
| Sam Storr | 28/8/2019
In March 2019, EiB surveyed its members to identify the models of equipment currently used to digitize breeding operations.These include package printers, label printers, barcode readers, electronic data collectors and seed counters that can be used to speed up, standardize and introduce efficiency savings into breeding program operations.The survey results will be used to guide the outreach agenda of EiB module leaders, while the makes and...
Partnering with the seed industry to redefine the Latin American forages market
Success story | Sam Storr | 12/8/2019
Meat and dairy products are central to the Latin American diet, and livestock is a source of income for over 600 million people living on less than US $1 per day around the world. Historically, a lack of...
Transforming CGIAR breeding impact: 3 key points to understand the improvement plan initiative
Opinion | Sam Storr | 16/7/2019
In 2019, all CGIAR Centers are focused on taking breeding program impact to the next level.Each center is developing an improvement plan that identifies key innovations and investments that will...