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New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
Partner news | | 25/7/2021
Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 Pre-Summit, CGIAR announces an exciting new research and innovation prospectus to transform food, land, and water systems in a...
MODERNIZING CROP BREEDING TO SAFEGUARD TOMORROW'S POPULATIONS
Partner news | | 10/7/2021
The modernization of crop breeding techniques, coupled with technological leaps and the wealth of genetic diversity contained in genebanks, is crucial to achieving more resilient and efficient farms and lessening the reliance on food...
Data from new Excellence in Breeding report reveals progress on CGIAR’s transformation
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 5/7/2021
A new compilation of data reveals real progress on CGIAR’s crop breeding transformation agenda. CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB)’s first-ever Annual Report focuses on 27 data points showing...
Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
Opinion | Adam Hunt | 29/6/2021
There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts. Excellence in Breeding (EiB) is working with CGIAR partners to identify market segments and align...
Computer simulations are helping CGIAR breeders develop better varieties faster
Impact | Sam Storr | 28/6/2021
In the past, plant breeding has helped avert entire famines by changing a handful of genes in key crop varieties. But today's breeders must meet similar challenges with consistent excellence, making the right decisions...
New platform harnesses data – and unleashes breeders’ time
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 22/6/2021
A bold new data management platform, the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), is helping breeders harness the power of data, save time, and make the best breeding decisions. EiB has just released a faster, more feature-filled version.Crop...
African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with EiB to start using genotyping resources to improve accuracy and efficiency.As breeders strive for higher-yielding, climate-resilient and...
Advances in breeding operations can help deliver vital varieties to smallholder farmers
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 3/6/2021
Public breeding operations teams serving lower income countries need to upgrade their skills and tools, optimize their programs, and deliver better varieties, faster. CGIAR’s new Breeding Operations Network...
New portal for gender-responsive agricultural research for development
Partner news | | 2/6/2021
A new portal launched by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) guides how we can develop critical questions and methods for agricultural research that take these gender differences and power dynamics...
Teaming up for more impactful breeding
| Adam Hunt | 27/4/2021
Breeders, economists, gender specialists, and food technologists are gathering together to advance new approaches to breeding crop varieties that people will want.A two-day online “hackathon” jointly organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the Excellence in Breeding Platform focused on key improvements to the impact of breeding programs. As these clonally-propagated crops are a foundation of food...