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CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2020 now available online
Partner news | | 1/8/2021
The COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a challenging year, placing considerable strain on global food systems. A new online report, CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2020: Growing Resilience for a Better Future, details how CGIAR worked with partners...
In the news | | 26/7/2021
This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation and highlights the terms that can be manipulated to...
Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems
Partner news | | 25/7/2021
This morning, in a virtual panel discussion organized by Agrilinks, a group of breeding and seed experts from the private and public sectors reviewed the ideas presented in a recent White Paper...
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...
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
In the news | Adam Hunt | 27/4/2021
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 security in...
Seeding excellence through breeding excellence
In the news | Adam Hunt | 5/4/2021
Approaches that delivered the Green Revolution are now surpassed by more advanced methodologies and technologies. And adoption of these has moved too slowly in public sector breeding. CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) is tackling this head-on by working across...
Researchers identify optimal strategy to maximize genomic estimated breeding values
Partner news | | 2/3/2021
The ultimate challenge for crop breeders is to increase genetic gain of a crop: literally, to increase the crop’s yield on farmers’ fields. Wheat and maize breeders from the International Maize...
Cues to making crop improvement in Africa gender responsive
Partner news | | 31/1/2021
A cluster of activities are helping make The Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals in Africa (AVISA) Project’s crop improvement efforts gender-responsive. The activities include: Gender responsiveness in...