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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...