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Breeding Resources Initiative: Partner Updates 2023
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 20/2/2023
CGIAR Breeding Resource Initiative (led and managed by Genetic Innovation’s Breeding Research Services unit) sends out periodic updates to inform partners about plans, progress, events and resources. These updates are collated on this page. For more information, please contact: a.hunt@cgiar.orgUPDATE:...
Five strides forward for CGIAR crop breeding resources and services
Impact | Adam Hunt | 24/1/2023
Sitting at the cutting edge of science, the crop breeding domain has been improving and refining tools, technologies and techniques. But adoption by public breeding programs focusing on Africa, Asia, and Latin America has often been slow. This has hindered progress on developing the...
Advanced genotyping in Mozambique to accelerate genetic improvement, conservation and agronomy
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 10/12/2022
CGIAR collaborative efforts are helping Mozambican partners meet food security and environmental challenges. Crop breeding is key to unlocking agricultural potential, and ensuring breeders can access advanced genotyping...
Breeding Resources Initiative lays out plans and progress: video & FAQs
| Adam Hunt | 22/11/2022
As part of CGIAR’s new Genetic Innovation research portfolio, Breeding Resources Initiative (BRI) is already supporting breeders, operations teams, informatics and data experts and others to help CGIAR/NARES breeding networks reach operational excellence. At a recent BRI Town Hall the BRI team laid out its structure, plans, what the team is already delivering...
Breeding Program Modernization: Empowering NARES to transform breeding in East and Southern Africa
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 8/11/2022
In East and Southern Africa, rice consumption and demand are increasing at a faster rate than any other crop. Farmers in this region continue to use old varieties that are vulnerable to climate change. The breeders use a...
IRRI overcomes barriers and bottlenecks towards a rice breeding revolution
Impact | Misha Nicholas | 18/10/2022
Source: IRRI Public breeding is undergoing a slow transformation as it adopts better, faster, more modern technologies and practices – all with the goal of ensuring farmers get the crop varieties they need. With an improvement plan that...
Breeding Resources Initiative lays out ambitious plans for support and services
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 20/9/2022
The new breeding modernization Initiative, Breeding Resources is mapping out its ambitious plans to deliver and institutionalize new tools, technologies and services to CGIAR and national breeding partners. During recent planning meetings at the IRRI...
Groundbreaking data analysis set to sharpen crop breeding investments
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 1/6/2022
Source: CGIAR Gender A groundbreaking new dataset and analysis are set to ensure crop breeders develop new varieties that benefit the world’s most disadvantaged people.The CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB) led a data collection effort across public...
A transformational breeding data management system goes online at CGIAR centers
Impact | Sam Storr | 27/4/2022
This story was initially published at EBS.excellenceinbreeding.orgIn the race to develop more nutritious and climate-resilient varieties, crop breeders have access to enormous amounts of data: managing the operation of trials in different locations around the...