Breeding Resources Initiative lays out ambitious plans for support and services
Operations and phenotyping
Gender inclusion checklist for breeding operations on farm stations
Gender inclusion must be supported at all levels within an organization. This checklist will help you acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of your organization’s gender inclusion initiatives and measures.
Download the checklist (Word file)
Improvements are generally on five key Action Areas:
Operational Excellence: Standard Work and Plan-do-Study-Act
Having a standard process for performing the work you do is essential to providing quality products and services to your customers. Documenting the current best-known way of doing the work ensures consistency. In this month’s Operational Excellence Webinar, learn about standard work and how to document it.
Breeding Operations Workshops: West Africa EiB-IITA 2022
In this five-day workshop video series, EiB's Breeding Operations Network for Development (BOND) and IITA facilitated operational leads and breeders in the West Africa region to build knowledge, and discuss progress to improve regional breeding operations.
Operational Excellence Webinar: Process mapping and Lean farming in Nigeria
This webinar is one of our monthly Operational Excellence Webinars to support and promote a continuous improvement culture. The webinar begins with a quick review of some behaviors that exist in a continuous improvement culture. Kehinde will lead a session on process mapping that will feature the value stream map.Ben Hartman (Clay Bottom Farms), Chyka Okarter (USAID Nigeria FtF Agricultural Extension & Advisory Services Activity) and Jean-Pierre Rousseau (Winrock International) will present their work in creating Lean farms in Nigeria.
EiB/Corteva Webinar: Health, Safety & the Environment
As part of the BOND network, we explored Corteva's approach to embedding culture and practices of sound health and safety, followed by IITA's operational health and safety practices.
Speakers:
Paige Oliver (Corteva): Seed Product Development Network and Systems Global Leader for Corteva Agriscience™.
Operational Excellence: Root cause analysis and the 5 Whys method
Have you ever become frustrated by facing the same problem over and over again, despite repeated attempts to solve it? This EiB webinar aims to teach methods to get to the root cause of the issues you face in the workplace, and learn about how they have been put into practice in the Crop Health Improvement project at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
New study shows impact of systematizing crop breeding schemes
Digital phenotyping technologies set to take off across CGIAR
CGIAR drone team in a maize field in India (Source: ICRISAT)
New and more accessible digital phenotyping technologies and methods can help breeding programs collect data faster and better. EiB is partnering across CGIAR to expand, accelerate and streamline adoption.
Bayer’s field testing & phenotyping / HSE in Africa
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding’s BOND and Bayer Crop Science look at Bayer’s principles and practices on two key breeding operations issues:
Field testing and phenotyping contributions to breeding programs
Experts from Bayer Crop Science’s Africa Phenotyping Leadership Team provide a conceptual overview of phenotyping. The team will introduce Bayer’s global phenotyping organization and discuss critical concepts, approaches, and best practices associated with field testing and data management.